Monday, 16 March 2020

Movie Review - A Quiet Place


The feeling after watching this movie –A Quiet Place……

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Synopsis
"A Quiet Place" is a monster movie, starring director John Krasinski and starring by his wife Emily Blunt, with the theme of doomsday survival. After the trailer was released, the plot was confusing and immediately attracted my attention.

Although it had a small format, there was no big scene, but whether its story or method caused the audience's fear to be maximized by hearing and vision. The overall depressive atmosphere was more effective than many recent high-production commercial movie.

Because the world was occupied by a group of hearing-aware monsters, the whole movie started with no sound. In addition to the fact that there was almost no dialogue between the characters, and the use of soundtrack is rare, so there were not many explanatory dialogue which is often used in movies to help the audience understand the plot. Without these unnatural bridges, only the screen and the expressions of the actors were used to promote the plot. This really tested the director's storytelling skills.
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Description of the plots
Immediately after the opening of the movie, it fully explained the story. The family was searching for supplies in the uninhabited town. Especially the scene on the bridge impressed me most. After the boy made a sound with a rocket, his parents were scared and anxious. The bewildered expression, coupled with the monsters that immediately emerged from the bush, the director simply pulled the audience into the plot by relying solely on the behavior of the characters and the previous newspaper slogan.

Even if it was still impossible to escape the "Jump Scare" that occasionally scares the audience with sudden movements or sounds, but after deducting these bridges, the overall tight atmosphere was still quite successful.

Although the fire caused by the child overturning the oil lamp while playing a board game was immediately extinguished by his father, the small sound made immediately attracted the monster, and the family could only hold their breath while listening to the low noise outside the house. We only know that it has a keen hearing but has not seen the whole picture of the monster. “A Quiet Place” used our unknowns about monsters to pile up fears and it finally exploded.

However, "A Quiet Place" is not only a fight against monsters, the family is also very important. Parents' care and responsibility for their children are very touching. Watching them continue to make sounds to help each other out, and the emotional connection of each person is more and more.

It was clear that the love of the family is more precious because the surrounding environment is so dangerous. After seeing this, we don't care about whether we will be scared or not, but whether their family can survive. Compared to "The Mist" or "The Walking Dead" mostly describes the dark side of humanity. The positive glory emitted by "A Quiet Place" from family emotions is the most precious thing.

Those sounds
After watching the movie, I heard someone say that the sound engineer is really relaxed, but the opposite is true. The sound effect should account for the highest production cost of the movie.

Because the movie is so quiet, every small sound is even more important. How to eliminate all kinds of interference during shooting, including unnecessary sounds such as wind and human voices, and interact with the characters in the film, as well as many in the cornfield. The combination of sounds such as shuttles, wood or sand on the ground is the specialty of the mixer. The time and effort behind it is definitely not as simple as we think.

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Conclusion
Now think about it. Although there were a lot of bugs in the movie, such as why they couldn’t get near the waterfall, or where their electricity came from. But because they were very entertaining, these unreasonable ones were ignored by me immediately.

The design attracted my attention, such as not wearing shoes without patting noises, paving the road with white sand, wooden floors to avoid stepping, or wooden boxes specially designed for babies. The details showed that the director was responsible for the story. Attentively, if you really want to say that something makes me angry, it was probably why monsters don't step on that nail. As for the final open ending, it was more ingenious.

The movie stopped after the mother and daughter saw the other two monsters rushing, giving the audience more imagination, but I believe the expression of the director when the two looked at each other has already given enough answers, there was a kind of confidence and hope to face the problem.

On the whole, "A Quiet Place" set a new height for low-cost horror movies after "Get Out". The tension created by it was full of tension. Emily Blunt, John Krasinski and the two child stars performed accurately. When in place, light and eyes and body language are used to express deep-seated fears, a perfect interpretation of what "silence is better than sound", and the family element not only doesn’t defocus the movie but also among them, the responsibility of parents for their children raised the overall realm a lot. Well, that’s it, “A Quiet Place” is the crystallization of the complement of the thrilling monster and the warm family.

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