{"id":1186,"date":"2018-10-31T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2018-11-03T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:44:59","slug":"review-a-quiet-place-2018-dir-john-krasinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/review-a-quiet-place-2018-dir-john-krasinski\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Quiet Place (2018, Dir. John Krasinski)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have concluded the nine amazing films in our Resilience series<\/a>, and what better way to end October than showing one of the best scary movies over the last decade the day before Halloween?\u00a0 A Quiet Place\u00a0<\/em>is a 2018 drama\/thriller directed, co-written, and starring John Krasinski, who is most famous for his role as Jim Halpert on NBC\u2019s The Office<\/em>.\u00a0 Krasinski brilliantly directs A Quiet Place <\/em>from beginning to end, showing the story of surviving the apocalypse through love, trust, and resilience.<\/p>\n

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Director, co-writer, and\u00a0actor John Krasinski gives an interview about the film.<\/p><\/div>\n

A Quiet Place <\/em>is set in the year 2020, so the not-so-distant future, where strange alien creatures have taken over the world.\u00a0 They are totally blind but have ultra sensitive hearing.\u00a0 If you make even the slightest peep, they will hear you, find you, and kill you.\u00a0 The Abbott family, lead by father Lee (Krasinski) and wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt, Krasinski\u2019s real-life wife) have perfected sign language, due to their oldest daughter Regan (played by real-life deaf actor Milicent Simmons) being deaf, so they are able to communicate in order to survive.\u00a0 Similar to how Guillermo del Toro\u2019s The Shape of Water <\/em><\/a>uses sign language in order to show love and connection, the Abbott family uses it in order to survive and stay ahead of everyone.<\/p>\n

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Lee Abbott (Krasinski) gives the quiet sign to his family while out hunting.<\/p><\/div>\n

A Quiet Place<\/em> depicts resilience as much as any film in our series.\u00a0 The Abbott family are nearly all alone and need to survive by speaking to each other through sign language.\u00a0 Regan, the older child who is deaf, is filled with grief and anger. However, she is determined to do something for her family.\u00a0 She tries to prove herself to her dad, which causes her and her brother to be imperiled. That situation requires her, her brother, and her father to demonstrate resilience in the face of the monsters’ horrifying threat.<\/p>\n

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Regan (Millicent Simmons) and Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) look on in horror as their brother\/son is threatened by an alien.<\/p><\/div>\n

Paternal responsibility has been a common theme we have seen in our film series, with examples in films such as Moonlight<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and Eighth Grade.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0A Quiet Place <\/em>is no exception, as we see Lee and Evelyn having to make sure not only that they survive, but that their children do as well, teaching them the necessary art of survival.\u00a0 Lee invents special hearing ads for Regan, showing his intelligence and survival instincts.\u00a0 When an pregnant goes into labor, all alone in the house and wounded, the aliens appear.\u00a0 She has to remain calm and silent through the pain of childbirth.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t make a sound until her son lights off rockets as sound distraction, allowing her to cry out in pain,\u00a0 Evelyn displays her resilience and will to protect her unborn child in the most difficult circumstance.<\/p>\n

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Evelyn Abbott (Blunt) gives birth in the families’ bathtub while trying to remain dead silent<\/p><\/div>\n

Overall, the movie demonstrates resilience in one of the most epic situations, that being the apocalypse.\u00a0 A Quiet Place <\/em>is a credit to the directing talent of John Krasinski and the acting talent of his wife Emily Blunt.\u00a0 Not only is it a film that demonstrates a remarkable amount of resilience, but it is one that also reimagines what true horror–evoked primarily through silence–can be.\u00a0\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/em> acts as the perfect cap to out film series relating to Resilience, echoing themes of survival and the ability to overcome adversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have concluded the nine amazing films in our Resilience series, and what better way to end October than showing one of the best scary movies over the last decade the day before Halloween?\u00a0 A Quiet Place\u00a0is a 2018 drama\/thriller directed, co-written, and starring John Krasinski, who is most famous for his role as Jim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[34,48,54],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-reviews","tag-ben-glomski","tag-horror","tag-resilience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}