As the Andrews travel from the city into the countryside, where they hope that seclusion and silence will ensure their survival, they are forced to make morally conflicting choices. This is an intense story filled with difficult choices that highlight the harsh realities of living in an apocalyptic, distopian world. This is further complicated by the fact that their teenage daughter, Ally, is deaf. 2 It follows the Andrews family as they struggle to survive the infestation of a “deadly, primeval species who have bred for decades in the pitch darkness of a vast underground cave system…” 3 This primitive species is blind and they hunt using impeccable hearing, thus, as the Andrews seek refuge they are forced to remain as quiet as possible. Leonetti, starring Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, and Miranda Otto. ( source)īased on the 2015 novel by Tim Lebbon 1, The Silence is a Netflix original film directed by John R. The Silence Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka in The Silence (2019). For audiences who may not have seen either movie, this article will contain spoilers. Deirdre Johnston in finding the connection between audiences’ fascination with fear and film. The following article will be a detailed analysis simultaneously analyzing The Silence and A Quiet Place in conjunction with why Hollywood has this growing fascination with horror stories and sound. Not only does it call back to the classic silent horror films of the 1920’s, but it exemplifies the works of Dr. The rise of films that follow this specific model is both intriguing and exciting.
In this connection, there is a visible pattern that these types of stories consists of that includes: 1) A family unit that is trying to survive, 2) A post-apocalyptic setting either taking place right before, during, or sometime after a cataclysmic event, 3) An entity with acute hearing hunting the family, 4) The family has to make as little noise as possible. With the release of A Quiet Place in 2018 and The Silence in 2019, there is an unmistakable fascination in the connection between horror films and sound. Hollywood’s Fascination with Silence and Horror A Quiet Place.
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