No dialogues, only a handful of actor and actresses involved, just two locations to hold all the major action... every production choice for this movie leads the viewer to pay more and more attention to the quality of visual/sound effects, and to how the story actually unfolds before their eyes. And while sound mixing and special effects are genuinely great, the plot is so full of holes that's almost distracting: did they really spent more than a year without ever addressing the feeling of the father towards the daughter? Why don't they live near the river's waterfall, since the water noises are intense enough to keep the monsters away? Why THE HECK are they having A BABY, in a world where stay SILENT is key to survival? Why don't they just keep a corn grinder activated 24/7 somewhere far away from home? The finale does not help: "dude, monsters that are attracted by noise have only one weakness: noise! Lmao".
Review of A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place
(2018)
Beautiful to look at, a nightmare to make sense of
24 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers