A Quiet Place Review + Small Favor
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AND NOW the review:
I have already told you guys in the podcast and blog that ever since I can recall I have being going to the movies with my mom, alone or with whom ever, as much as I can. It is an escape from reality and an experience all in itself. Something that maybe have not said (or at least I do not recall), is that even when I am a hyper active human being, I VERY MUCH enjoy silence. Just moments of silence, whether it is in the shower, at a spiritual place or even better: in nature. Silence is the great magician, because as soon as you go into your thoughts and think or imagine, it is just YOU with YOU. Silence proves who can and cannot tolerate Themselves way more than any mirror ever could.
Why in the world did this review suddenly get all sorts of serious? Well, because one of the main subjective reasons why I praise this movie as much as I do is because of the movie-going experience I had whilst at the premiere. PLEASE watch this movie with quiet/serious friends. The silence inside the movie theatre makes the movie THAT much better!
The plot is quite simple and powerful: it starts 89 days after apparent apocalypse that happened when blind sound-oriented creatures invaded earth and ravaged everyone in their path and we focus on one family and how their everyday life has changed and is now adapted to surviving in complete and utter silence or else they die.
The theme of family is the most blatant one developed by John Krasinski in his beautifully directed and acted movie. His evident love chemistry with his amazing wife Emily Blunt makes the family so much more believable and the acting by Noah Jupe as the son is amazing. But lets take a minute to value the unbelievable role that Millicent Simmons portrays as the teenager deaf daughter. She is deaf in real life and the truth to her character as someone who does not know how loud the sounds she makes is, comes through to impact her acting to make her emotions very impactful and real.
If I had to criticize this movie, I would say that it had time to spare as a short 90-minute movie that could have been even better by a little more world building. Some flash backs as to how the family was when they could speak and make noise in their day to day; or some sort of breadth to the world that they now had to deal with would have enriched the micro-focus that made this movie so effective.
And the best for last:
The sound editing and sound design of this movie is one of my favorite movie going experiences EVER. People in the theatre stopped breathing when the characters in the movie were in danger, they ate their popcorn and other junk food VERY carefully, ONE man had to sneeze and did so into his sweater or some sort of clothing to mute his noise. It was incredible! And for someone like me, who enjoys silence, it went from a scary movie to an AMAZING SCI-FI THRILLER that swallowed its audience so much that as the movie credits came up and the lights came back on...
Everyone left in silence and awe.
As if the movie was still playing and we had to watch out for monsters...
