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| Year of first release: 2018 | |
| Director: John Krasinski | |
| Actors: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Thriller | |
| Conditions of visioning: 03.05.2018, Cinemaxx, German version | |
| Synopsis: Two parents do what it takes to keep their children and soon to be newborn safe in a world full of creatures hunting every sound they can hear. | |
| Review: The fact that the movie focusses on the silence reminds me Blindness with Julianne Moore focussed on the blindness. The plot sounds like for an horror movie. But it is in fact an excellent thriller. Because we almost never see the monsters. Instead we follow the family (including a deaf girl played by Millicent Simmonds) and their silence, their fear, their way to adapt to this silent world. And therefore without much SFX we enter into a new world. Great! The story is quite simple but the evolution of the characters and especially of Millicent Simmonds are very interesting as they are based on human events such as the love to a member of the family, the birth of a new member or the discovery of oneself. Because the actors almost never speak, all their acting and our attention is given to their expression, to their movements. And even if Millicent Simmonds seems to be quite always the same face, she becomes more open during the movie. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski manage to act love, fear, protection, accusation, despair without a word and this makes it sublime. There are many ideas to make visible their adapted organisation that are quite creative. Red light/ Yellow light during the night to know whether the place is safe or there is any monster around. The sand to pave the ways for the bare foot walkers. This movie is a great combination of tense thriller and amazing acting! Brilliant! |
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Rating: 9 /10
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Saturday, May 5, 2018
A quiet place (2018)
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Great review! I agree that the acting was brilliant and the suspense that has been building-up throughout the movie made up to a masterpiece among thrillers. However, from a female point of view: I went to the cinema expecting to watch a thriller, a horror maybe, but ended up being hit by a emotional-wrecking ball. The „quiet place”, based on the trailer and the plot summary could be placed in the horror or thriller genre but, for me, it is so much more than that. There is no plot per-se, there is just a day-to-day struggle of a family to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The amazing pacing of the movie, that makes you feel like you are accompanying the family along the road, step by step, makes you care about them, which causes the film to be even scarier and more emotional. We meet the protagonists after a short preamble in the moment of a family tragedy and get to see how they deal with it. Each and every one of them blames themselves and mourns in their own way. Especially the connection between the father and his daughter, who seem to be the toughest members of the family and don´t want to show their weeknesses, becomes highly fregile. In a slightly far-fetched but, damn !, extremelly touching scene, they finally reconcile, which for me was the most moving moment. I have never shed so many tears for so many different reasons ( at the same freaking time!) during one movie. The fact that one of the protagonists, born deaf, longs to hear in a world where sound imposes the greatest danger, is simply mind-blowing. I could watch it over and over again, being able to find some new emotional layer each time.
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