There is a kind of movie that is easy to touch, because you have to hold your breath. Watching a movie, the legs are weak, the seat cannot be moved, and the pressure is too great in the face of the gaze of the cleaning aunt.
But the movie can really be filmed, and I can't help but rush into the cinema every time, after all, I haven't seen a movie that is silent in the whole screening hall for a long time. Friends who have been coaxed by talking about the plot on the phone and snoring before and after the phone and snoring know that kind of happiness.
Yes, the movie that made the audience afraid to speak, the sequel came – "A Quiet Place 2".
Remember the hysterical recommendation of Star Lord when the first film was released in 2018?
The first part of the series has a core setting: talk, will die, yawn, will die, fart, will die, in short, the sound will die.
Doomsday + Monsters + Silent = A new type of doomsday genre film that has never been seen before.
The film not only won a global box office of $270 million at a cost of $17 million, but also scared 218 million yuan in the mainland film market, a veritable annual box office dark horse, word of mouth, and box office explosion.
Don't understand the question: walk into the theater to be scared half dead, scared the first time to be scared a second time, scared to give praise, really have this kind of person? Needless to say, there are a lot of them.
"Silent 2" opened on Rotten Tomatoes, with a freshness rating of 91%, and later rose to 93%.
MetaCritics, a website that has always been less popular with thrillers, gave a super high rating of 73 points.
Why is it so dragged?
With "A Quiet Place 2" perfectly inheriting the advantages of the previous game, the high-concept setting continues to expand, but at the same time, it has a full range of evolution in terms of horror atmosphere, big scenes, and story. The high-concept, medium-cost thriller 3 years ago already had the potential of a disaster blockbuster.
Although the male protagonist of the previous film did not return, the "scarecrow" of "Batman" Killian Murphy appeared for the first time since the film, not to mention more surprises.
The most powerful thing is that the film has both the shell of the lungs and the emotional core of the end of the heart, which can make people reminisce endlessly.
To use a rotten but accurate word: high-class.
Not much to say, together with the plate, this new classic horror IP sequel, how to cure my years of cinema irritability at once?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > don't make a sound, you will die</h1>
Before telling the story, it is necessary to briefly describe the previous work.
The first story takes place in the not-too-distant past, when a meteorite falls to Earth in 2020, bringing with it an alien creature wearing armor and hating noise.
Monsters invaded The Earth, and within 3 months, the Earth fell.
Although the monster is blind, it hears a sound of more than 30 decibels and closes its throat.
If you want to live, you must keep quiet...
The protagonist is a family of four and lives a silent life.
According to the reason, if you don't make a sound, you are safe, but no one in life is in case, not to mention that the protagonist's family still has a newborn baby.
It is said that there was only one line in the original script, and the director made a modification. But by the time the first audible line appeared, 37 minutes had passed. The big ending of the story is that after the father confessed to the whole family, he sacrificed himself to save the whole family.
After the film was released, it was praised by horror fiction master Stephen King: "'A Quiet Place' is a masterpiece! The silent, tense and exciting atmosphere created is gripping. "Of course, there are also angry star lords."
This kind of explosive dark horse, of course, there must be a sequel, the first release in 2018 is planned to release a sequel in 2020, the epidemic reason is postponed by one year, but the good meal is not afraid of late.
The story of the sequel continues to revolve around the heroine's family, after the father sacrificed for the family, the mother can only lead the children to leave the homeland and migrate in the silent end times, but the monster's footsteps are closer.
If the protagonist's family of four in the previous game is told how to survive, then "A Quiet Place 2" extends the existential crisis from a single family to the survivor group, telling how human survivors survive.
Shortly after the heroine's family went out, they fell into the trap designed by the monster, and were saved by a mysterious masked man at a critical moment, which is the male protagonist of this film.
Later, her daughter Regan heard the song from the radio and thought that the address of the broadcast was a small island, and this island should be the last utopia of mankind. So the daughter ignored her mother's objections and left alone at night.
The next day, after the heroine found out that her daughter had left, she asked the man to bring her daughter back.
The story begins to be divided into two lines, one line is that the male protagonist tracks Regan to the mysterious island, and the other line is that the female protagonist and her son Marcus and the baby hide in the underground warehouse to escape the monster's hunting.
As a result, whether it is to advance the narrative rhythm or create a terrifying atmosphere of slaughter tension, the former male protagonist who has received a bento in the previous film and the choreographer of this film, John Krasinski, began to use a lot of parallel editing.
It's worth mentioning that the two main actors, Emily Blunt and Kirihan Murphy, are my dishes.
The former has performed eye-catching in films such as "Edge of Tomorrow", and is a great beauty recognized by Hollywood as having acting skills, being able to fight, and doing incredible push-ups.
The last time she married her husband, Emily Blunt impressed with her superb performance, returned to show gentle strength, and hoped to save people in the end of the world.
On a different side from the heroine is the new character who has joined this time, the mysterious man who has witnessed and fallen into despair of human nature after witnessing and encountering a great change, this new role is played by Kirian Murphy.
Audiences who have seen him in "28 Days of Shock" and "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" should know that this acting school has both good and evil faces, especially good at playing the dark side of the character.
But his despair of human nature in this film is not without reason:
First, after the fall of the earth, the monsters became more ferocious and lurked in all corners of the world.
Second, in the last days, human beings compete for resources in order to survive, and people's hearts are unfathomable, and good and evil are difficult to distinguish.
Of all the doomsday thrillers, the most terrifying thing is never the monster, but the mutated human heart.
In the process of tracking the heroine's daughter, the male protagonist did encounter a mysterious group that gave up humanity for resources.
But John Krasinski, the director of this film who became famous in the American drama "Office", did not portray all the characters as all evil people, but really created a human utopia.
It also creates new suspense, some of the "people who survive, the way they become, are not the kind of people worth saving." ”
But there are also survivors who are "co-creating new lives".
So for the male and female protagonists, is it to enter the beautiful dream utopia of human nature together, or to the purgatory of human nature that "others are hell"?
Another huge suspense in the film is: Can humans really only be fish and meat forever?
Although the monsters have a bulletproof ability of 666+, noise is their death hole.
The frequency of the hearing aid made by the male protagonist to his daughter in the upper part has been able to cause strong stimulation to the monsters, forcing them to open the "protective shield" of the head with a headache, and the female protagonist has a headshot.
This time, what will the survivors rely on to defeat the monster? Does humanity have a chance to turn over?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="134" > bigger and scarier? </h1>
It is not difficult to see that "A Quiet Place 2" has been strengthened again, whether it is the plot setting, the sense of horror or suspense. This change and upgrade, even the change in the film slogan can be seen.
Previous: Keep quiet.
Sequel: Keep quiet isn't the only way to survive.
What do you mean? Is it that just keeping quiet is no longer useful, or are humans starting to be anti-guest-oriented? No spoilers, watch for yourself.
But one of the most direct changes is that with the previous popular science, the sequel paving has become significantly less, that is, dry.
There is a scene in the film where the heroine takes the children to the town, and is careful to hit the mechanism set by the monster, the rope moves, and the bottles and cans all fall to the ground, making a loud noise.
The heroine has no nonsense, and a word pops out of her mouth - Run!
Compared to many thrillers that rely on the heroine to stupidly advance the plot, I hate the director to kill her quickly. "A Quiet Place 2" does not have such a problem, the monster and the human throughout the battle of wits and courage, both sides always keep iq online, the behavior is reasonable, are fighting for survival.
However, while continuing the advantages of the previous work, it can still be seen that the director has comprehensively upgraded the film.
First: visual upgrades.
One of the most immediate feelings is that the atmosphere of doom is stronger.
Compared to the occasional warm family scenes in the first film, all the scenes in the sequel are full of slaughter.
The apocalyptic composition similar to that of a child standing in a broken train car adds a sense of desolation to the apocalyptic background. The last bloodthirsty creature that held the pipa and half-covered face finally appeared, and in appearance, the slender hook and claws of the skull were jagged, which made people creepy to see, further adding to the sense of terror of the end times.
Second, type upgrades.
Compared with the first doomsday scene, which relies on the protagonist group to describe the audience's brain in detail, the monsters in the second part are like the zombies that cannot be killed in "Resident Evil", overwhelmingly conveying fear to the movie.
It can be seen that the director is obviously wide, and the doomsday scene of "brain supplement" in the previous work, the second part, are all arranged.
On the heroine's escape road, monsters appeared on the street and in the room in the daytime, overturning cars and hunting humans, and panic and fear spread rapidly.
If the first film can also be seen that the director is doing the dojo in the screws and creating a small and medium-cost thriller, then this film is obviously a big step towards a disaster blockbuster while maintaining the high concept setting and horror fun of the original work.
Third, the atmosphere of terror has escalated.
It is often said that thrillers have two levels.
One is the scare type of horror, which scares you with sound effects or sudden appearances (ghosts, anomalies). The audience is like riding a roller coaster, obviously all the organs are going to be thrown out, but they just want to play again.
The higher level is the fear type of horror, with psychological hints that make you think more and more afraid. That fear is often invisible, invisible, but entangled in the heart.
A Quiet Place 2, at first glance, is the first. A lot of almost silent film shooting was used - the movement of the camera, the space and the position of the camera were constantly accumulating momentum, making the horror pervasive.
When everything was silent, even the viewer couldn't help but hold his breath, but suddenly rushed out of a monster and "snapped"! Just say you're afraid?!
In thrillers, Jump Scare is often a relatively low-level technique, but in this "silent" film, it becomes an indispensable presence.
But there is another kind of fear-type horror in the film.
The setting of the end of the world is easy to produce a sense of urgency, plus monsters always appear suddenly and disappear quickly, just like the classic monster films of "Jaws", "Alien", and "The Mist", monster attacks, the audience does not dare to breathe, the monster is invisible, and the audience does not dare to breathe.
Moreover, under the apocalyptic crisis, this part also increases the confrontation between people.
The fusion of the two will make you gradually realize that terror, like air, has spread throughout the world. Fear strikes from all directions at any time, and there is no escape from ideas.
Ultimately, it's A Quiet Place 2 that aptly associates apocalyptic apocalypse and horror suspense, Jump Scare and psychological fear.
Overlay, expand, create a double effect. That sense of immersion allows the audience to be sucked into the whole story, as if the monster is around, waiting for you to scream.
But is that enough? There is also a fourth upgrade: the suspense skill upgrade.
Excellent thriller horror movies will create an organic sense of tension, it is not always running wild, let people be frightened the whole time, nor is it on the lake that has always been calm as water, the really good thriller, the tension is also rhythmic, like a curve, let the audience with the film ups and downs.
Director John Krasinski's new narrative approach to this film is: parallel editing.
Relative to the first part is just to let people "hold their breath", the parallel editing of the second part, the multiple protagonists in different scenes, while encountering danger, photography, sound effects, scenes, scripts, performances perfectly coordinated, the fate of the protagonists like several roller coasters at the same time, just ask: Do you dare to breathe?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="135" > I was finally moved by a thriller</h1>
But, just scare the audience and it's over?
The best thrillers also have to be upgraded to express deeper values.
The "Silent Places" series can win high praise, not only to bring the audience a unique horror viewing experience, but also to warm people to the core of family affection.
However, the family presentation of "A Quiet Place 2" is completely different from the first one.
If the first is in the context of apocalyptic despair, a pair of parents protect their children with silent love.
This, then, places humanity and emotion in the last days.
In this silent escape, human beings are fully exposed to the diversity and complexity of human nature for survival.
Some alienated humans are actually more terrifying than monsters.
But the great love of mankind in the last days is so touching.
Not only the heroine's family, but also more survivors. When the monster invades the Doomsday Island, a black uncle and the male protagonist lure the monster away.
However, because he was worried that the monster would go back to kill his family, he was accidentally killed by the monster.
A similar heart-warming core of affection made many viewers cry with their fists clenched in their fists during the climactic scene.
Many viewers still remember the first film where the father finally shouted fearlessly to save the child, which was the most selfless love of parents for their children: I love you and can die for you.
And this one, when the children grow up, the son Marcus amplifies the noise broadcast by his daughter Regan through the radio, making the monster painful and unbearable, saving the mother, in fact, completing a kind of closed loop of affection: I have grown up, and it is my turn to cover you.
In the end, the scene of the family fighting back against the monster at the same time is not only the visual climax and plot climax of the film, but also the emotional climax of the whole film.
The really powerful thriller is not a shock at first glance, but an unforgettable one.
Of course, the ability to complete this big reversal is also due to the two young actors Milicent Simmons and Noah Yuppe, who and the two powerful acting schools have jointly completed this human counterattack in the silent place.
This dual sense of substitution of horror and warmth has always been lingering in the cinema, and the fear in repression and the redemption between despair have been magnified by "silence".
Why do audiences love to watch thrillers? Because human fears are diverse.
The thriller presents a world of peril, thus shattering our assumptions about the conventional safe world.
The "unknown" is like Pandora's box, and fear stems from uncertainty.
However, in the film, in this unknown apocalyptic world, the redemption brought by family affection has become the greatest certainty in the apocalypse.
This is also where A Quiet Place 2 is far more advanced than other ordinary thrillers.
It provides not only fear, but also warmth.
Not only create a runaway, but also a thrilling G-spot because of the runaway.
It also provides courage to face the loss of control, telling people why people can summon up the courage to fight one in the face of evil - because everyone is not an island, everyone has someone to protect.
At the end of the movie, the tortured protagonist's family is finally redeemed in love, which is probably the warmest ending given to the audience by the director.
But after the whole movie, in fact, you can find that there are still many pits that have not been repaired.
For example, what happened to the male protagonist's family on the first day of the monster invasion. For example, when the story begins to develop beyond the American continent, what kind of more terrifying global apocalyptic landscape will be shown in the upcoming "A Quiet Place 3"?
The answer is left to the future, for ordinary people who are urged by the monster of life every day, this film is definitely a good opportunity to indulge in excitement and crazy decompression.
People who hate cinema noise, this film has created the quietest cinema in history for you.
Only in the cinema can you experience the tension that dozens of people dare not breathe.
But if you decide to walk into a theater, I have only one reminder: Remember, hold your breath...