A Quiet Place

Peace and quiet. The two go together so well they’re often mentioned in concert, as demonstrated by the preceding sentence. Quiet is often conflated with peace and vice versa, however the relationship between the two may not be as close as people are willing to admit. Few would characterize the bone chilling silence immediately following a bombed joke at a comedy club as “peaceful”, and sometimes even the personal reticence of a taciturn man wearing a placid expression can be little more than a mask hiding great sorrow and uncertainty. But that’s a matter for my therapist, for our purposes you just need to understand that silence may be golden, but it can also be spooky. Nowhere is this more clear than in A Quiet Place, a 2018 horror film directed by John Krasinski. This compact burst of originality and unbearable tension made quite the splash when it frightened annoying old people into silence the world over and proved popular enough to spawn a whole slew of silent sequels. Today, though, we’ll be limiting ourselves to the one that started it all, so get ready to assume your best library decorum and be sure to check your rickety old stairs for rogue spikes of metal. Begin!Contact us/Requests/Questions: [email protected]: https://paypal.me/magellensmovies?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US