This article contains a small amount of spoilers, which does not affect the viewing of the movie.
In 2018, a horror film became popular abroad, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes was as high as 96%.
With the "high concept" setting and immersive experience, this almost "silent film" work made many audiences feel tense emotions in silence for the first time. The most amazing thing is that it allows the entire audience to remain silent at the same time - no one whispers, no one eats popcorn, the auditorium only echoes the sound effects of the movie, and it becomes a "silent place" both on and off the screen.
Now, three years later, the film's sequel has finally returned. Continuing the previous setting, the second part follows the ending of the previous one. It's not easy for a horror sequel to surpass its predecessor, but A Quiet Place 2 actually looks better than the previous one. The hot summer is coming, and this movie may be a good choice for "cooling".
experiential thriller
"A Quiet Place", in fact, the name has already said everything.
It sets the story background to the end of the world. Due to the invasion of some kind of alien monster, there are few human beings left. This monster is very interesting. It has almost no vision and is completely positioned by sound. Even if humans only make a slight noise, these ugly monsters with long feet will immediately come, pierce the heart of the person, and tear the body into pieces.
In the first part, the protagonist's family has actually explored a set of survival rules: the father spreads fine sand on the ground to silence the family who walk barefoot; the communication of the family relies entirely on sign language and eyesight; in order to face emergency situations, The family also built a lighting system that, when the red light turns on, means danger is coming...
To put it simply, if you don't make a sound, everyone is safe; if you accidentally step on a broken branch or knock something down, run for your life!
Because of the setting of the movie, before you know it, the audience will substitute themselves into the protagonist, hold their breath with them, and listen to the voices of the outside world. Different from the visual horror of previous works, the cleverness of "A Quiet Place" is to make the audience worry about the protagonist. An alarm clock, a toy, and a nail will all attract the audience's attention.
Especially in the climax of the previous film, the pregnant heroine Evelyn (Emily Blunt) has broken amniotic fluid and is about to give birth at home, but her family is not at home for various reasons. How can a mother who has stepped on a nail keep silent in the great pain? This constitutes the biggest suspense in the previous story.
This is where the director's brilliance and creativity lie. In the process of watching the movie, the audience outside the screen magically "interacted" and "empathized" with the family on the screen. The volume is kept low most of the time, keeping the audience on their nerves at all times. Jump scare (a technique often used in horror movies or horror video games) can often achieve unexpectedly good results if there is a sudden noise, or if you see a monster rushing out.
Get out of the closed "Haunted House"
Inheriting the story of the previous one, "A Quiet Place 2" is about the death of father Lee (John Krasinski), the original home was destroyed, the heroine had to take a son and a daughter, and the newly born. The story of the children who came out of the safe zone and looked for the hope of survival.
If the first part is just a simple "haunted house" narrative, then the second part has a much larger narrative pattern. It addresses two questions: Are there other survivors out there? In addition to avoiding, can human beings be more active and active in survival?
In addition to maintaining the original voice narrative, the second part adds a two-line or three-line narrative, the environment is more complex, and the atmosphere is more exciting:
The mother and the injured eldest son, Marcus, remain in the basement of the factory building. Their crisis is to care for the crying baby, and to heal the wound they just stepped on the trap. The hidden danger is that the resource allocation of the factory building is insufficient, the space for concealment is small, and there is always a risk of suffocation.
The hearing-impaired daughter set off to the island with the new hero "Ai Mote" to find other survivors. At the end of the previous episode, the family discovered that the sound waves emitted by the hearing aids had a miraculous effect on monsters, and with weapons, they could kill the monsters that were considered invulnerable in the past. If they find the radio station on the island, they will find new hope for human survival.
In parallel and intersecting narratives, "A Quiet Place 2" pushes the horror of the atmosphere to multiple climaxes: Marcus takes the baby to hide in a closed metal safe, takes turns sucking the little oxygen left, is a Climax; Daughter and Ai Motte met other murderous survivors at the dock, another climax; finally found the survivors on the island, thinking that they could temporarily live a fairy life isolated from monsters, but found a monster who can't swim It happens to be on the island... Crisis emerges one after another, and in the constant cross-cutting, the two storylines reach their climax at the same time.
I have to say that in terms of atmosphere creation, in terms of grasping the emotions of the audience, and in terms of the power of the camera, the skill of the second part has improved a lot. It covers up the flaws in logic with techniques, so that "A Quiet Place 2" still makes the audience nervous all the time after the concept of "no voice" is no longer fresh.
victory of the weak
Before "A Quiet Place 2" was released, director John Krasinski said that he was already thinking about how to shoot the third part of the series. "I always said to myself, wouldn't it be cool if we explored the source of the disaster? In preparation for the third installment, I started taking notes every now and then."
From the end of the second part, the meaning of inheritance is already very strong. The growth line of the characters gradually became clear. At the end, it was two children who killed the monster and completed the upgrade from "being saved" to "saving others".
Online reviews of this ending are high, as A Quiet Place 2 upends a male-dominated narrative. Some netizens ridiculed "A Quiet Place 2" as "the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled" because the stories are all about "widows, widows, dumb, lame and brainless monsters".
The words are not rough. In "A Quiet Place 2", the composition of the protagonist is not a "hero" in the traditional sense. The core of the family is the mother Evelyn, and the one who takes the initiative to embark on the road of hope is the daughter who inherits her father's thinking and hearing impairment. The most burning moment in the whole film is when the two children raised their weapons in the face of the monster - the once cowardly boy held the radio, approached the monster step by step and shot in the head, and the daughter took the microphone pole and slammed it into the monster's head.
Since then, "A Quiet Place 2" and the previous one have completed the handover, and the two children have inherited part of their father's spirit, and then ended cleanly. This is also more exciting, what story will the third part of "A Quiet Place" tell? What new tricks will it bring to the story after being directed by Jeff Nichols, the director of "Midnight Run"?
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