She meant well, but it’s an almost impossible task that she and her brother Marcus (Noah Jupe) are faced with, maintaining total silence as a way of life. Regan (Millicent Simmonds) is the oldest child, deaf since birth, and she’s the one carrying the biggest load of guilt since she’s the one who gave Beau the batteries. It’s enormously effective as a way of getting things started, and it breaks the family deeply in the process. Before there’s even time to react, tragedy strikes, and we jump forward by 400 days or so. As they walk home, the toy goes off, and everyone realizes the little guy put the batteries back in. Everyone’s tense until Lee (Krasinski) takes out the batteries. They stock up on some things, and as they go to leave, Beau (Cade Woodward), the youngest boy, grabs a toy off the shelf.
Inside an old drugstore, a family moves around, barefoot, careful not to make any noise at all. The film’s hook is simple, and the opening scene plays out perfectly without a word. Krasinski deserves credit for seeing just how simple their hook was, and the end result of the collaboration between all of them is a terrific, broadly entertaining movie that manages to squeeze every bit of possible suspense out of its setting. They had a big hook, and they approached the script unconventionally, creating a document that emphasized the silence that is so definitely a character in the film, something that barely looked like a screenplay at all.
The most impressive thing about John Krasinski’s third film as a director is just how controlled everything is, which can be make or break when you’re trying to terrify your audience.Ī QUIET PLACE began life as a no-budget film that Bryan Woods and Scott Beck wrote to direct themselves.
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