A Quiet Place: Day 1 Review: More complex and better told than the previous ones.

A Quiet Place: Day 1had to overcome several challenges. On the one hand, it is a prequel to a simple universe, the originality of which was based on the fact that it had very few words. On the other extreme, avoid repetition. In the end, the premise remains the same as in the two previous films. First of all, by focusing the horror of an alien invasion whose main goal is the destruction of the human race on the ability of the survivors to remain silent. An idea taken to extremes in the two previous films reaches a new dimension in the third part. is located, as the name suggests, at the beginning of all the events told in the previous ones.

But that edge — the obligatory, terrified silence that is often impossible to maintain — is different in the new installment. Not only because the setting has changed — from the countryside or outback to New York City — but because no one really understands what makes the creatures attack. Director Michael Sarnoski, who replaced John Krasinski behind the camera and on the script, delves deeper into the idea of ​​horror. Despite the new information about why aliens exist, nothing is taken for granted or obvious.

In fact, the film’s pacing follows the pattern of the previous films: the focus is on the characters, not the crisis that surrounds them. But at the same time, and this is a big change in the film’s structure relative to the saga, it reveals new information about the aliens. How they move – and why they move – and why their attack was so direct, frontal, and ultimately unstoppable. A Quiet Place: Day 1 It can be thought of as an instruction box containing all the important twists that others have already covered. However, this does not make it predictable and therefore repetitive.

A Quiet Place: Day 1 Successes

The most interesting thing about this prequel, which might seem unnecessary if it did not have its own strong personality, is its ability to tell a lot and a little. Which preserves the tradition of the saga, but takes it to another level. In this case, there are more resources, an already planned universe and, obviously, a more careful digital deployment than in the previous films. However, the director (whom we have already seen in Pig with Nicolas Cage) focuses all the dilemmas on Sam (Lupita Nyong’o) and Eric (Joseph Quinn). A smart decision that prevents the film from becoming another disaster movie, smaller in scope and scope than the others.

Until then, it retains the main points of the previous two feature films. So there’s a surprise attack that kicks off the action, and the characters are left wondering what’s really going on. Sam and Eric (she holding a cat) could be anyone in a city in crisis, but the script explores their characteristics and makes them three-dimensional. The story clearly aims to have both Sam and Eric embody all the nuance a character can provide in an extreme situation. A Quiet Place: Day 1 more interested in emotions and empathy, than just a horror show, or at least a show of a terrifying atmosphere.

Yes, there is — the middle section is probably one of the best horror films of the year — but there is more to the film than just that terrifying aspect. There are a lot of emotional moments — and the use of the cat as an emotional element is brilliant — that allow the film to survive second and third readings. Everyone is smart about what we can do to survive, and what we will do to achieve it anyway. A Quiet Place: Day 1 It has the potential to be a solid horror story, but still carry the most weight. argument about everything people must sacrifice in a situation that is superior to them.

A narrated apocalypse for fans of the genre

From how the idea of ​​death and vulnerability is dealt with, to what makes a victim retain their humanity, the director and writer are eloquent enough to tell a story that can represent many people in one universe. Which makes the film less of a prequel and more of a as an approach to what is happening beyond all the horrors he shows in dazzling detail.

Another notable achievement of the film is its use of the New York cityscape in the midst of disaster as an artistic and original feat. The city, which is usually the center of such narratives, is this time a capsule in the middle of a disaster that quickly and gradually grows in layers. But unlike the times when similar situations occurred here, the director opts for beauty. New York A Quiet Place: Day 1 There is a lot of beautiful scenery and traffic. With its crumbling buildings and ruined streets, it remains home to those who flee and those who hide.

Sarnoski has enough visual skill to evoke emotion in those moments when New York is just its most recognizable places. But it has been completely devastated. This gives a sad vision of nostalgia, which the film exploits. in its moments, it is more concerned with the pain of its characters than with what happens beyond it.

With a painful, traumatic and, paradoxically, very sensitive ending, the film is considered the best in the saga. And perhaps the door is open for other similar studies. What is certain is that the director has enough skill to make his characters memorable. This is when he had everything to just make them scapegoats. The best of this film is of unexpected quality.