A quiet place is a science fiction horror film directed by John Krasinski.
It follows the story of a family facing the struggles of life in a post-apocalyptic world.
The family faces monsters that are blind but have a heightened sense of hearing.
They can hear absolutely everything, even something as quiet as a cough.
The quiet place was a huge box office success.
It grossed 338 million world wide.
But what if A quiet place wasn’t just a film?
What if a quiet place, was real?
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The year is 2020, and the earth is unrecognizable.
The earth’s population of animals, as well as humans have been wiped out.
But they haven’t been wiped out by nuclear Armageddon or climate change.
They’ve been wiped out by creatures of unknown origin.
These creatures, even though they are blind, they have indestructible skin and an acute
sense of hearing.
And when I say indestructible skin, I mean bulletproof, so you can’t kill them with
guns, unless they open themselves up and become vulnerable.
They are likely space aliens that attack anyone and anything that makes noise, and can hear
noise from far away distances.
An invasion of these aliens would wipe out the worlds population extremely quickly.
I would give it a week before communications are lost.
Cities are the first to go, because they are extremely loud and populated.
The military cant kill these creatures because they are bullet proof and immune to explosives.
One or two months later, most of the worlds population would be wiped out, with the remaining
forced to move to rural areas to hide.
So what if there really were creatures out there that had wiped out almost all of earth’s
population.
The only way to communicate with other humans becomes sign language.
Deafening silence is all anyone is used to.
If you needed to cough, or even fart, you would have to do so into a pillow.
No one can wear hard soled shoes, the only way to get around is by being barefoot.
Since everyone else has been wiped out, theres no such thing as internet or social media.
The only way to ensure that you’re able to talk with these creatures around is if
there is something making a lot of noise nearby.
Things like a waterfall, that can mask the sound of voices, and most importantly, the
sound of babies, and the sound of women giving birth.
Before you go and say, well you could probably soundproof your house and that would protect
you, yeah I mean you could, but soundproofing doesn’t cut out all noise and the act of
installing soundproofing in a room does make noise.
For a time, most uman hideouts would have to exist near huge waterfalls like niagra
falls.
It would be difficult for anyone with a newborn baby to live anywhere else on earth.
You can’t tell a newborn baby to stop crying because if they don’t, they and their entire
family will be killed.
Babies would have to be kept in soundproof boxes, which would be incredibly difficult
for both the babies and their families.
Krasinski said that the scene from the film where the baby was in the box was the hardest
to shoot out of all the scenes in the movie.
It was shot in two takes, but the entire crew on set was having a difficult time grasping
the concept of keeping a baby inside a box for a few minutes.
Imagine how people would feel if this was the only way for them to protect their newborns.
And have you ever told a pregnant woman to stop screaming from the pain?
The screaming is the only thing that gets them through it.
The only way mothers could give birth is near a waterfall, or even underwater, but then,
they risk drowning.
The difficulty would be too much for many to bear.
How could you live in a world where you can’t protect your own children?
There would be mass suicides where people would simply scream and ultimately be killed
by the monsters.
But just because these aliens have incredible strengths that doesn’t mean they don’t
have any weaknesses.
It becomes apparent at the end of the film, a quiet place, that a way to ward off these
creatures is by magnifying the sound of feedback.
You know that unpleasant sound that a microphone makes when you put it near a speaker?
Yeah, these creatures hate that sound.
And it makes sense, given how acute their sense of hearing is.
When these monsters hear feedback, these creatures become disoriented and vulnuerable.
The way the protagonists ward off the aliens in the film is through the use of a hearing
aid, while putting the hearing aid up to a microphone.
Once people figured this out, the only way of surviving would be to live in places where
there is feedback playing constantly on loudspeakers.
And that would be pretty difficult.
Feedback is an unpleasant noise for whoever hears it, including humans.
People would still have to communicate using sign language for the time being, until all
the monsters are wiped out.
It would be difficult to relay news of the aliens weaknesses to other people, so groups
would have to discover this on their own, independently, or live out their entire existence
in silence.
Either way, it would be an extremely unpleasant life.
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