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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

"A Quiet Place" as a pro-life film

I enjoyed Sonny Bunch's review of A Quiet Place in the Washington Post.  A bit:

. . . Merely surviving is not enough. Merely surviving is empty. Merely surviving is not what living a life to the fullest is all about. A life without family is sad; a life without family is a life without a future. Evelyn and Lee have to demonstrate to Regan and Marcus that there is a reason to go on — and the only reason any of us has to go on, really, is to ensure the propagation of the species. The paucity of dialogue required by the film’s conceit, and the confidence with which Krasinski shoots the picture, guides us through a life fully lived: We see the efforts undertaken to muffle a crying baby without killing it, how to live in a world where sound can be deadly. Far from looking horrible, it looks homey. Difficult, yes, but filled with love.

“A Quiet Place” is about what it means to be alive, what it means to be human, what it means to continue to exist in a world that has made being human virtually impossible. A film about the importance of passing on what you know and what you are to the next generation. . . .

I have similar thoughts about McCarthy's The Road.

https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2018/04/a-quiet-place-as-a-pro-life-film.html

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