How is a quiet place
A QUIET PLACE (2018) Explained
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nyet here with film comics explained and
today we'll be exploring the 2018 sci-fi
horror film a quiet place
starring Emily Blunt Millicent Simmons
no a tube and John Krasinski in his
directorial debut the film is
essentially about survival and the legs
parents will go to ensure their kids
make it through the dangers of a world
filled with monsters one of the great
strengths of this film is that there's
no needless exposition or prologue
explaining what had happened to earth or
how the monsters had got there the film
begins on day 89 in the aftermath of
their arrival and we as viewers are
dropped into the middle of a story
that's already ongoing the only brief
explanation that we get is from a
collage of newspaper clippings the
family had posted in their home and
notes that Lee the patriarch of the
group had been writing what we do know
immediately is that any sound that is
made essentially losing hyper-aggressive
extraterrestrial creatures they used
echolocation to map out their
environment to reduce their audible
footprints lead begun to soundproof his
family's home by laying soft sound
around their property and major walkways
painting all the non creaky floorboards
and teaching his family sign language as
for the aliens not only where their
bodies almost indestructible showing no
damage from explosions and weapons fire
but their razor-sharp claws were able to
tear through metal with ease which meant
that if you didn't have a plan you were
likely going to bite the dust this is
made absolutely clear from the onset of
the film with the tragic and sudden loss
of their youngest child bow that we
snatched up by one of the monsters after
turning on
loud toy that his father had forbidden
him from playing with and though Lee had
taken the batteries out of the toy and
left it in the abandoned store his
eldest daughter Gretchen wanted to make
beau happy and handed it back to him
what she could not have known was that
he had also taken the batteries and
while she was directly in front of her
brother when he switched it on Gretchen
was also deaf and couldn't hear this
leading to his unfortunate and shocking
demise
since that day Gretchen had lived with
guilt and the belief that her father
blamed her for his passing and though
this was far from true is inability to
tell her that he loved her only further
fed this guilt in reality both Evelyn
and Leigh blamed nobody for the event
which they both saw as an unfortunate
accident I guess they'll feel the weight
in my arms
who are we
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we can protect them
the death of their youngest son also
made the arrival of their first baby in
the chaotic conditions extremely
problematic forcing them to create a set
of rules to ensure their survival I
think we should also be noted as
terrified as the prospect of having a
child was for the family the arrival of
a new baby was a symbol of hope for both
the family and the future of the human
race giving them something more
substantial to live for other than
survival itself now the horrifying
aliens which I've named the listener's
had arrived on the back of meteors from
a hostile planet that had no light which
is why they had no eyes and used
echolocation to sense out their
environment the inhospitable nature of
their planet also led to the aliens
developing a nya invulnerable armored
exterior that was impervious to almost
all forms of attack I mean this exterior
was so durable that the creatures that
essentially survived traveling on
meteors in the vacuum of space for
hundreds if not thousands of years prior
to crashing on earth we also see a few
article clippings that emphasize this
point by revealing bullets and bombs
were not able to penetrate their armor
production designer Jeffrey B Croft was
responsible for the creatures
development and had taken all of
christen skis notes to create a somewhat
humanoid creature that had adapted to a
world without light references were
pulled from prehistoric fish snakes
spiders and bats to explore the movement
of the listeners while their exterior
was modeled around bug people which were
human cadavers that had been naturally
mummified in peat giving their tough
exterior a leathery look their bodies
were remarkably similar to the cloven
monster though there were numerous times
smaller than the massive kaiju their
long limbs also enabled them to move
with great speed and as mentioned
earlier their sharp claws were seen
ripping through metal with ease their
teeth were also modeled on the classic
character venom giving them a menacing
grin upon approach their heads which
looks similar to the demagogue in in
stranger things contained a massive
echolocation chamber that would open up
to increase the sensitivity of their
hearing this moment was also
incidentally the only time the
indestructible beasts were vulnerable
and is something the Abbott family would
eventually piece together
I've actually covered both the
demagoguing and the cloven monster in
separate videos and will leave a link
these below if you're interested both
Chris in ski and his sound designers
also explained that the creatures were
intelligent and communicated amongst one
another through sound frequencies the
creatures also gave off an
electromagnetic frequency that affected
electronics and we would see the lights
flicker whenever they would need one of
the most interesting things about the
listeners was that they actually did not
feed on any people and the reason they
hunted humanity and most of the other
life-forms on earth to extinction were
so that they could replicate the quiet
place that was once their home planet
now the abbot's were a farming family
which meant they were able to live off
the land harmoniously without creating
much noise an important skill we see
passed down from Lee on to his children
while much of the population had been
wiped out the abbot's actually lived
among a small group of survivors that
intentionally stayed in isolated pockets
to avoid the aliens at the start of the
film we see Lee lighting a fire and as
he looked on into the distance we saw
that there were numerous other farms
that did the same thing in a scene that
was reminiscent to the lighting of the
warning beacons in the Lord of the Rings
at no point do we actually see them
interact with the other families but I
think it's safe to assume they'd all
communicated with each other and shared
resources to modify their homes into
quiet safe havens with the arrival of a
new baby on the way the family had begun
to further soundproof their home they
also created a unique box coupled with
the breathing apparatus for their infant
should the need arise for them to
further insulate the sound that it made
we also noticed that Lee was working on
upgrading Regan's hearing aid to restore
her hearing hoping to give her a
fighting chance in a world where sound
meant life or death Lee ultimately
failed to upgrade her hearing aid with
the devices he had created all producing
a deafening high-pitched sound which was
unbearable to his daughter and even more
painful to the creatures who had an
overdeveloped sensitivity to sound this
ended up being extremely useful and we
saw a few examples of the hearing aid
inadvertently saving Regan and her
family in events that foreshadowed the
film's conclusion with Evelyn do to give
birth in a few days
Lee took his son Marcus to a nearby
river and attempted to teach him how to
fish and while Reagan was fearlessly
enthusiastic to join her father and
Marcus was terrified Lee decided to take
his son fearing that his daughter's
hearing impaired
would lead to another accident this in
turn led a frustrated Reagan to visit
the memorial set up for both leaving
Evelyn alone on the farm having lived in
silence for so long
Marcus was scared at all the sound being
made by the river but Lee was able to
explain that there was so much natural
sound being developed that they were
practically inaudible
for what happened
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cuz she believes herself
alone in the house Evelyn began going
into labor unexpectedly and on her way
to the basement she stepped on a large
nail that caused her to drop a frame
instantly alerting a nearby creature
that made its way into their home
switching the lights to red to signal
that the creatures had arrived she then
made her way to the bathroom in an
anxiety inducing seed struggling not to
make a sound every step of the way
seeing the red lights on display Lee
arrived back onto the farm with Marcus
and instructed him to set off fireworks
as a diversion enabling him to find
Evelyn in the bathroom with their
newborn son Lee then promised his wife
that he would protect them all before
heading out to find Marcus and Regan who
had also recently returned to the farm
after noticing the fireworks sitting
atop of the grain silo both Regan and
Marcus attempted to signal their parents
by lighting a bonfire to no avail
a hatch door then gave way below the
feet of Marcus sending him falling into
the silo the sound of which also sent
the monster trailing Evelyn towards the
location of the children the two kids
ended up helping each other to avoid
suffocating but are attacked by the
vicious creature that responded to the
sound they were making luckily for the
kids Reagan's implant reacted to the
proximity of the creature by emitting a
loud high-frequency sound that drove it
away the kids then reunited with their
father only to have the monster returned
with furious intent severely wounding
Lee in the process Marcus then let out
an impulsive scream attracting the
creature back towards the kids which
viciously began to tear through the
vehicle they were hiding inside Lee then
use sign language to tell both of his
kids that he would always loved them
before screaming at the monster in the
ultimate display of self-sacrifice the
remaining Abbott's then retreated into
the soundproof basement where Regan was
able to see all of her father's notes
and the creatures and his
experimentation with several different
implants when the creature returned to
finish the job Ragan was finally able to
deduce that the sound being made by her
implant caused the creatures distress
leading her to switch it back on and
place it on a nearby microphone which
magnified its effect painfully
disorientated the creature finally
exposed the flesh beneath its armored
head allowing Evelyn to take it down
with a single shotgun hit to the head
the abbot's then see the two remaining
aliens in the vicinity on the CCTV
cameras sprinting towards them but this
time the family was prepared and we saw
everything [ __ ] a shotgun in
anticipation easily my favorite Thriller
of 2018 a quiet place skillfully plays
on our elemental fears with a race of
intelligent and ruthlessly cunning
creatures and a nuclear family that was
determined to survive them one of the
best things about this film is that in
the end both Lee and Evelyn had
succeeded in their quest to protect
their children and inadvertently ended
up discovering weakness to the creatures
due to the fact that they already lived
in a small isolated community it's
likely the Abbott would have passed this
news on to their neighbors as well as
others around the world through the
radio Lee had built in their basement
well that's all for today folks thanks
to all of you guys who requested an
explanation of a quiet place I'm curious
to hear your thoughts and opinions on
the story and creatures featured in the
film so please share those in the
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