I don’t know if anyone is like me. Once I dreamed that I was walking with my father. I was caught in the back. The father who was walking in the front didn't know it. I yelled hard but couldn't make a sound. Finally, I woke up in a huge panic. Being silenced is one of the deepest fears of mankind. This kind of despair is like being locked in a thick glass cover, unable to cry, unable to ask for help.
A few years ago, Part I of "A Quiet Place" threw out a "voicing death" setting: monsters kill humans based on their voices, and survivors have to silence themselves. When watching the first part, due to the limitation of viewing conditions (non-cinema environment) and disapproval of a certain plot, I gave a not very good score. But after watching the second part, I was pleasantly surprised to find that with the first part of the film, the second part of the movie watching process can achieve an immersive experience. It should not be an exaggeration to say that it is the most suitable movie for the big screen this year.
How can you describe this experience? ——Sit there, no matter how nervous and afraid, I dare not move, for fear that he would make a noise and kill the protagonist; if there is an audience in the theater whose cell phone rang, I guess he may not be able to walk out of the theater alive-this is also the case The success of this series of high-concept films.
It is said that film is an audio-visual art. In the not-so-long film history, we have remembered many images and pictures, but for ordinary audiences, they may not care so much about the narrative of sound. It has to be said that while the "Quiet Place" series broadens the boundaries of thriller genres, it also forms a new interactive experience of watching movies.
Watching is an active behavior, we can close our eyes when we encounter scenes we don't want to see. Listening is a passive behavior. We cannot avoid sound unless we stop the vibration of the sound source. Therefore, in the process of "watching" a movie, we are more likely to be affected by sound. In the past, I always felt that some visual blockbusters were created for the big screen, but now I feel that "aural" blockbusters like "A Quiet Place 2" are a strong argument for the necessity of cinemas-a good cinema auditory system can improve the look and feel of the film N orders of magnitude!
The strong sense of being brought into the movie is actually related to our real life experience. If you have the memory of sneaking out to play while your parents are taking a nap, then you must know: It's really hard not to make any noise! Walking, fetching, opening the door, any link may wake up the sleeping person. Even if we remain rational, it will be more difficult to control in emergencies. For example, when we saw Marcus stepping on the trap and couldn't help but scream-the pain we all know triggered the instinct for help-we just wanted to rush up to cover his mouth.
In addition to the strong auditory immersion, there are also many surprises in the lens language and editing techniques of this film. Here are a few treatments that I particularly like.
In one place, Evelyn found that the newborn's oxygen cylinder had reached the alert level. He looked up at his son (at least the audience thought she was looking at his son), and immediately picked up a silhouette of a sleeping child. The picture was extremely quiet—the lens was tiny. Dust fluttered in the light beams, and the child slept deeply, and then suddenly woke up-it turned out that this was not the injured Marcus, but the sister Regan, who was sleeping alone at the train station, and his mood suddenly changed from calm to nervous. This is the charm of editing: it forms deceptive guidance, completes time-space transformation, and promotes emotional ups and downs.
After the family was forced to separate into three lines, the director used a very beautiful cross-cut. Their footsteps overlap, their breath overlaps, and they separate but seem to be together all the time. The cross-editing creates an atmosphere of constant tension and a sense of strength that is constantly moving forward. In the final climax, the three lines are in one. The connection of the plot is completed through the radio wave and contributed the most burning scene in the film: the two children are blocked between the monster and the adult, and they have completed a clean lore. .
From the perspective of genre elements, "A Quiet Place 2" combines the two types of horror and disaster well. The opening chapter restores the first day when the disaster arrives: an ordinary day with a beautiful wind, and alien creatures descend from the sky. Then skip the whole part I and go to the 474th day: How can Evelyn, who lost her husband and the "fortress" of safety, take two minor children and a newborn baby to survive in this crisis-ridden world?
Driven by the Hollywood industry, we have watched too many large-scale disaster films. Most of them use visual spectacles as their selling point to discuss the future of mankind from a grand perspective. However, the disaster films that have impressed me in recent years are often narratives from a small perspective, such as "The Survival Family" and "The Backlit Man". What we care about is how this family should survive and how to get along. And grow.
After watching the first part, many people are asking how the second part can be filmed, whether the mother wants to become a super soldier to save everyone, and whether there will be more social issues to be discussed. I am very happy to see that "A Quiet Place 2" still continues the narrative perspective of the first part. It does not discuss the big propositions too much, nor does it exaggerate the power of one of the characters, but focuses on the growth of each character. The foreshadowing that the director laid in the first part is extended in this part, and it also paves the way for the third part. In general, the future of the "Quiet Place" series is quite worth looking forward to.
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