Interesting and Suspenseful & Deeply Flawed

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2018)

Negative reviews for A Quiet Place (2018) on IMDB pick on the choices made for the film, such as why didn't the people live by the water, or even ignorantly, why are there still birds - don't they squawk - and the answer is there's no need to nitpick these details in this highly entertaining flick.
The real glaring technical flaw in this film, however, is that cochlear implants do not make audible feedback; instead, the outer microphone part drives via magnetic induction an embedded set of wires that tickle the auditory nerve - no sound involved at all. Feedback is caused in regular hearing-aids by re-amplifying the sound that emits. It's a flaw because the entire human race's survival depends on a discovery based on this impossible feedback!
Also off-putting, the sign language used is simple - designed for the viewers - such as when the daughter signs "dinner" with a hand-formed "d" - in a real Deaf household they'd just motion with their eyes. In fact, much, if not most of the dialog in the film could have been done with simple eye movements coupled with had tips.
On the other hand, it could be the girl with the implant is the means by which the family had any sign language expertise bordering on actual known sign language - helping to explain how the family survived as long as it has, relative to the other families which are never seen. The sign language used is certainly not enough to instill any kind of "language" into the children's minds, so the little boy would have been a blooming savage idiot if they hadn't taught him to talk in the nursery or wherever and teach him some manners.
Consider, I once asked a Deaf shrink: Can deaf people be hypnotized? The answer is Yes and No, it depends on if the person's inner language is based on motion/signs vs. English - only then can the eyes be the gateway to the soul.
All in all, a really entertaining movie amongst all the garbage being produced., like the one where masked men can fly.