A Quiet Place Review: An Honest Family Portrait
In narrative fiction, the subject of family is often used as a plot device. Either the family is perfect at the start of the story so that it can be torn apart in the inciting incident or it's the worst family in the world so it can be fixed by the end. To this point, there has not been a film which chooses to depict the average family, showing the bond of love which keeps them together through the best, worst and even average times of life. It's amazing that it took a post-apocalyptic monster thriller to paint an honest, endearing, relatable portrait of the average American family. Some time after an invasion by a mysterious alien race, a family of four is attempting to survive their newly hostile environment. While they try to lead literally quiet lives to avoid being detected by the aliens' super sense of hearing, they attempt to lead relatively normal lives, with their family at the center of their survival. While the film was advertised as a horror/thriller with an