A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place (2018)

7 answered questions since 27 Dec '24, 16:13

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Question: Where is the mailbox with the Abbott's name on it?

Answer: While Lee and Marcus are at the river with the fish traps, Lee begins explaining to his son about safe sounds. It then cuts to Regan walking away from her house, and in the next wide shot facing Regan, the Abbott family mailboxes are on the left side of the screen, with their house in the background (00:36:27).

Super Grover

Question: How do the alien creatures orientate? They're blind but sensitive to noises, so I guess it is supposed to be some kind of echolocation - but first, echolocation is not a way of "seeing" your environments constantly, especially not suitable for running like crazy in a forest full of trees and obstacles. Second, by using echolocation, they should be able to locate moving objects even it's noiseless. So how?

Dangar

Answer: It's not known that the creatures are blind, just known that it isn't their primary sense. Bats use echolocation but (contrary to popular belief) aren't blind.

Answer: No one knows. The aliens are unknown entities and, as yet, humans have little knowledge about their biology or physiology. Any answer would be speculation.

raywest

Question: Why don't they just abandon the place and go to somewhere safer?

Answer: It's a world-wide invasion. There really isn't much of a safer place. And being close to where civilization was is how they are able to keep resources and supplies for their needs. The more remote they go, the harder it will be for them to survive, much less quietly.

Quantom X

Answer: Such as where? They live in what is presumably their house, with all their belongings. Uprooting and walking silently to a new location to set up a new home would be more dangerous than staying where they are.

Question: Why not live underground most of the time and only emerge when necessary?

Answer: That's essentially what the family is trying to do. They come up for supplies and to use the radio to try and reach the outside world. They built the basement area and used what supplies they had for soundproofing.

BaconIsMyBFF

Answer: Unsurprisingly, there weren't any underground living spaces nearby, and creating one would generate sound.

Question: If the waterfall prevents the creatures hearing them, why not live there?

Answer: Building suitable shelter next to a river/waterfall would be next to impossible, and it would be too cold in the winter to rough it.

Phaneron

Answer: Being behind the waterfall limited sound. There wasn't enough room behind the waterfall to live.

Question: The daughter already found out about her cochlear implant giving off a frequency that scared the aliens away, so why did she not turn it on when they were in the truck? If she had, Lee would not have had to sacrifice himself.

Answer: People don't always consider every possibility when they are scared.

Question: How did they climb the grain silo without making noise? Why did the silo door come off its hinges?

Jizzmopper

Answer: 1. Quietly. 2. The hinges weren't able to support the weight of the swinging door that was meant to open outward.

Factual error: Grain engulfment is not depicted in a scientific manner. It is not possible for engulfment to happen without a valve being opened at the base - which has not been shown in the movie when the boy falls in the grain storage. It is very unlikely that two engulfments will happen so close by in the same storage - if so, they will converge quickly. But, the movie shows both victims help each other one by one. They succeed in 5-10 seconds. Engulfment become entrapment in less than 20 seconds and require more than thrice the body weight to pull some one out (unlike one kid being able to pull other one out while both are on the grain). Finally, they both sit on the door and avoid entrapment.

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Suggested correction: It's possible for grain to look sturdy but not be underneath so the engulfment could have possible. But you're right about them not being able to pull each other out.

Well observed. It's a factual error.

I jumped into grain hundreds of times. It is not possible without the grain moving underneath.

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Trivia: Test screenings for this were next to impossible - John Krasinski played the monster in a motion capture suit, but the CGI wasn't completed so audiences kept laughing at him whenever he came on screen instead of being scared by the monster.

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Question: The father seems to be a very scientific guy. But why hasn't he built some "sound-grenades" which they always carry around and throwing them away to distract the dangerous aliens when they are near? (for example loud toys, egg timers, etc.).

Goekhan

Answer: Possibly because it would be too dangerous. Most times an object like that could not be thrown far enough away to allow the family to escape, particularly in a panicked situation. A creature might be momentarily distracted, but would quickly zero in on them as very frightened children would probably be yelling, screaming, and crying.

raywest

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