Brilliant, intense and credible horror

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2018)

How important is the sound in our lives? Well very much, we use it and more often than not abuse, just see the data growing on noise pollution that now prevails in large cities.
Even in the cinema, not even to say, the importance of sound is enormous and since it appeared in this field, during the first decades of the last century, it immediately made it clear how much it was to sweep away the silent cinema in the lap a few years.
And if there is a genre in which the appropriate use of sound is crucial, this is precisely the horror that between sudden explosions of sounds and music and shouts of all kinds, has also produced most of the soundtracks since its birth more iconic than ever.
If the sound is important it is also the opposite, or the absence of noise, the more or less total silence, it is also a sound, paradoxically perhaps the most noisy and deafening of all.
Precisely this aspect is exploited more by "A Quite Place", as it did in 2007 "Dead Silence", but if in the second it is the silence to be scary in the first one this is used to focus the attention on every smaller sound, or rather noise so as to create an increasingly high and constant anxiety and tension, in short brilliant.
Naturally, in order to achieve this goal without the use of many sounds, we need an excellent technical department that takes care of the sound and its mix in the smallest detail, and of this "A Quiet Place" can boast, it is also fundamental a soundtrack quite convincing and incisive, and here Marco Beltrami does a great job realizing a disturbing and well balanced one that manages to create an atmosphere equally disturbing and in perfect harmony with the story and the timbre that the director decided to give the film .
Speaking of directing John Krasinski directs everything in an almost minimalist and certainly simplistic way: many still, clear shots, attentive to the smallest detail, to the smallest movement, particular attention is given to the environments and objects that come into contact with the family protagonist, because every contact can generate a sound and every sound here makes the difference between life and death.
Impossible not to become attached immediately and get in tune with the family protagonist, despite some stupid moves by the children, and this is due to the strong chemistry that binds each character and makes them very credible; the same couple Blunt-Krasinski works a lot, are a perfect couple, moreover their interpretations, especially that of Emily Blunt, are really remarkable and both succeed with great skill to enter the breads of his character that among other things combines very much, this also greatly influences the extreme credibility of the film.
So in "A Quiet Place" everything works perfectly, everything is in the right place, despite being a film extremely difficult to achieve, the result is a triumph of the genre that combines the best of today's horror with apocalyptic background with the family drama.
There are some small inconsistencies but just because small it is negligible and does not affect the film that manages to be intense until the last minute, to leave the audience with bated breath and to surprise him several times with thrilling twists.
Beautiful ending that if it had been different probably the film would have become too detached from its nature and its initial spirit; the relatively short duration proves another point in favor because if it had lasted longer it would have risked falling into repetitiveness.