{"id":1170,"date":"2018-07-10T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2018-07-01T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T22:38:30","slug":"movie-a-quiet-place-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/10\/movie-a-quiet-place-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: A Quiet Place (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a0\/A_Quiet_Place_film_poster.png\" alt=\"A Quiet Place\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" \/>A Quiet Place<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 90 minutes \/ 1.50 hours<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a fan of horror. In recent decades, the \u201cgorenography\u201d surrounding the genre seemed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Jump scares and excessive on-screen violence were the norms. It seems that films like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/movie-get-out-2017\/\">Get Out<\/a><\/em> (2017) have changed that, judging by how expertly <em>A Quiet Place<\/em> (2018) still holds to some of the horror tropes but tells a story that\u2019s much more thrilling than seeing a group of people gored to death one-by-one. In the end, <em>A Quiet Place<\/em> is expert storytelling at its finest, based partly on how adeptly it uses the medium of film to convey its horror.<\/p>\n<p>While there seemed to be a few minor plot holes and curious decisions on the part of the characters, I\u2019m just going to chalk them up to \u201chorror logic\u201d and move on to why I think this film is required viewing, even for people who hate horror movies. What strikes me so much about this film is the raw terror of the characters, which is then passed off onto the audience in a way that dialogue, narration, or reading can\u2019t accomplish. When we take away one of the fundamental things that make us all human\u2014our ability to make noise\u2014then suppressing that natural ability in order to survive ratchets up the tension to epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Quiet Place <\/em>uses all the tricks in the filmmakers\u2019 toolkit, especially since it goes in with limited audio and full visuals. Great moments of foreshadowing are only surpassed by the cringe-inducing moments when someone screws up and makes a noise. The amount of thought that went into creating a world where making noise could get you killed is in prime form here and is included in even the most subtle details throughout. Sure, there are scary moments in this movie, but the ending is so incredibly satisfying that these moments are completely worth it.<\/p>\n<p>A prime example of expert storytelling, I give <em>A Quiet Place<\/em> 4.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Quiet Place Year: 2018 Rating: PG-13 Length: 90 minutes \/ 1.50 hours I\u2019m not a fan of horror. In recent decades, the \u201cgorenography\u201d surrounding the genre seemed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Jump scares and excessive on-screen violence were the norms. It seems that films like Get Out (2017) have changed that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[1020,1373,1111,332,1374,13,8],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-5-stars","category-movie","tag-1020","tag-a-quiet-place","tag-get-out","tag-horror","tag-john-krasinski","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}