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Nigel Paolo Grageda

"A Quiet Place" - The Silent Film that Echoes New Age Scare


The chaos that surrounds "A Quiet Place" is the echoes created by cinema culture. Never has silence been scarier than now. Any trial to blow the whistle will chime the predatory opinions of the majority.

In "A Quiet Place," John Krasinki is a resilient father who stretches his will to protect his family alongside reel and real wife Emily Blunt. They foster their children with the power, security, and intensity of quietness by interacting almost entirely through sign language alone. They evade and fight armored predators which hunt by mere sound in the year 2020 when humanity is half-eradicated.

Kransinki directs and writes the innovative silent film that is an allegory of the public sphere. The protagonist family is the minority that pushes to release their explosive wit. But they are suppressed by the monstrous majority that prey the outskirts of the former's comfort zone. Blunt is the supreme highlight of the flick, showcasing a brilliantly believable performance that proves she is Hollywood royalty.

New techniques of storytelling are bred in "A Quiet Place." Traditional speech is scraped for the interaction of gritty syntax, nicely ribboned in communicative signs. Silence is never safe also, as it deafens the supposed tranquility therefore summoning the impending allure of gigantic creatures that feed on sound.

They may not be faster than the speed of it, though the terrorizing colossus breaks its mold to reach into the quiet shell of the audience's classical perception about scary cinema. "A Quiet Place" might be the early bird in the new age of terror as Kransinki successfully lathers movie-goers with refined culture in theaters.

Screaming in the crowd through an amazingly silent feature will alert all concentrated cinephiles and similar creatures. Quiet attentiveness to the screen may be the secret weapon to slaying the monstrous noise of a trimmed attention span. So sit back, and enjoy a concise yet eventful serving of a new scary movie.

Director: John Krasinski

Trailer © Entertainment Access; YouTube.com

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