A Quiet Place (2018) - Smart And Sad!

★★★☆☆

I’m sort of immune to horror films. Most of them are like a comedy to me but not this one. ‘A Quiet Place’ is overall decent, sometimes terrifying, potentially a tearjerker to some who value the value of family! It’s more like a melancholy drama than a typical horror film out there. It’s got a smart setup like the one in ‘Don’t Breathe’, where you make sounds you get killed! So it basically plays out in silence with mostly sign languages plus subtitles, and very few dialogues. It’d better be seen in a cinema with lights out and respectful audiences around not making a single sound!

The film’s overall watchable but there’re head-scratching flaws like how come a sister would carelessly leave her little brother behind to do what he wants without making sure that the toy is safe for him to play; why the parents are still risking to have a baby afterwards knowing that it would inevitably cause them so much trouble and danger; how come they even bother to take precautions while the monster can be killed by simply blowing its head away with a shotgun, and you know there’re only three of them in the area; and why after so many years since ‘Alien’ those monsters in the film still look like Ridley Scott’s ‘babies’! Yea, there’re scares but they’re not so impressive and consistent. And I don’t like the ending in particular, but I also wonder, would it be better if it ended up a tragedy, or an open ending? I don’t have a problem with the whole film itself but an ending like that is truly a turnoff!

‘Who are we parents if we can’t protect our kids?’ The truth is, kids are like debts from your past lives that you’re supposed to pay off now without expecting them to pay you back, unless you want to keep playing the game of debtee and debtor on and on! So if you don’t have kids, be thankful. If you already have, be thankful too, because they’re actually here to help you break free provided that you see them right!