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A Quiet Place (English)——————————————

Avengers: Infi nity War(English)

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《寂静之地》

Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe Director: John Krasinski

A Quiet Place

John Krasinski as the father in “A Quiet Place.” File photos

U.S. actor John Krasinski, who turned director with derivative indie comedy “The Hollars” in 2016, shows us what he’s really made of in “A Quiet Place” — and it has little to do with his soft-edged “The Offi ce” persona. With the help of a wholly convincing perfor-mance from his off-and-on-screen wife, Emily Blunt, Krasinski ratchets up the tension in “A Quiet Place,” a smart, spiky and successful thriller which is bound to do roaring business for Paramount globally.

Essentially, this is a fi lm about four silent people in a cottage on a farm, yet the end impression is of a fi lm full of space and noise.

“A Quiet Place” is the rare example of a creature feature which uses spe-cial effects sparingly (and possibly due to budgetary restrictions) in order to amplify the drama onscreen, not solely provide it. It employs the full register of sound, and the lack of any noise, as a dramatic player, inform-ing all the action to the point where Krasinski’s fi lm becomes a startlingly sensory experience. Full of jumps and scares and carefully-crafted twists, its simple plot goes the full distance to end on a perfect cacophony. If this was an easy thing to do, we’d have one of these fi lms every week, but Krasinski’s script delivers human emotion to a suspense-ful genre in a way that even Hitchcock might have enjoyed (there are superfi -cial similarities to “The Birds” here).

The plot is thrillingly straightforward and Krasinski doesn’t pussyfoot around with establishing peril. A pre-credit piece shot in an abandoned super-market and on the road introduces

the eerily silent and terrorized central, un-named family, who communicate by sign language. We can see that the older daughter (a lovely performance from Millicent Simmonds) is wearing a cochlear implant, but this can’t be the only reason why they are all barefoot and so scared to make a noise. All the information the viewer receives is that it’s “Day 89” and there are three chil-dren in the family. Very soon, there will be two.

This is very much a fi lm where ignorance going into the cinema will exponentially increase the entertain-ment inside (and “A Quiet Place” is a defi nite theatrical prospect due to its ingenious sound design alone, although it will eventually play well on all formats). Suffi ce to say that the action quickly moves to Day 472 and in a world where sound is a deadly prob-lem, the mother is heavily pregnant. And this is an issue, given what we all know about screaming babies.

Krasinski, to whom the screenplay is credited along with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, brings elemental

questions to the genre framework: the intense love found within a family, the primordial urge to protect, the true meaning of sacrifi ce, and these success-fully whip the action deeper. He also delivers a couple of skilfully-executed suspense sequences, especially when Blunt’s character steps on a rusty nail. Essentially, this is a fi lm about four silent people in a cottage on a farm, but Krasinski uses the set geography extremely well to open it out and the end impression is of a fi lm full of empty space and noise.

Set design may be a little on-the-nose, but “A Quiet Place” is graced by strong performances all round which eat up attention and viewer focus. Not only are Blunt and Simmonds terrifi c, but Krasinski himself, as the rugged father, gives himself a much stron-ger and more powerful performance than he’s previously delivered for the cinema.

The movie is now being screened in Shenzhen.

(SD-Agencies)

Emily Blunt (L) and Noah Jupe.