905 Movie Network Special Article The movie "A Quiet Place" series has become a dark horse in the horror and thriller genre since it first landed on the big screen in 2018. The first two films in the series successfully won the first place in the mainland box office list of horror films in 2018 and the first place in the mainland box office list of thriller films in 2021 with their novel "silent" settings.
"A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" is the prequel to the "A Quiet Place" series. It returns after three years and will take the audience back to the first day of the apocalypse. The terminally ill heroine leads a cat in the big city. Start your escape journey. However, the brand-new story and the more grand background of the story have caused strong word-of-mouth controversy. Some viewers commented, "This is a literary film, not a horror film."
In this episode, Suo Yabin, a professor at Communication University of China, and the host Xiaoli... Confrontation: Suo Yabin believes that the film can achieve a score of 7 overall, but Xiaoli believes that "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day", as a sequel, did not meet expectations compared to other works in the same series, and is a failing work. So, what is the quality of this film? And why do we often encounter acclimatization?
Suo Yabin, a professor at Communication University of China: I think this movie can be given a score of 7. Although from the overall artistic quality of the movie, it is actually not as good as the first two, but it is based on the original story logic. The basics have been expanded, and the space for interpretation is wider.
Moderator Xiaoli: In my opinion, the score of 7 points for is a bit too high. It is a failure here. I expected this movie to give me a little kick, but it was filled with too many "chicken soup" expressions.
Faced with the controversy, Suo Yabin said: "The "A Quiet Place" series of movies is a typical 'watercress'. Its most 'acclimated' setting is the use of a limited perspective to tell the story, and the monsters are never explained. The origin of "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" and the impact it has had after it invaded the world. This way of telling the story is inconsistent with the audience's expectations. "
In fact, the time, location and even the settings of the characters in "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" are relatively different. The first two films have undergone huge changes, and the original cast has been completely changed, which has brought a sense of strangeness to the audience.
1Character changes: The protagonist of the story changes from family to individual.
The character makes it difficult for the audience to empathize?
The first major change in "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" is that the protagonist of the story has become a more representative image in the city - a wandering individual. The heroine is a person who is about to live in New York. A woman living alone at the end of her life. Compared to the previous two films, which featured a family-based protagonist group, the role of a woman living alone is a bit thin, so many viewers believe that the cat in the film is the real protagonist of the film.
Moderator Xiaoli: The transformation of the protagonist in the story from family to individual makes me feel a little hard to empathize with.
Suo Yabin, a professor at Communication University of China: Indeed, compared to the family settings in the first two films, the audience lacks a sense of identification and acceptance of the lonely character setting in the third film.
The heroine in the film is obsessed with "eating pizza" because pizza represents her childhood memories, family, affection and father's love, as well as her pursuit of music, art and beauty. The songs and memories of childhood were drowned by the hustle and bustle of the city as time passed. The arrival of the monster quieted the city to a certain extent, and the heroine had the opportunity to hear the songs of her childhood again.
The movie also makes a metaphor in the name setting of the protagonist. The heroine and her cat are named Sam and Frodo respectively. For Western audiences, these two names are clearly directional. They correspond to the names of the two protagonists in the movie "The Lord of the Rings" - the master Frodo and his servant Sam. This is not only an update of the character setting, but also a deepening of the filmâs theme.
2 Change of location: the story takes place from the countryside to the city
Why is the sound design so lackluster?
The second major change in "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" is that the location of the story is moved to a very noisy city-New York.
Host Xiaoli: When watching the movie, I was expecting some special sound design in the city, but it seems that there is not...
Professor Suo Yabin of Communication University of China: I agree with you Based on this judgment, I obviously feel that the dialogue between the characters in the new episode has obviously increased compared with the previous two episodes.
The first line of dialogue in the first episode of "A Quiet Place" appears about half an hour into the film, and the characters' language in the entire film is compressed to the extreme. After changing the location of the story to the noisy New York, the characters' language and dialogue increased significantly.
"This work is not as good as the previous two in terms of the detailed sound design." Suo Yabin concluded. For example, in the first two works, the subjective feelings of a deaf-mute girl were used to express the chaos, noise and brutality of the massacre. In the end, the deaf-mute girl thought of using the harsh sizzling sound produced by the hearing aid to fight back against the monster. To some extent, this physical defect became a key opportunity for them to finally defeat the monster.
3 Time changes: The timeline goes back from the present to the past
Why is the source of terror still blank?
The third major change in "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" is that the timeline of the story is pulled back to "the day the monsters came."
Moderator Xiaoli: I am looking forward to this work being able to answer our questions in the first and second parts, such as "Where does the monster come from" and "Why can it only hear and cannot see"? As a result, this This one doesn't give as many answers as the first two.
Suo Yabin, a professor at Communication University of China: The habit of only digging holes without filling them in the "Quiet Place" series has indeed angered many Chinese audiences. However, the third part is closer to the description of the laws of the entire Quiet Place universe than the first two.
"A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" deliberately buried a lot of foreshadowing. For example, in the second part, it was hinted that meteorites were falling from the sky, but in "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" the meteorites have already hit New York City, whether it is a cat Even monsters seem to be attracted to this magical substance.
So is "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day" a high-scoring work as Suo Yabin said, or is it a failure as the host Xiaoli feels? I believe that all viewers will have their own answers after entering the theater.
