"A Quiet Place 2" opens, and the story starts again from the first day. A visitor from outside the sky slaughtered the city, and some Christians called for help from the Lord, "May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Jehovah ignored it, and believers died because of this prayer, and the Lord's divine power was blocked from passing on the earth. Moving and static is the first day. At the end of the first day, in the scene of the police being killed by monsters, religion and government have no effect, internal and external constraints and protections no longer exist, and mankind has returned to the moment of walking out of the African jungle. As a doomsday-themed movie in the thriller, "A Quiet Place" sets the clock of human progress to the end that is also the starting point, and talks about how people are people.
After the title, when "Silent Place 2" continued the previous work, daughter Regan inherited his father's will and began to search for a utopia that belongs to the present. Her father's flames were not attracted to rescue, and Reagan had no better way. All she did was to change from "waiting" to "finding", similar to the way from blocking to sparse of Gunyu and his son. Regan's desire to go out later gave her a day of peace. After all, there is no real peace in a world surrounded by monsters.
How to survive is the primary problem faced by the characters in "A Quiet Place". Parallel to this simple desire to survive is how to become a human being. Survival carries the cruelty of the natural world, while existence is unique to humans. Humans think about their relationship with others and their position in the world. After the disaster strikes, Lee Abbott's family still uses the family as a unit of existence, and still prays silently before meals. The siblings are playing Monopoly in the basement, the couple is listening to Neil Young’s "Harvest Moon" dancing while wearing headphones, and the mother teaches his son to do math. All of these are unnecessary behaviors for survival, and are not even conducive to survival. This is existence, which belongs to human existence.
"A Quiet Place 2" describes what happened on the day of the disaster. The boy Marcus had a baseball game. The family came to watch and cheered for it. Later, his deceased brother Bo sent sweets to relieve him. Love and affection are necessary at the beginning of the story. Reagan has been unforgettable for the death of his little brother Bo for a long time, even though Reagan gave Bo a toy airplane with the battery removed because of love. This kind of love happened again in the underground pipes of the factory. In an oxygen-deficient environment, the boy Marcus and his brother exchanged oxygen. The oxygen was insufficient, and the human nature was severely tested. If you consider it with an instrumental rational mind, the baby is naturally The victim. But when the mother opened the pipe door, the oxygen mask was left with the baby, and Marcus was in a coma due to hypoxia. This is Marcus's love for his younger brother due to family affection, and it is also a guarantee of his mother's promise that "you will take good care of him".
It is the consideration of individual continuity to give up a small house to a child, while a decision to give a big house to a small house is based on the continuity of race. The theme of the doomsday is different from ordinary disaster movies. The disaster will not pass immediately. When the doomsday comes, humans can only adapt to it, and it becomes a belief to live as far as possible. The mother teaches her son Marcus homework, which belongs to the transmission of civilization. Monsters in "A Quiet Place" often only exist for a moment, but more about how to continue civilization and pass on survival skills. Under the premise that farming cannot be carried out and land animals have suffered the same fate as humans, fishing has become a skill that must be mastered to survive. When his father wanted to take Marcus to learn to fish, facing Marcus’s worries, his mother told him, “It’s very important for you to learn this well. He only hopes that you can take good care of yourself, take good care of me, and wait for me. When I get old, my hair is gray and my teeth are all out." This is based on the consideration of living longer, not the individual living longer. This is also the reason why the father sacrificed himself for the child, naturally, but also because of love.
Nostalgia for the dead is an important symbol of human civilization. The characters in "A Quiet Place" return to the "tomb" of the earliest deceased member of the family several times, and then all go further. Out of love for those who have passed away, to live has become a promise. In the second part, the protagonist's halo moved to Reagan even more. Because of the guilt of his brother Bo's death, Marcus, who was rescued into the granary, seemed unwilling to hesitate. Love itself is weak and powerless, but the bursting power of love is sometimes immense. The loudspeaker that can kill the monster comes from the father's failed attempt to help the deaf daughter's hearing, and love becomes a weapon to defeat the monster. Because of this, Reagan inherited the role of her father's parent after her father's death, and she wanted to lead the whole family further.
Speaking too bluntly will lose rich water and become concrete and definite. The monsters of thrillers often have real forms. Bong Joon-ho's "Han River Monster" points to the state power apparatus. The monsters in "A Quiet Place" demanded that humans surrender with silence, but it was precisely the sound that defeated the monsters. Unlike monsters that are extremely sensitive to sounds, they can perceive human movements and sounds from a long distance. Reagan, who is deaf, cannot hear any sounds if he does not rely on external tools. But Reagan became the key to defeating the monster. He observed that the harsh noise can eliminate the power of the monster, so that humans may kill the monster.
I am willing to push "A Quiet Place" farther away. The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galiano, known as the "Voice of Latin America," chronicles the history of the colonization of the American continent in the three-volume "Memory of Fire". "Look at the people from the sky!" This was the first feeling that primitive Americans saw when they saw Columbus. It was the same scene as we saw the monster on the first day of "A Quiet Place." The same thing is that we later discovered that these foreigners are not very human. Colonization completely destroys religion and civilization. This is the "first day" in "A Quiet Place". The power to make a noise is unique to the colonists, and the colonized group requires silence. The opening of "A Quiet Place" is a religious replacement. "God said: light! There is light." The "said" in "Said" is abandoned, and silence becomes the law that must be observed in survival. The brutal ruler is blind, and chooses to monitor sounds different from his own with surprisingly accurate hearing.
So I arbitrarily believe that if "A Quiet Place" carries political metaphors, it is a reflection of some sort of colonial rule. "A Quiet Place" portrays a group portrait of the human race after the monster came to the world. The father and son encountered an old man who had lost his wife on their way back from fishing. They shouted with all their strength and were instantly taken their lives by the monster. This is the most direct and tragic way. The question is, how useful is it? The Evelyn family encountered Emmet who had lost a child during the escape (or break through). Emmet hated the monster but chose to live in silence because he believed that no one could kill the monster before Evelyn came. Reagan and Emmet encountered human intrigue and threats while searching for ships. These same silent likes became the accomplices of the monsters in this natural disaster, even if they were killed by the monsters in a moment. The survivors on the small island don't need to be silent. One day counts as one day. They never want to protect themselves when monsters strike, but they forget that forbearance can never guarantee peace.
"A Quiet Place" is a thriller in genre. Today’s movie audience self-positioning is mostly those who purchase a certain service. Due to the natural connection between thriller and horror, thriller audiences’ evaluation criteria for movies are often not scary, whether the plot is self-consistent, and ignore sensory experience. Thrillers are about "monsters". "What are we afraid of?" is what the thrillers want to express in depth. And what disturbs us in "A Quiet Place" is not the brutality of monsters, but the inability to make sounds as human beings, so what the Reagan family is fighting is not a battle for survival, but a battle for dignity. The director John Krasinski told us through two films that could not speak: what they did not allow may be what they feared.
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