A Gripping Sci-Fi Thriller

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2018)

Even before A Quiet Place was about to hit the theatres, I was blown away by the concept I saw in its trailers. Don't make a sound! How apt is that for horror? I knew it was going to be promising then and there.
Fortunately, A Quiet Place movie doesn't disappoint. It leverages that hush quotient to the maximum. It constructs itself in a way that uses all the possible rogue elements in real life that could overthrow a solid working plan - of keeping quiet. We are gradually prepared for the inevitability with a plot that has dangerous written all over it. It is like walking on the edge of a knife. You know that it's not going to work, but the plot literally walks you through it.
Plot and Theme of A Quiet Place (Spoilers)
John Krasinski's genius lies in a world where staying mum is the word. There are blind aliens lurking in the city that rampage and decimate everything that makes a sound. So what are the things that make a sound? Oh! Wait, right about everything. To thrive in a world where even the teensiest noise is going to set them off, how do you think you are going to survive?
It has been carefully built, of course without the usual screenplay, with the music reworking itself to produce patient notes that become both engaging and thrilling alongside its nerve-racking storyline. It forces you to often go silent yourself, as you become the characters portrayed. That's the impact A Quiet Place has on you. You can't appreciate John Krasinski, Bryan Woods and Scott Beck enough to come up with a plot so wild and engaging that it rivets an entire hall of moviegoers at once and shuts them to silence.
The Tragedy
What appears like a prologue basically bases itself as the nub of the story. A family of five scrounging off an emptied world, taking what they need and sticking together as a team.
Lee: Too noisy.
The little one Beau Abbott played by Cade Woodward who fails to understand how dire the situation was, makes a mistake and ends up paying the price. It is a scene that rips the family apart just as aliens do to the poor boy.
One of flick's strength is, hands down, the hearing aids of Regan Abbott (Millicent Simmonds). It is as if the whole story revolves around it. It ends up becoming the reason of Beau's death for which Lee (John Krasinski) begins to secretly blame Regan. It kills Regan to know that her Dad hates him because of something she doesn't have control over. She feels guilty too but the past can't be changed.
Same goes for Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) who plays wife to Lee. We see her often visiting Beau's room and crying. It crushes her too knowing that her hands were empty, that she could have lifted Beau to avert the tragedy.
Evelyn's Struggle
We fast forward to a year later where people are still secretly lamenting for Beau. Lee is trying to make contact with the outer world to check if there are others like them scavenging silently, still breathing. Evelyn is pregnant with another child (like really? I thought they were careful right about everything). Whilst Regan goes to visit Beau's grave after having a heated ASL argument with her father.
Lee takes Marcus (Noah Jupe) to a river to teach him how to fish.
Marcus: Do you still love her?
Lee: Of course I do.
Marcus: You should tell her.
He shows him that innate louder sounds are always going to mask their normal talks and movements. It is an exercise that reassures you that there is a way to stay safe despite the current state of the world. Like how in a zombie-ridden world people would wrap themselves up with zombie insides to smell exactly like them. Workaround? Okay, that seems like a preparation for a sequel already.
Back at home, Evelyn goes into labour as she steps on a nail breaking a glass frame alerting nearby aliens. As an attempt to warn others she makes the exterior lights red signaling danger. What follows is a nerve-rending affair of her trying to beat the pain by staying quiet as aliens explore the interiors of her house.
It has all those mind-numbing elements impregnated that will force you to literally jump out of your seats. It's like you are feeling her pain as the creature's onslaught feels imminent. But you can only imagine it.
The Grain Silo
On returning and on finding the lights red, Lee asks Marcus to create a diversion with a rocket as he enters his house only to find Evelyn with the baby in the bathroom. With babies crying is inevitable, and so they nearly escape another close call as they further into the basement. Making a promise to look after their children Lee leaves.
Who are we if we can't protect them? We have to protect them.
Meanwhile, Regan and Marcus unite and head to a grain silo to alert their father using a signal. Regan is defiant saying that her father doesn't love her. Marcus tries to explain it isn't true. In the midst of a confusion, he falls inside. He is about to become a victim of grain entrapment when Regan jumps in and helps him out using the fallen hatch door.
Marcus: He'll come for us