A Quiet Place
Mar. 15th, 2021 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI enjoyed it.
+ It bothered me a lot that they let their youngest walk in the back where neither of them could see him. It's bonkers to me. Hell, even letting their daughter walk behind them is wtf since she can't hear and thus wouldn't be able to tell if danger was coming. Why wouldn't the mother take the tail position? It makes no sense. Especially not in people who've been living in such a tense, high danger situation for as long as they had. They weren't even looking back to check on them! This was my biggest issue of the movie honestly. It would have worked better if they'd needed to stop because their older son was having an issue/they were taking a break, got distracted, and the youngest wandered off a bit to play.
+ I liked the whole emotional backbone of the movie. The various members of the family dealing with their grief and guilt and fear stemming from the death of the youngest child. I thought it worked.
+ I have a very hard time buying that humanity figured out that the monsters hunted by sound (and while there was enough infrastructure and people to put it out as a headline) and all the scientists/military/random people weren't immediately experimenting with sounds to try and use it as a weapon. Honestly the father not figuring it out or even considering it after almost a year was a little dumb. At least have him write under 'weaknesses' "sound". I'd buy that he wouldn't have wanted to experiment with it considering the risks of getting it wrong.
+ I appreciated having a horror movie spend so much time during the daylight. I also appreciated that it was more about the tension/suspense and had little gore. I loved the tension/suspense. I liked the 'twist' of the movie being almost completely silent.
+ Their plans for dealing with a newborn in this new world were pretty good so I give them points for that. But at the same time it's still such a dumb idea to have another baby. So unbelievably dumb. They got so lucky that he was the best behaved newborn in history.
+ I absolutely bought that the parents were deeply in love with each other. I loved the scene where he thinks she's been killed and then the utter relief when he finds her.
+ The end sequence was great with the daughter figuring out her hearing aid weapon and the mother killing the monster. I loved that last shot - two more monster rushing for them, the daughter grabbing the microphone, the mother cocking her shotgun with an almost smile.
+ I liked all the ways they've adapted to the situation. The paths of sand, eating with their fingers from leaves, the christmas lights as warning, etc.
+ The monsters/aliens were cool looking.
+ It really bothered me that the mother didn't even notice her daughter was gone for an entire day and apparently didn't even try and comfort her despite knowing she was upset. I was also a little bugged by her collapsing in grief when the youngest was about to be killed instead of going to her daughter. Selfishness in grief is absolutely understandable but I would have preferred her actively being there for her kids.
+ It bothered me a lot that they let their youngest walk in the back where neither of them could see him. It's bonkers to me. Hell, even letting their daughter walk behind them is wtf since she can't hear and thus wouldn't be able to tell if danger was coming. Why wouldn't the mother take the tail position? It makes no sense. Especially not in people who've been living in such a tense, high danger situation for as long as they had. They weren't even looking back to check on them! This was my biggest issue of the movie honestly. It would have worked better if they'd needed to stop because their older son was having an issue/they were taking a break, got distracted, and the youngest wandered off a bit to play.
+ I liked the whole emotional backbone of the movie. The various members of the family dealing with their grief and guilt and fear stemming from the death of the youngest child. I thought it worked.
+ I have a very hard time buying that humanity figured out that the monsters hunted by sound (and while there was enough infrastructure and people to put it out as a headline) and all the scientists/military/random people weren't immediately experimenting with sounds to try and use it as a weapon. Honestly the father not figuring it out or even considering it after almost a year was a little dumb. At least have him write under 'weaknesses' "sound". I'd buy that he wouldn't have wanted to experiment with it considering the risks of getting it wrong.
+ I appreciated having a horror movie spend so much time during the daylight. I also appreciated that it was more about the tension/suspense and had little gore. I loved the tension/suspense. I liked the 'twist' of the movie being almost completely silent.
+ Their plans for dealing with a newborn in this new world were pretty good so I give them points for that. But at the same time it's still such a dumb idea to have another baby. So unbelievably dumb. They got so lucky that he was the best behaved newborn in history.
+ I absolutely bought that the parents were deeply in love with each other. I loved the scene where he thinks she's been killed and then the utter relief when he finds her.
+ The end sequence was great with the daughter figuring out her hearing aid weapon and the mother killing the monster. I loved that last shot - two more monster rushing for them, the daughter grabbing the microphone, the mother cocking her shotgun with an almost smile.
+ I liked all the ways they've adapted to the situation. The paths of sand, eating with their fingers from leaves, the christmas lights as warning, etc.
+ The monsters/aliens were cool looking.
+ It really bothered me that the mother didn't even notice her daughter was gone for an entire day and apparently didn't even try and comfort her despite knowing she was upset. I was also a little bugged by her collapsing in grief when the youngest was about to be killed instead of going to her daughter. Selfishness in grief is absolutely understandable but I would have preferred her actively being there for her kids.
