A QUIET PLACE....if they hear you, they'll hunt you.
Sometimes the same formula can still feels new and fresh depending on the way you use it. And to prove that we don't need big budgets or noise to make something bigger, better, louder, we get this month an interesting movie called "A quiet Place" (2018), a project about monsters, aliens, invading and taking over the world. Something that we have seen before. There is no novelty about it, but under the hand of the actor and director John Krasinski, the story takes different levels delivery one of the most nerve breaking movies we've seen recently. The setting is pretty much another post apocalyptic world, where after a few months after being attacked by some sort of species, that might be another experiment that went wrong or an alien species that came to invade, truth is we really don't know and that is no what the movies tries to focus in, but instead let us keep guessing and come up with bunch of theories. The fact is this monsters are hunting us because even they are blind, have a very sensitive and develop sense of hearing, so they can hear every single move from miles away and will come from you in a matter of seconds, plus seems like they have a skin that works like a shield protecting them from being attacked or shot. leaving us an easy prey and without any way to fight back. So all the survivor had to adapt and being trying to figure out a way to hurt them back, their weakness, but no success so far, so they have to leave in a very quite, almost silent place, avoiding make any possible noise by moving or talking, Adaptation for survival or die, and be prepared for the worst it's the only way to make it through.
And that's when we follow a particular family of five. They are looking for supplies at an abandon supermarket while we get to learn how they live these days. Mom is the one in charge of the house chores and she's pregnant. The oldest, she's deaf, so she has to be more careful with her moves as she can not notice any possible noise, reason why her parents had lined the way for her to follow. The Son is trying to help and learn but he's to scared after all what they've been through to find the strength to fight but his parents are trying to show him how to because they need him to survive when they won't be around. And Dad is just trying to protect them and provide them to survive, hunting and building tramps so they can be prepared in case of an attack. But life has become a struggle for all of them. There's no sound, no fun, every single move has to be done carefully and well planned and no room to improvise or mistakes because that will cost them a lot. In top of all this stressful and hopeless situation, this particular family just went through a very hard loss, so they are just getting back together in track, but after this kind of experiences, there are always wounds left that need to be heal and sometimes we don't know how, specially when our minds and actions are focused in surviving physically leaving the emotions on the side but emotions are the ones that tend to control or lead us, so how could you face the world that keeps moving and won't wait for you, if feeling broken or something is missing?
The parents are still humans and a man and a woman that love each other but they have needs and expectations as any one else. But now everything has to be put on the side and just live day by day trying to survive. Their loved has evolved to a point of becoming a team, where the main goal is to protect their family and teach them how to survive when they will be by their own. Their love has a big wound from a loss that stays around as guilt and they can't let them fail again, specially now that a new baby is coming soon and the have to make this work, but how would you make a baby to stay quite and avoid making any noise? There is no romance or excitement in their lives anymore. Their relationship holds on to any possible moment they can find to enjoy be with each other and keep building that love without proper communication and just basing it on their love for their family. How can you live with love without the opportunity of sharing moments of romance or passion while everything is meant for survival and the minimum wrong move might cost your life or your beloved ones. So what is the point of survive if there is nothing to look forward to. Your life is just meant to be lined up by a predator that is chasing you every second. And in top of that you get to sacrifice one of the things that makes us more humans, language. Using sign language to communicate, you have to shut down your voice and omit any sound, music or singing. There is no room for those moments that fulfill your life, but the love to others will keep you going to protect them and hold on there until the very end.
Same thing happens to the kids. They have been private from games, and fun, the idea of a future where they can plan and choose the kind of life they want. Instead they are learning survival skills and unable to socialize as everyone is hiding. But growing up in such a hostile environment can bring secondary effects. The oldest is struggling with the fact of her condition as a deaf person. Frustrating for not being able to find any cure or way to listen so she can do more and help her family, and also living the guilt of feeling responsible for what happened to her family, just because of the fact that her parents are more worried and occupied trying to protect them that have forgotten to tell her how much they love her and that is the only fuel you need in situations as extreme like these. A force and a reason to keep fighting but she feels lost and hopeless. But she has her brother. He likes her and tries to help her to deal with all the stress while she brings him some safety when he feels more scared. She is stronger than him because she feels like has nothing to lose while he is the opposite, just the idea of losing his family or putting them in danger again will kill him. How would you face your life if every opportunity is taken away from you leaving you just the fact of live to survive with all the basics but no pleasures but the one of being alive? Is it family the fuel that you need to keep going or we need more than that?
This is just a very quiet perspective of life without a proper life. We wake up every morning so confident that life is waiting for us that we forget that we are just entitled of what we believe and deserve for being humans but when we are pushed down in the food chain we have no option other than being grateful for what we have and all the opportunities we might have. The fact that we can enjoy these moments like going to the movies should be something to think about rather than take it for granted because we never know what will happen tomorrow, and what life has in storage for us. We forget that family makes us stronger and we need those relationships like friends to motivate us as enjoy the pleasures of life that we don't take our friends as serious as they should be, for being people that motivate us and help us through the hard and fun times in life, and the possibility of finding love, a partner in crime that will have your back, and stay with you in good and bad times is now replaced by the search of someone to whom have fun times, and lots of sex and pleasures, no real connections or safety. It is all matter of perspective and once that those options are taken away from you, the reality of what matters will take a different perspective so why wait to that to happen? Instead of enjoy life while we can and be grateful enough for it to have our beloved ones around and alive and cherish them and focus on what matters will definitely prepare of us for any imminent end of the world, at least as the one we know now. Let your actions speak louder for you.
Sometimes the same formula can still feels new and fresh depending on the way you use it. And to prove that we don't need big budgets or noise to make something bigger, better, louder, we get this month an interesting movie called "A quiet Place" (2018), a project about monsters, aliens, invading and taking over the world. Something that we have seen before. There is no novelty about it, but under the hand of the actor and director John Krasinski, the story takes different levels delivery one of the most nerve breaking movies we've seen recently. The setting is pretty much another post apocalyptic world, where after a few months after being attacked by some sort of species, that might be another experiment that went wrong or an alien species that came to invade, truth is we really don't know and that is no what the movies tries to focus in, but instead let us keep guessing and come up with bunch of theories. The fact is this monsters are hunting us because even they are blind, have a very sensitive and develop sense of hearing, so they can hear every single move from miles away and will come from you in a matter of seconds, plus seems like they have a skin that works like a shield protecting them from being attacked or shot. leaving us an easy prey and without any way to fight back. So all the survivor had to adapt and being trying to figure out a way to hurt them back, their weakness, but no success so far, so they have to leave in a very quite, almost silent place, avoiding make any possible noise by moving or talking, Adaptation for survival or die, and be prepared for the worst it's the only way to make it through.
And that's when we follow a particular family of five. They are looking for supplies at an abandon supermarket while we get to learn how they live these days. Mom is the one in charge of the house chores and she's pregnant. The oldest, she's deaf, so she has to be more careful with her moves as she can not notice any possible noise, reason why her parents had lined the way for her to follow. The Son is trying to help and learn but he's to scared after all what they've been through to find the strength to fight but his parents are trying to show him how to because they need him to survive when they won't be around. And Dad is just trying to protect them and provide them to survive, hunting and building tramps so they can be prepared in case of an attack. But life has become a struggle for all of them. There's no sound, no fun, every single move has to be done carefully and well planned and no room to improvise or mistakes because that will cost them a lot. In top of all this stressful and hopeless situation, this particular family just went through a very hard loss, so they are just getting back together in track, but after this kind of experiences, there are always wounds left that need to be heal and sometimes we don't know how, specially when our minds and actions are focused in surviving physically leaving the emotions on the side but emotions are the ones that tend to control or lead us, so how could you face the world that keeps moving and won't wait for you, if feeling broken or something is missing?
The parents are still humans and a man and a woman that love each other but they have needs and expectations as any one else. But now everything has to be put on the side and just live day by day trying to survive. Their loved has evolved to a point of becoming a team, where the main goal is to protect their family and teach them how to survive when they will be by their own. Their love has a big wound from a loss that stays around as guilt and they can't let them fail again, specially now that a new baby is coming soon and the have to make this work, but how would you make a baby to stay quite and avoid making any noise? There is no romance or excitement in their lives anymore. Their relationship holds on to any possible moment they can find to enjoy be with each other and keep building that love without proper communication and just basing it on their love for their family. How can you live with love without the opportunity of sharing moments of romance or passion while everything is meant for survival and the minimum wrong move might cost your life or your beloved ones. So what is the point of survive if there is nothing to look forward to. Your life is just meant to be lined up by a predator that is chasing you every second. And in top of that you get to sacrifice one of the things that makes us more humans, language. Using sign language to communicate, you have to shut down your voice and omit any sound, music or singing. There is no room for those moments that fulfill your life, but the love to others will keep you going to protect them and hold on there until the very end.
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