In most of the time, the audience of horror films are passive participants in the story: the audience is in an absolutely safe perspective of God, and what they enjoy is that the characters on the screen are walking on the edge of crisis, triggered by empathy and visual stimulation. Psychological/physical pleasure. This raises an interesting and strange question: Should horror movies scare the audience or the characters? A little bit of attention will reveal that there are a large number of horror sections just to frighten the audience, but they do not have a considerable impact on the people in the play. Most horror films require the audience to actively map emotions to the fate of the characters in order to increase participation and interaction. Under this premise, only Jump Scare, a simple, direct and effective method, is used uncontrollably.
This makes "A Quiet Place" seem extraordinary. As the directorial debut of John Krasinski, the entire film has both experimental and commercial content in design and conception. This is the same as last year's "Escape from Desperate Town" and even the more mainstream "Clown's Back". It is not uncommon for
to listen to the sound of the monster design, and it can even be regarded as a bad street, but whether the whole movie can be supported by only one idea is a very test of execution. 2016's "After Turning Off the Lights" is a typical negative example. The beginning is very strong, but it cannot create a continuous horror atmosphere around the central point in the middle, and the ending is naturally unsatisfactory.
But John Krasinski cleverly kept the audience's sense of participation until the last ten minutes. With the very restrained sound effects, the audience unconsciously becomes an active participant in "A Quiet Place", not just a passive observer. As a result, "A Quiet Place" has become a thrilling movie-it can make the audience's heartbeat speed up and meet expectations without treating them as fools.
In other words, this is a very good horror movie.
The script of "A Quiet Place" was co-written by Brian Woods and Scott Baker. The work "Nightlight" released by the two earlier in 2015 is a typical low-cost horror film, with occasional highlights but overall clichés and repercussions. dull. The director John Krasinski keenly captured and magnified one of the core elements of "A Quiet Place": family and growth, thus changing the tone of the whole movie: no longer selling horror elements to scare the audience, and It is to use empathy to guide the audience and establish connections.
From "Alien" to "Jurassic Park", keen, bloodthirsty alien creatures have always been an important part of horror movies. John Krasinski naturally knows this tradition, and is very smart to lead the audience into this auditory game. Like many horror movies, "A Quiet Place" contains the content of "inducing anticipation": through sight and sound, the audience’s common sense is used to induce the audience to have psychological expectations about the consequences of a specific behavior-when you see the alarm clock, you know it will ring , When you see a nail, you know you will step on it, and when you see a pregnant woman, you know whether it will be silent. But John Krasinski did not overuse (highly refined to maximize its function), and at the same time successfully aroused the curiosity of the audience to participate in the process of cracking these established rules-after removing the useless pen , Which constitutes an important element of an excellent thriller movie. When the director and screenwriter deliberately avoided dialogue as the main narrative method, this produced a very subtle change in the entire film, allowing the audience to integrate into an unexpected and incredibly pleasant way. The world on the screen.
When the sound is abandoned, the importance of vision becomes more prominent. The technical team led by John Krasinski and photographer Charlotte Christensen carefully set up every shot of "A Quiet Place" so that the movie is like a timer on a time bomb, perfectly balanced The sense of fear and natural scenery-these beautiful scenes, also laid the emotional space for the characters. From the pictures we can also find that although it is a horror film, the essence of the film is not "destruction", this is a powerful core message. "A Quiet Place" is a movie about how to find power, not refuge. This idea really enhances the emotional power of the ending at the end of the film.
In addition to the weird ending that is likely to ruin your perception of the entire movie (which hints at a bad sequel development direction), "Quiet Place" is another surprising work in the wave of excellent horror films that has gradually recovered in recent years. . We live in an extremely noisy worldIn the world, it is hard to imagine what life is like without sound. So many classic horror movies are about people who have to adapt to harsh environments-they must challenge their own insecurities and preconceived common sense concepts in order to get a chance.
With this in mind, the performance of the actors is very important. Real couples, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are the reassurances of the movie. The former is the embodiment of motherhood and strength, while the latter is a typical strong and gentle father image. But the one who is truly outstanding is the deaf actress Millison Simmons who plays the eldest daughter. In "A Quiet Place", the deaf-mute persona constitutes a natural conflict with the setting of the whole story, which echoes the daughter's resistance to the family and self-growth during the resistance period. And Millison Simmons showed considerable potential in last year's "Surprise in Silence". His performance in this film is also very natural and harmonious, with very powerful dramatic power and credibility.
There are many details in "A Quiet Place" that can make you feel restless, but the best way to watch this film is to touch as little information as possible. As a "silent" movie with powerful expressiveness and visual elements, "A Quiet Place" can be deeply rooted without a word.
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