Mum's Monday: A Quiet Place

Featuring guest writer: Antony Hudson

The start of the film, you know what happened to the rest of the area and you quickly know why the family in this film has survived so long, which leaves the film with a small cast but that is all this film needs.

It is sad to see that a child will still want to be and act like a child and not see the dangers they can put themselves and their family in.

This is a unique film and well executed. The pacing was written well to keep the audience knowing what is going on at all times. The film is written well to accommodate the lack of dialogue without the need of subtitles. The tense moments were not completely overshadowed by loud music, just perfectly atmospheric for each situation. As a horror film, it is scary. There are a few good jump scares, but it mostly focuses on the tense, unrelenting silence, where at any moment a normal noise would sound off, and due to the atmosphere, each normal noise is automatically amplified – and these scenes you find yourself on the edge of your seat throughout, not knowing entirely what’s going to happen as the creatures are mainly kept hidden.

As the film progresses you wonder how a normal happy event is going to stay quiet, but the solution is worked out really well, including the light signalling system which is a brilliant idea.

There is one part I cannot watch with the nail but it gives the film enough intrigue and to keep you interested. As you are on the edge of your seat most of this film, this gives it a whole new level.

The film is perfectly long enough and ends at exactly the right time, because it no longer needs to be ‘A Quiet Place’ but it is sad to see the solution wasn’t worked out before tragedy struck though.

This film made me question my noisy life and how and what I would need to do to stay quiet if my life and my family’s life depended on it.

This is a genius idea for a film and every aspect had to be thought out even down to the counters used on a board game for family entertainment. The people who made this film wasn’t just making a film they were making a quiet family life which although a great idea they didn’t give themselves an easy task to accomplish, but managed to pull it off all the same.