So,
the monsters took over the world, defeating all of its nations armies,
etc., but they can be killed by the sound waves emitting from the
daughter’s hearing aid? Did it never occur to the military leaders of
the nations of the world, while they were being defeated by the
monsters, to attack them with sound waves?
I
mean, if you want to get technical, the only one we see gets killed by
the gun, not the sound waves. And judging from the various newspaper
headlines we see throughout the runtime, the preoccupation seems to have
been with finding out how people are being hunted, not how to defeat
the monsters.
Besides which, at the start of the movie, society
is already in shambles, so... yes, no one thought to attack them with
sound waves, obviously. It really irritates me when people nitpick
movies like this that already call for a sizeable suspension of
disbelief.
But
is it a nitpick though? I mean, it’s not really a minor detail. The
notion that these monsters defeated all of the world’s military forces
is kind of an important thing in the movie, no?
And
since you bring up the newspapers, with their headlines “They Hunt By
Sound!” and so forth, it seems like the movie is saying that the press
figured out that the monsters hunt by sound, then had enough time after
that to print newspapers chronicling the fact that the monsters hunt by
sound (before the monsters presumably killed everyone making the noise
involved in printing newspapers), but in all that time it never occurred
to anyone in the military to try to use sound waves as a weapon?
Exactly. I liked the movie, but half the time I was just thinking “the military would have taken these fuckers out by day 2.”
Also
they weren’t killed by sound waves, they were disoriented and it made
their armor come off so Emily Blunt could kill it with a gun. But still,
they’re not indestructible, and the military has drones.
Too
bad he didn’t explain why they would have electric lights and an oil
lamp or why the daughter would still wear her cochlear implant if it
didn’t work.
I
assumed the lights were a warning system that the family could see from
a distance without entering a potentially dangerous home situation.
Some electrical appliances make a very quiet, but not non-existent
humming noise that could not be mistaken for a natural occurrence.
Whether or not that was the reason as to why the oil lamps were used,
that’s just speculation on my part. As for the cochlear implant, maybe
they hoped it would just start working. Everything I stated could very
well be wrong, but that’s the way I saw it.
Is there a scene explaining how they take a shit in this film?
Because I don’t know about you, folks, but if I lived in a world where I couldn’t make any noise, I would be dead by day two.
It’s not like people really need to grunt and moan while shitting like they do in bad comedies.
But that’s half the fun!
OR FARTING?!
Hah! Maybe they would always run a shower as they were taking a shit? As it seems the sound of falling water cancels everything else out.
“A Quiet Place” ***SPOILERS***
So, the monsters took over the world, defeating all of its nations armies, etc., but they can be killed by the sound waves emitting from the daughter’s hearing aid? Did it never occur to the military leaders of the nations of the world, while they were being defeated by the monsters, to attack them with sound waves?
I mean, if you want to get technical, the only one we see gets killed by the gun, not the sound waves. And judging from the various newspaper headlines we see throughout the runtime, the preoccupation seems to have been with finding out how people are being hunted, not how to defeat the monsters.
Besides which, at the start of the movie, society is already in shambles, so... yes, no one thought to attack them with sound waves, obviously. It really irritates me when people nitpick movies like this that already call for a sizeable suspension of disbelief.
Good point!
But is it a nitpick though? I mean, it’s not really a minor detail. The notion that these monsters defeated all of the world’s military forces is kind of an important thing in the movie, no?
And since you bring up the newspapers, with their headlines “They Hunt By Sound!” and so forth, it seems like the movie is saying that the press figured out that the monsters hunt by sound, then had enough time after that to print newspapers chronicling the fact that the monsters hunt by sound (before the monsters presumably killed everyone making the noise involved in printing newspapers), but in all that time it never occurred to anyone in the military to try to use sound waves as a weapon?
Exactly. I liked the movie, but half the time I was just thinking “the military would have taken these fuckers out by day 2.”
Also they weren’t killed by sound waves, they were disoriented and it made their armor come off so Emily Blunt could kill it with a gun. But still, they’re not indestructible, and the military has drones.
Good point, my mistake - I was thinking about “Mars Attacks!”
I loved, loved, loved this movie. And I don’t usually like scary/monster movies. Not a perfect movie but man, it was a lot of fun.
Too bad he didn’t explain why they would have electric lights and an oil lamp or why the daughter would still wear her cochlear implant if it didn’t work.
I assumed the lights were a warning system that the family could see from a distance without entering a potentially dangerous home situation. Some electrical appliances make a very quiet, but not non-existent humming noise that could not be mistaken for a natural occurrence. Whether or not that was the reason as to why the oil lamps were used, that’s just speculation on my part. As for the cochlear implant, maybe they hoped it would just start working. Everything I stated could very well be wrong, but that’s the way I saw it.
Great insider info. I loved this movie.