“A Quiet Place Part II”: The movie that makes people afraid to breathe out, here again.
In 2018, the audience experienced a silent thriller “A Quiet Place”. The film was 90 minutes long with almost no lines. The audience and the protagonists felt the horror atmosphere in silence, struggling to survive, and rising up to resist.
The director abandoned a large number of character introductions and story advancements, and directly led the audience into the world shrouded in the horror of monsters.
There, a small number of surviving humans live cautiously under the threat of death at any time. The monsters are blind and deaf, relying on sound to kill their prey, and humans have to live a silent life.
The protagonist’s family tried to survive in the valley. After losing two relatives, the mother and daughter accidentally discovered the weakness of the monster. They worked together to kill a monster, but…
There are endless dangers waiting for them outside the window.
The new spectacle of the first part made the audience look forward to the sequel. Finally, on May 28, 2021, the Chinese audience once again experienced the power of silence.
Compared with the first one that bluntly plunges the audience into the atmosphere, the second story tells the origin of the monster and the destruction of the world.
The peaceful atmosphere was broken by sudden visitors from outside, and people ran away bitterly, but the monster was invulnerable and brutal and bloodthirsty.
They have an extremely keen sense of hearing, and with a single sound, they will tear all living creatures apart like lightning.
The protagonist’s family spent 474 days in such an environment. The mother who lost her husband and a son, and her newborn baby in her arms, left the destroyed home with a pair of children and embarked on an unknown journey.
This is a high-concept thriller that uses a quiet way to show tension and terror, and uses human touch and support to show emotions.
The brilliance of the movie is that it does not scare the audience, but makes the audience tense and maintain a high level of tension.
The setting of not being able to make a sound sets the tone for the whole movie; and the hope of defeating the monsters makes the audience full of expectations for the follow-up.
The rhythm of the movie is very good. After a tense scene, it will give the audience a period of relaxation. After the audience adapts, the threat of monsters will emerge again…
Humans just want to coexist with their families, but the shadow of death is everywhere.
The time has just been controlled at 90 minutes, not too long or too short.
The sound is not completely absent, but it is very cleverly controlled. The natural sounds that appear in the wild at the right time, the short-lived communication of humans with aura, the sudden roar of monsters, the normal communication in peaceful areas, and the sound effects of sonic attacks…
Today, when commercial movies can’t wait to be filled with full voices, such silence is particularly powerful.
The sophistication of two-line narrative and editing
The danger in the silence, the power in the silence, the protagonist’s family embarks on an unknown journey with the flames of hope.
The road ahead is long and dangerous. Can they be safe, and can mankind be safe?
The choice to decide life, death and destiny is in front of you, is it desperate to go to the road looking for unknown hope, or to stay in place cautiously and slowly fix it?
Every choice faces a great crisis, and every choice seems to have hope of survival.
The film continues the silence and horror of the first part, but the scope of the map has expanded a lot. The mother and her three children are tired and nervous, worried and hopeful.
As young children grow up, the road ahead is still bumpy.
From the valley to the factory, from the basement to the train car, from the dock to the island.
Corpses and blood can be seen everywhere in the wild, monsters lurking in the shadows, and bandits with ghosts secretly rob passers-by. They run and fight until the dawn of fate.
Under such a prospect, the film has developed an ingenious design-the addition of new characters, the establishment of new spaces, and the extended field scenes, more unknowns, more dangers, and more hopes. This produces.
In the extended story, the audience saw several coexisting lines:
My sister arbitrarily went on her own way, and the neighbor followed afterwards;
The mother went to the town alone to collect supplies, while the injured brother was waiting in the factory with the baby…
The story is divided into four contexts, and the editing methodically shows them one by one and connects each other.
As the plot progresses, the four lines are again converged into a two-line display, and the editing is transformed in two spaces in a targeted manner, mobilizing the audience’s emotions.
One line is looking for hope, one line is left behind and repaired, and both sides are facing the attack of monsters.
The suffocating metal can is as dangerous as the open field, and the silent iron law makes the audience afraid to breathe loudly.
In the end, the two lines both went to climax, and the undisguised sound effects were released in unison. The boys and girls waved their weapons and rushed towards the monsters, intertwined like fate, all the dormancy and patience were for the final desperate blow.
The audience is also waiting for the last-minute release.
There are many details in the second part that echo the first part, such as the bloody nails on the steps, the small graves on the bridge, the bandage wrapped around the mother’s right foot, and the white sand carefully covered around the valley hut.
In a silent environment and a limited time period, so many elements are mobilized, and multiple narrative lines extend and meet and reach a climax at the same time, demonstrating the choreographer’s powerful narrative ability and rhythm adjustment ability.
Director John Krasinski, the director who changed his career, was his third work as a director of “A Quiet Place” that year.
The couple in the film are also family members in reality. The hearing-impaired daughter in the film, the girl born in 2003, is also a hearing-impaired person in reality.
Strict and discreet sequel
In 2018, “A Quiet Place” earned nearly $300 million in box office at a low cost of $17 million.
However, when you look closely, there are still unsatisfactory things. For example, the scene is controlled in a valley hut, and there is no other people during the whole process. Most of the monsters only show huge silhouettes and fuzzy figures.
And “A Quiet Place Part II” obviously increased the cost of investment. I recall the disaster scene in which monsters fell from the sky during peaceful times when the crowd was bustling.
The remaining buildings in the last days and the bones all over the ground, the large monsters that appear at any time, with distinct scales, big mouths, and rushing speed, extremely killing and cruel.
These undoubtedly consume a lot of human cost and special effect resources, but the effect is undoubtedly good.
The director did not squander because of the increase in investment. Instead, he was as cautious as ever in the selection of scenes and the use of special effects.
Now that the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 92%, the increasing number of films in movie theaters all over the world are showing that this sequel is a success again.
The use of light, shadow and color in the film is also bold
Although facing extreme panic, the color of the open air is extremely bright. My sister is walking in the abandoned train, and the sunlight is streaming down from the heights, as if the whole body is shrouded in holiness.
“A Quiet Place Part II” contributed a more complete story than the first one. Humans struggle to survive in terror, and families depend on each other in terror.
Extinction and hope coexist, suffering and gratitude coexist, and silent shouts are everywhere.
In fact, “end-of-the-day movies” are the most suitable to show humanity.
But in “A Quiet Place Part II”, every segment that makes the audience think “the character is going to be dark” ends in the human nature of the protagonist. So besides the horror, this film has the warmth of a family movie.
Even the use of jump scare is not unacceptable. Even the appearance of monsters seems cute after seeing too much.
And the film that touches me most is the description of growth and inheritance.
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The daughter became the heir to his father’s brave will, she was as steady and meticulous as his father.
In the journey of saving the world, she completed the transformation from being “saved” to “saving”. Compared with the self-blaming daughter in the first part, the sister here seems to have grown into a pioneering leader.
The cowardly eldest son also bravely stepped forward in danger.
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The newly joined Murphy is also amazing, and he rarely sees his resolute uncle’s appearance. Several emotional transformations are very appropriate, and the image building is undoubtedly successful. The mother maintained the tenacity of the first game, especially when she was alone in the warehouse against monsters.
The most precious restraint in the first part is also continued in the second part.
“A Quiet Place Part II” is not dry or noisy from beginning to end, from music to the rhythm of the story, all in line with the temperament of this place that can’t make a sound.
When watching in a movie theater, the usual behaviors of people walking around, children making noise, and chatting next door are all absent.
Everyone was moved by the movie together, for fear that the sound would startle the monster.
After the film was over, everyone relaxed and let out a long sigh of relief, and then walked out of the theater unconsciously.
It’s not hard to guess, there should be a third one, right?
