In 2018, a small-budget monster thriller horror film came out, and that was "A Quiet Place".
Silence is the characteristic of this film and the way to survive, but the criticism received by the film will not be so silent, because the plot does have many hard wounds.
Knowing that monsters are sensitive to sound, why don't they live next to the waterfall?
Obviously monsters use sound to distinguish humans, why not put a tweeter to annoy them?
Knowing that survival is not easy, why is it impossible to overcome the desire to reproduce?
Perhaps the producers also understood that there were problems with the opening setting of the first battle, so when the second sequel came, they began to cleverly avoid these problems.
Three women in a play, like to talk is the nature of women, the most nagging in the family may always be the mother's advice.
However, silence is also a woman's killer skill, ask her what not to say, just let me guess, it is estimated that many boys in love are helpless.
"A Quiet Place 2" continues from the two points of sound and silence, focusing on the power of women in these two aspects, and finally let the audience see a different story.
The world not only needs super women such as Black Widow and Wonder Woman to save, but also an ordinary mother and daughter.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" >01 The town was invaded by monsters</h1>
How does a story come about? How does a good story start?
Robert McKee, Hollywood's first screenwriter, said: "The story urges authors to create works that will excite audiences on six continents and endure. No one needs another recipe for re-sautéing Hollywood scraps.
So let's see how A Quiet Place 2 opens its story.
Audiences who have watched "A Quiet Place" before will inevitably be fooled by the beginning of this movie, because when the upper male protagonist drives to the town, the main road of the town is empty, and it seems that it is not the apocalyptic scene after the invasion of the monster?
This is not the case, the town is too small, and there seems to be not much to be interested in, so on this day everyone goes to the sports field to watch the children play baseball games, and by the way, they also gather to relax.
The town looks like it is indisputable and the years are quiet.
The eldest son of the male owner is playing, but the little boy does not seem to be ready, and he does not dare to swing the ball in the face of the thrown ball, and the courage looks very small.
On the other side, his hearing-impaired sister and his mother have been encouraging him to be brave and perform well.
From here, the story has been foreshadowed, the boys are relatively timid and lack of mobility, while the two women as a family are doing well.
This is also why when the monster invades, the two women in the family will exist in the state of the pillar, which also lays the groundwork for the daughter's independence.
When there was an unexpected storm in the sky, the local dogs were screaming wildly, and when a vision appeared in the sky, the people on the ground were a little panicked, but they did not realize that the end would come so quickly.
From the beginning of the film, when the male protagonist enters the small shop to buy something, there is already news reporting about the monster, but the monster has only begun to invade the earth, so the information is not complete, and the remote location of the town has not been affected.
However, the invasion of monsters was so fierce that people rushed to the scene, not understanding what was happening, and when it was quiet, the quiet town fell.
At this point, the story officially unfolds.
Even people who haven't seen the first film can understand what happened, which is also the customary routine of Hollywood sequel movies, that is, to interpret everything by flashing back, so that the audience will not feel strange because they forget the previous plot.
Only in the second part, due to the sacrifice of the male protagonist in the first part, the burden of the family has completely fallen on two women, one of whom is not yet an adult.
Will they survive?
The curiosity of the audience has been ignited at this time, the world where men cannot survive, what do women rely on to survive?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" >02 Must be strong in the face of difficulties</h1>
"A Quiet Place 2" has a strong story, which can be said to be a climax.
It's a bit like fighting monsters and escalating, every time you will encounter a problem, every time you will be murdered, but in the process, it is to make the audience worry, after all, this day is too sad.
When the original place was already in a sea of fire and there was no man as a pillar, the family of four had to find another safe place.
Where the white sand is not paved, when the mother takes the first step, the theme of the film is already there, that is: exploration.
Explore what the weights are, and that is sound and silence.
This movie is very appropriate, and it can also be seen as a kind of allegory.
Voice and silence are all women are good at, they can chatter endlessly at home, but the intention is good; they can also use silence to face the burden of life, and to be strong is not to let the eyebrows be shaved.
As one of the key sounds of the allegory, the monster destroys the world through sound, which can be said to be the killer of the monster, but the sound is also the deadly source of the monster.
This is also a setting that continues from the first film: where the enemy is most powerful is also where it is most vulnerable.
Take the sound, because of the sound in the film, the family is constantly in a desperate situation, but it is also because of the sound that the family member slowly learns how to survive.
One of the scenes is when the son accidentally steps on the trap and shouts loudly in pain to attract the monster, which cannot be blamed on the son, after all, he is still a child.
As expressed at the beginning of the film, he is not ready to face difficulties.
As the saying goes, women's maturity is always one step ahead compared to men's.
The daughter, who was born with hearing impairment, has become strong in the face of difficulties, so in the face of the monster, the mother and daughter completed a wonderful cooperation for the first time.
The daughter takes the hearing aid to make an unbearable noise for the monster, while the mother hits the monster with one shot and sends the monster directly on the road.
Of course, the setting here is also very important, it is estimated that the monsters have a sense of territory, usually one by one, otherwise a large group of monsters will come out like in "Tomorrow's War", and it is estimated that the mother and daughter will not be able to do anything.
No matter what, defeat is also a voice, and if you want to survive, cooperation is the only way out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" >03 Humans are sometimes more terrifying than monsters</h1>
Curiosity and the spirit of exploration are the most basic driving forces of human development, and without this spirit, human beings are doomed to perish.
The film "Rushing Out of Serenity" also illustrates this point in the case of the mistakes made by humans on the colonization of the planet.
Due to the whim of some human scientists and elites, they put a chemical agent in the air of the colonized planet, so that everyone's temper will become softer, there is no struggle, no conflict, and the result is a planetary tragedy.
The people who colonized the planet have lost their curiosity and spirit of exploration, and everyone is very peaceful, so peaceful that they do not work, do not speak, do not eat, and eventually evolve in addition to death, some people become inhuman thugs.
Human nature cannot be fundamentally changed, which is the inevitability of human survival.
A Quiet Place 2 has made curiosity and exploration a minor theme from the beginning, and driven by this theme, the film opens two main plot lines before it is halfway through.
Mother this line is shoucheng, mainly to see too much death and helplessness, so as long as you live well, it will be done.
The daughter's line is to explore, for the daughter, there is no concept of home, some are not only good to live, more importantly, to live happily, since they have found that their hearing aids have an impact on monsters, it is necessary to make good use of it.
This is another small feature of this movie, the combination is winning, so is the score a win or a loss?
In these two main lines, sound and silence are still the main themes, and this has not changed.
The daughter still relies on sound to move forward, without the help of sound and hearing aids, she can only be helpless.
Because of the mother's pleading, the neighbor uncle finally agreed to come out to find the daughter who was walking alone, and after finding it, one of the scenes was that the uncle took the girl's hearing aid and amplification device as an umbrella to find the boat, but the girl fell asleep and did not know.
After waking up, the girl is terrified in the face of the silent world, and here the audience is a little worried about human nature, is it the uncle who deliberately took it?
The uncle found the boat, but the conflict continued, because some people had humanity, some people did not, so when they encountered a group of robbers, they also used sound weapons, and the monster became a tool for them to use.
If the audience sees this, it is estimated that they will sigh that sometimes people are more terrifying than monsters.
They find a utopian island, the uncle to the girl, she is right, she is the continuation of her father's spirit.
In fact, there seems to be utopian fantasies in both main lines.
One is in a local fort and the other islet in the middle of the ocean (fortunately the monsters can't swim).
But will utopianism survive? The climax of everything has officially begun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45">End</h1>
Plato once wrote a classic work, The Republic, but it never came to fruition.
Because there has never been a utopian dream that exists in reality, after all, human nature is complex, and the external environment is more complicated.
Therefore, at the end of the two main lines, no matter how strong the fortress or the small island in the ocean, they all greeted their most critical moments of life and death.
The highlight of the daughter began.
When she hung her hearing aids on the microphones of the radio, the children finally grew up.
Two supposedly stronger adults became witnesses of history, under the gaze of their mother and uncle.
This side of the son bravely stepped out, faced the monster, and picked up the pistol. On the other side, the daughter took the stick and went to face the monster like this.
The gunshots rolled down, and in the two main lines, almost at about the same time, the two children put an end to the monster.
Has the world been delivered from the hands of adults to the hands of children?
Yes and no.
No, it is because the child's physical fitness is still weak, and it needs the protection of adults after all.
Yes, it is because a strong spirit will be inherited, as long as you dare to think and insist on your dreams, you will be able to succeed.
Of course, this time it is two women who are the protagonists, and there are still women in this world! This is also a routine that Hollywood likes, telling the majority of women that the power of women has risen.
Finally, Hollywood screenwriters always like to dig holes, so when the film came to an abrupt end, most people had already guessed that a third sequel might be on the way.