So A Quiet Place 2 has released this week, and I have had a chance to see the film and
catch all the latest monster drama with the Abbott family.
With the second entry in this series, there's things to unpack surrounding
the plot, the ending, the monsters, their origins and where we go from here.
I'm going to be explaining all of this for A Quiet Place Part 2, in the aim to help you
guys gather a greater sense of what happened and how the sequel has built on the first
film.
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But without further ado, let's dive into the ending, plot and monsters of A Quiet Place
2 explained.
So three years after we left them, the Abbott family are back in A Quiet Place Part 2 and
now they know how to defeat the aliens.
The sequel opens with a flashback to Day 1 of the apocalypse, but then the main
action picks up straight after the events of the first movie on Day 474, and the Abbotts
are faced with going out into the world.
With Regan determined to fight back against the aliens, she embarks on a dangerous quest
with Emmett, played by Cillian Murphy, while Emily Blunt's Evelyn tries to keep
her son Marcus and her newborn baby safe from the alien threat.
The first movie ended with two aliens racing towards the Abbott house, but while we don't
see Evelyn kill them, we see their bodies on the floor of the basement when
Regan goes to pick up the radio before the Abbotts left their home.
It's not long before they come into trouble, however, as Marcus gets his leg caught in
a bear trap, attracting the aliens' attention.
Emmett arrives just in time to save them and lets them take shelter in the bunker he's
living in.
We learn that it was one of Emmett's fires that John Krasinski's Lee saw in the first
movie.
We also saw Emmett in the cold open with his family, but he tells Evelyn that his sons
died on Day 1 of the apocalypse, with his wife dying 11 weeks ago as she was sick and
whatever he tried to do to save her wasn't enough.
We gather that the bunker is safe as there is 3 feet of concrete above them, alongside
using timers to navigate in and out of it, but Emmett hasn't tried saving anyone, as
he warns them that the people left aren't worth saving.
While in the bunker, Marcus and Regan discover a radio signal that's playing Under the Sea
on a loop, something which has been happening for the past 4 months,
according to Emmett.
Regan believes she can use the signal to broadcast the feedback from her hearing aid and tracks
the signal to an island.
Going against her mother's wishes, she heads out alone during the night.
Evelyn persuades Emmett to go after Regan, while she stays behind to look after the injured
Marcus and her baby.
After a close encounter with one of the alien monsters
on an abandoned train, Regan begs Emmett to go with her to the island.
It acts as a moment of character fulfilment in comparison to what he says previously in
the film, and with this, Emmett finds a boat allowing them to make their way to the docks
to travel to the island.
In the process, they come across a group of survivors who
want to steal their supplies, resulting in only one option that he can turn to.
He starts to make noise to attract the aliens to kill these survivors, while Emmett and
Regan dive underwater and swim to the boat.
Back at the bunker, Marcus goes on a rather pointless walk outside while Evelyn has gone
to get supplies, including oxygen for the baby.
While Evelyn also pays tribute to her child's grave with her wedding ring,
unsurprisingly, Marcus attracts an alien after jumping at the sight of what seems to be the
decomposed body of Emmett's wife.
He only just survives because Evelyn returns just in time, distracting it with an explosion
and hiding in the bunker with her family.
During this moment, Regan and Emmett make their way to the island where
they find a community and discover that it's a safe haven.
You tend to get this in most apocalyptic and monster survival tales,
but with the sequel focusing more on the hope of survival, it makes sense to have it here.
It turns out that the aliens also can't swim and in the early days of the apocalypse, the
National Guard found out this fact and tried to get people to safety on this island.
Only two boats made it over though as the promise of survival caused a riot.
Unfortunately for the people on the island, an alien manages to reach it on Regan and
Emmett's boat and starts a violent rampage towards the closing moments of the
film.
Together with Djimon Hounsou's Island man, Regan and Emmett lure the alien away as they
make it to the radio station broadcasting the under the sea song.
Hounsou's island character is attacked from under a garage door and presumably killed
when they get there, but Regan gets to the radio room and manages to switch the audio
to the feedback of her hearing aid just in time to save Emmett, and ultimately, she kills
the alien.
Luckily for the rest of her family, it came in time to save them too as the alien had
made it into the bunker but is stopped by the feedback and Marcus eventually shoots
it.
The final shot of the movie is of the feedback playing out of the radio station's speaker,
so it just remains to be seen how far the signal stretches, and whether any other survivors
can use it to fight back against the aliens.
But this ending mainly acts as a nice reversal of the events in the first quiet place with
Regan taking out the alien, and coming into her own force with surviving.
With Marcus also rising up and taking the necessary steps to survive, it gives him,
his mother and her child some time to get out of the bunker.
John Krasinski said in an interview that it was the intention to show the children making
important steps and I'm sure that A Quiet Place
Part 3 is going to focus more on that and how they might make a better world after potentially
surviving the apocalypse.
I hope we get to see the characters trying to reach
out to more survivors like themselves, but as Emmett stated and saw before they got on
the island, there are those that aren't worth saving.
We'll have to see, but I did like the reversal of the events with Part 2's ending.
But when it comes to breaking down the aliens in the film, A Quiet Place Part 2 gives a
much clearer picture of the origins of the blind monsters terrorizing an apocalyptic
Earth, building on the subtle information Lee had acquired in the basement from A Quiet
Place.
In the first film, the family survived so long partially due to their prior use of sign
language, a tactic the new film shows not all survivors have learned yet.
The monsters have a similar appearance to those in the Alien franchise,
which isn’t surprising considering Krasinski had quoted Alien as one of his inspirations
for the film.
Right off the bat, A Quiet Place explains that the monsters are blind and attracted
to sound, and are quick to brutally attack their victims once any noise is detected.
Certain weaknesses learned in the first two films are that running water distracts the
monsters’ hearing, hearing aids projecting a high-frequency pitch through contact with
radios, speakers, or microphones weaken them, and they are unable to swim.
They are also quite difficult to kill, typically only dying when their faces or brains are
destroyed like in your traditional zombie monster movie.
A Quiet Place 2 also added that the monsters cannot be killed by fire, but will die if
blasted in an explosion.
The villain in any first horror movie is almost always a
mysterious figure, typically intriguing audiences enough to warrant an origin story.
Thankfully for A Quiet Place and its great ending, the sequel was able to include most
of the monsters' origins in its short opening sequence which was discussed before.
A few clues to the monsters were hinted at in the first film, but A Quiet Place 2
gives much more information on what they are and how they arrived on Earth.
In the first film, the monsters have a curious appearance that's similar to the creatures
in Alien, but the film doesn't exactly indicate what species or type of creation they fall
under.
A Quiet Place 2 confirms early on that the monsters are in fact aliens, and are later
referred to as such.
The idea is hinted at in the newspaper clippings that Lee has of meteors crashing
down on Earth, but nothing specifically indicated that the meteor was the vehicle through which
the monsters were transported.
The alien nature of the monsters is confirmed in A Quiet Place 2 in the flashback scene
to day 1 of the apocalypse where Lee is walking through the store seen earlier in the first
movie.
The store’s TV is broadcasting news about a mysterious giant meteor crashing in a foreign
country, though the New England town reacts as if it were just a
comet coming down in a faraway country that won’t affect them.
Minutes later, Lee and Emmett’s sons’ baseball game is interrupted when everyone
sees a meteor coming down their way and the town begins to disperse from the unknown meteor
that is about to crash, turning into a frenzy when alien creatures begin attacking and killing
the citizens.
So adding up all of these signs, whichever alternate planet the aliens come from, it's
likely to be very rocky and one which doesn’t have water.
Maybe we will see this be developed in the next film and learn more about their planet,
but these hints do give us some context with which tools that the Abbott family can use
to benefit their survival.
In particular, the subtle clues indicate an introduction or solution to the issue connected
to alternate worlds and space travel.
Now A Quiet Place 2 does re-adjust elements to fit
in line with this alien origins confirmation, as Americans would have no knowledge of the
aliens or a meteor until they see the live newscast on TV and the meteor itself coming
down.
So a newspaper story about an international crash wouldn't have had time to be printed
and circulated before the chaos began.
Although the film does have these conflicting points and plotholes surrounding the aliens'
arrival, I must say that like the first film, there's room to fill in more blanks and really
flesh out certain narrative reveals that fans want to see.
But it must be said that what has made both A Quiet Place films
terrifyingly engaging, is the little we know about the aliens, and how the small pieces
of information are timed appropriately to still continue the mix of the unknown
with figuring stuff out.
It's made for the theatre experience and watching the expansion of the story and the alien origins
on the big screen have been great so far.
We'll have to see how A Quiet Place Part 3 continues
the story, characters and monsters, and I'm looking forward to seeing how John Krasinski
will handle all of this going forward.
But that was my video explaining the plot and ending for A Quiet Place Part 2.
I hope this did help some of you guys understand the events a bit clearer and I'm looking forward
to hearing what else you picked out, so don't forget to let me know down below in the comments
section.
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