July 19, 2024 • 32 mins
The award-winning 2018 film A Quiet Place made a lot of headlines, including for the acting of deaf actress Millicent Simmonds. We talk about why this matters and why it shaped the movie and helped make it successful. Plus bonus discussions of aliens and apocalypse plans.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and all coop of stuff.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome. If you're listening on a Friday to a feminist movie,
Friday to whatever day you're listening, this is one of
those that very close in line when it comes to
being a feminist movie. I would say, do you think
this does this passpectel? I think so spechtl test because
there's only four characters for Slash five t Slash six
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and a half, and two of those are women, so
that you know the conversation is like okay, But I
think the second one really does hold to like a
little more feminist empowerment. This is a setup for it.
I don't know about the third one. Teasing, but before
we start, spoiler alert because I think we're still in
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that range. Are we still in that range that we
had to do spoiler alert? Yeah, so spoiler alert if
you've not watched this movie. As well as content warning
of death, horror, aliens, childbirth. Yeah, yeah, some gruesome scenes
and as per usual, we wanted to take some time
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to talk about a film we enjoyed and now has
gotten two additions to the Now series, including the newly
released A Quiet Place Day one, So yes, obviously we're
talking about A Quiet Place. Yes, point Blake again spoilers
since it is within that ten year mark. But if
you're a fan of these series or movies like these,
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So the twenty eighteen movie A Quiet Place was a
huge hit, and it was John Christis. He's a first
directorial debut. Annie and I had a hilarious exchange where
we mixed up to movies about John Krasinsky and we're like, what, Yeah,
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we cigared it out. But with that, the movie made
headlines for several reasons, and one including the fact that
they cast an actual deaf actress as one of the
main characters, Melicent Simmons, and Simmons was celebrated for her
incredible acting as well as leadership and providing help and
information to Krasinski and the rest of the team.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right here's a quote from slashfilm dot com. A Quiet
Place's most revolutionary element is the casting of Simmons as Reagan.
It's unfortunate that the hiring of an actress with the
same disability as her character is considered a rarity, but
when barely five percent of disabled characters are written and
nearly one hundred percent of them are portrayed by able
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bodied actors, it's important to highlight Simmons actually taught the
cast how to use sign language and her ability to
simply illustrate that her disability is an average part of
her life is amazing. Creating a character who exists on
screen because the actress understands her character off screen. It's
another great example of why casting disabled actors is so vital.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right again, they took a lot of advice from her.
I hope she got paid extra for teaching and helping
with a lot of the content, because apparently she was
the one who made suggestions on what type of how
to use the sign to show her emotions and all
of that. So oh, she got paid. So the film
was a hit over all and was critically acclaimed. The
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movie was nominated for several awards, including Academy Awards and
Golden Globes for Best Score and the Best Original Screenplay,
and it did win others, including the SAG Awards. Emily
Blunt won that and Critics' choice for Best sci fi
horror movie and many others. So we're going to jump
right into the plot. You ready, let's go. So the
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movie begins with a family of five walking to get supplies.
We are introduced to the abbots father Leebbit played by
John Krasinski, Evelyn played by Emily Blunt Marcus, the second
child played by Noah Jupe, Reagan, oldest child played by
Melissa Simmons, and a brief appearance by the youngest son Bo.
The movie is fairly quiet throughout due to the alien invasion.
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These creatures are sightless but can hear very well and
nearly impossible to kill as they have armor plating that
protects them. Feels like aliens, you know what I'm saying. Yeah.
The invasion has destroyed the human population, with just a
few remaining, including the Abbots. At the store, they're able
to get a good amount of items, and the youngest
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was even able to find a space shuttle toy, but
the parents did not allow him to have it. However, Reagan,
being the good sister, gave it to him without the
batteries because this made a lot of noise. However, Bo
took those batteries with him and as a journey back home,
Bo turns on his new toy, causing everyone to panic. However, Reagan,
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who is deaf, did not hear the toy, but watch
the reactions of her parents, just in time to turn
and see her youngest brother taken away by an alien. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
We jump a year later to see that the family
has tried to go back to normal, to their normal,
and that Evelyn is several months pregnant. Throughout this time,
they have set up things in order to survive or
there soon to be infant child. A basement that is
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somewhat soundproof, a baby box that is soundproof with oxygen
when it cries, a distraction for when she actually starts
to give birth, and much more. Lee has also been
researching ways to fight against the aliens, looking for weaknesses,
having surveillance all around, and teaching their son how to survive.
At one point, Lee makes Marcus come with him to
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go fishing and refuses to allow Reagan to come with him,
even though she desperately wants to go, saying she needs
to stay with our mom to keep her safe. Upset,
Reagan decides to go visit a Bow's memorial site instead.
Leaving Evelyn all by her lonesome, and of course she
didn't go to labor by herself elf. After trying to
go into the basement, she steps on the giant nail,
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which made everybody scream in the squirm, making her drop
a picture fame she had in her hand, alerting all
the creatures around. She's able to turn on the lights
outside to alert the family that she was in labor,
which is one of their precautions, but the alien soon
appears in the basement, but Evelyn is able to make
it out by tricking the alien with a timer or
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an egg timer. After a deep conversation and bonding time
between Marcus and Lee because they're able to talk because
of the water, Marcus asks if Lee is mad at
Reagan for both's death, in which Lee says no. Then
Marcus advises him to tell Reagan that because she thinks
he blames her and is mad at her. Soon upon
their return, they see the lights and Lee runs to
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lure any other creatures away with fireworks, just in time
for Evelyn to give birth in a bathtub by herself. Meanwhile,
Regan sees the fireworks and runs back home, while Lee
finally gets back into the house and helps Evelyn and
their newborn baby into their hiding spot, and Lee soon
goes back out to find the other kids. Marcus and
Reagan are able to get on top of the corn
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silo after a chase ensues and they try to signal
their parents with the fire, but Marcus then falls into
the corn because of course why not, which the alien's here,
And finally, after finally being able to get out of
the corner silo, both of them run to the truck,
where they get attacked by the alien. Soon though, Lee
arrives and signs to Reagan that he loves her and
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has always loved her important line before he distracts the animal,
sacrificing himself so his children can't escape, which I really
don't think he needed to do. I feel like he
could have done ten other things to try to at
least survive. I just I don't get those things. I
don't like it anyway. The children arrive back home, the
hideout is now flooded, and Evelyn and the baby are
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able to escape, but they are soon still being hunted
by the alien. Evelyn and Reagan realized that the hearing
aid that Lee had made for Reagan at the beginning
of the movie actually hurts the aliens and they use
it to make it vulnerable so that Evelyn can shoot it.
The end, it's a pretty bad scene because you see
Evelyn dow the my noise sound effects, you like that,
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and that's where we end. Yes, So obviously there's this
movie is quite intense for several reasons. One of the
ways that they do this is through the communication. And
I use this as a theme because we want to
talk about the themes now that communication is a part
of what they want to do. Whether it's very obviously
with the silence throughout the movie, the usage of sign
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language obviously throughout the movie as well, and then just
kind of like him never communicating but then finally communicating
with his daughter about what he was feeling and not
doing it in a great job right before he dies.
So of course or why not? So within that I
said silence was a part of the theme, And again
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another critic wrote in a different article that it is
best watched at the movie theater because when you're with
a crowd of people in silence, there's no music, there's
no dialogue. It's something different from being at home by yourself.
Even with the round sandwich is what we have. But
you know, like having that there's an audible change in
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the atmosphere and that you're supposed to feel.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, well it's really comical because I mean it's incredibly effective.
The comical part is I went saw this in theaters
and everyone I know, even my horror movie friends, is like,
I would never dare because inevitably my stomach starts a
rumbling in the movie and I'm like, I ball up
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my jacket over my stomach and I'm trying to It
was like a multiple packed theater, so you know, the
people next to me definitely were like, it's her, but
why audience didn't know, But it was if we were
dead silent just watching this.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So it sounds like you wouldn't survive. No, nobody really
talks about the like those out It's like when did
you use a bathroom? Going to like what happens if
you have to vomit? Like you're not quiet quietly like
how did Evelyn do this birthing thing? Wow? But here's
a quote from that slash film dot com article. The
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high silent concept gives the film a unique aura of suspense.
You like, the characters are constantly flinching at every small noise.
It also gives the actors a chance to project emotion
without dialogue, which they all clearly relish. Not not Les
Simon's a deaf actor who just about steals a film
from the Peter. The stars playing our parents Evelyn, Emily
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Blunt and Lee Krasinski, which, by the way, Krasinsky, that
was his whole thing in the office, always doing the
side eye, always giving the extra looks. So he should
have been a pro this, like if anybody should have
been prepared for a role, except he's never done it
as like a fear based like embarrassment based, yes, like
guilt space, yes, like if you've seen the Office, you
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know the American Office, that is because he makes all
those faces. So I feel like this was made for him.
But yeah, I feel like a silence. The silence was
not only a theme, but it was also a character
in itself, because if it was broken, everything changed.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It felt very oppressive, It felt very like.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It did make you look for any kind of thing
that could make a noise, like, oh, don't knock into
that or don't do that, Like you were just so
constantly looking around for okay, that could make a noise
that could make a noise. It just made you very
aware of how many sounds you make just existing, right,
and what would that mean if you had to really
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eliminate that.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
The new film, we know there's a cat involved, and
I constantly always thought if my if I was in
a pop up situation like that, I would die because
of my dog.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah. Yeah, so I my friend Marissa, friend of the show,
has seen the third one and she really liked it. Okay,
I'm planning on seeing it soon. I have seen the sequel.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, they deal with a baby. They do a great
job with the mom trying to have a conversation, and
but then we do I have the rebellious then in
this aspect too with the young boy. It's been a
minute as I've seen it. And then we have Killian
Murphy and like it's kind of like, huh what it's
a boat.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a very Yeah, there's a boat and there's a
whole island alien terrible scene and like a radio station.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's right, they thought they found peace for just a
slight a second. Spoilers for that one, especially that yeah, terrific.
I forgot about that was like, huh, yeah, I think
they they had to like switch it up a little bit,
like we have to have some talking.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Of course with that communication we talked about the use
of sign language. I did find it fascinating apparently, like
Simmon's really had a lot of like to say about like,
you know, let me do this as like a teenager.
My my signing is going to be really abrupt and forceful,
like I'm yelling at you in sign language. And she
does a great job in that the whole like stop stop,
just just stop, that level of conversation with his like
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slow like very big gestured goodbye to her once again.
In the suns we have them like dancing with AirPods.
Where do they get the ballot batteries? I don't know,
I say, have electricity somehow.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I'm sure it was in there.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Did I miss it? Linerators are a damn wow.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So there's no Oh, I've told you about that my
feared horror movie video games. You start that generator, They're
coming for you. They're coming whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But yeah, so that was a part of that level
of conversation that like they got lucky that they were
able to all sign really well. And she was talking
about how they need to be fluent because if if
they had been living with her as the eldest daughter,
they would all be very fluent with it, which I
think is like a very good point, and so she
would teach them pretty steadily to make sure that they
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were able to do so. And I put this under communication.
I think, like when we talk about silanguage, when we
talk about actors who are able to be represented, and
we wanted to talk about like the ableism versus representation,
and we've seen it too often where we see able
body people, as he spoke earlier, being these characters because
they have this like dynamic that it needs to be fixed. Again,
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that's not necessarily a thing like that's not a lot
of people who are in the disabled community would say,
I'm fine, I don't need to be quote unquote fixed.
And I put that in like derogatory terms being used
essentially when it comes to disabled communities. And so we
don't see enough representation, like in general, because the idea
that is like the catalyst of the plot, which we
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don't want to see. And that's kind of like the
nice part of this movies. It's not the plot, it's
not the henchpen to this whole thing. There's no like,
it's just who she is. That's just a part of
her life, and that's just a part of their life.
There's no The movies not based on that quote, unquo,
you know what I mean? Right, So in that there's
a lot of conversation about did they do well?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I remember when this came out. I remember all the
conversation about it. Here's the quote from Brian O'Donnell's article
in The Mighty dot Com. Kazinsky and his writing team
are urt careless filmmakers, and the way they sidestep this
trope is remarkable and it's simplicity. They don't call attention
to Reagan being deaf in the opening scenes, so when
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it does come up, it is only a part of
her character and her journey. We already know this character
as a smart, capable but in one faithful moment, careless teenager,
the suffering angel only has their condition to offer, which
lowers them to sympathy device but Reagan is much more
than that. No one is particularly sympathetic to Reagan because
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she's deaf. The world of the film is so brutal
and hostile, Reagan being deaf is pretty low on the
list of issues facing the Abbot family. Further, her relationship
with her family and specifically her father Lee is complicated,
and not because she is deaf. It's complicated because she
got her brother killed and Reagan and Lee are struggling
to navigate this tragedy in a world defined by tragedy.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right. You know, There's another point that I'm not gonna
didn't address necessarily, but in another article, they had this
conversation about the fact that the villains in this, the
bad guys the aliens, like many others, are very much
disabled representation as well, in that they are blind and
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blind essentially can't necessarily communicate all these things, and like
they're inability to do A B and C and D
and there's conversation ability. You see these tropes. You see
these things as as the weaknesses, and I've used against them.
But is this enabless tactic as well that's too often
used to make the monsters for these movies. And I
was like, huh, I wasn't thinking about in that route,
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but I get I see, I see. So I thought
that was an interesting conversation that we're not going to
follow too into, but just something to speak out on.
Here's another quote from that slash film dot com article.
The eventual reveal of her as deaf would then compel
the audience to question whether this changes how they feel
towards the character, and whether the use of sign language
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is connected to her or not. It would have demanded
the audience to look at their own stereotypes of disabled characters.
Reagan's disability is never seen as a detriment in comparison
to a mobility issue. Reagan is as able body as
can be, an additional Hollywood benefit of using deafness in general.
Despite her hearing laws, she's portrayed as smart, able to
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think on her feet in comparison to her brother Marcus
Norah Jup. She isn't labeled a victim, though her malfunctioning
implant prevents her from hearing the creatures behind her. Her
expressions are one of surprise and comparison to jeeps, whose
reactions are strictly based in fear. So that's kind of
like the level of like, okay, this just changes the
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approach for each actor, and like what they saw and
what you could feel because they're like they are. You
have the one that's the protective one, the father who
wants to defeat it and protect his family. You have
the mother who is caring in gentle and trying to
make sure everyone is okay and connecting to each other
once again, but also like helping everybody through heartbreak. You
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have the sister who is constantly on alert, but she's
not as scared like she It's not like she is scared,
but it's more like she's determined. And then you have
the brother who was constantly scared doesn't want to leave
because he knows the bad out there. So I thought
that was an interesting look.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yes, yes, and of course, with most movies and shows,
is not completely ablest free. Here's another quote. The film
isn't one hundred percent able to divorce itself from ableism.
Hollywood likes to fall back on making disabled people magical,
either with heightened senses or in their possession of a
skill that defeats the baddies. In this case, Reagan's broken
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implant is the monster's weakness her father was searching for.
Using the feedback from the implant, Reagan neutralizes the monster,
making them easier to kill. The concept certainly falls into
the trap of being a benefit for her the one
thing she can do is use her disability to save
the day. However, her ultimate rejection of the implant allows
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her to embrace the new world around her, unburden herself
of guilt, and become the new leader of the family unit.
The movie still falls into able tost thinking, but Simmons'
strength as a performer in the film's and making her
character disabled Unicorn prior to this attempts to balance the
scales right.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Right, And I think that's that conversation, like you have
to have some type of drama and some type of solutions,
and I think inevitably this is the easier pick. It
was still creative for like, oh, this is going to
affect their hearing because you know these things, okay, But like, yeah,
I think we see that in a lot most times,
in order to explain away a disability and or to
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hide it or to over emphasize the point to the
point that like, I'm so accepting our view that you
are so because this is the only thing I see
of you, because you're so beautiful, it makes you unique.
You're like, you know, that's that's not it. So you
definitely do have the moments, and it's hard didn't see sometimes,
especially as an able body person, meaning like I'm not
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I've never issue had any issues with like hearing to
that point, so to me doesn't like, oh, okay, yeah,
of course this might happen blah blah blah, not seeing
it for oh, this is kind of like one more
able list trope that we haven't looked at in this
way because it seems kind maybe is that the word
I'm looking for?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, I mean it reminds me of a lot of
conversations that came out after COVID where I was like,
I kind of get. This is not the same thing,
but similar, I kind of get what you're saying, where
people were suddenly like, oh my superpower is anxiety and
I stay inside all the time like oh my superpower
is this. I'm like, Okay, I kind of get. I
get what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Right, But.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And if you know some people feel that way. Okay,
but if that's kind of like the trope is.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's something that you're just continuing on to be like
this is what I see about you, It's kind of
like that level.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, like the thing about you is this.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, like for most people to look like that's not
the thing, it's kind of like when I'm being called
out from my ethnicity constantly, I'm like, yes, I know,
I am Korean. Yeah that's not the okay, cool cool,
you know, like that's the only acknowledgement to the point
of like, but you're so beautiful with this, like yeah,
you're so lucky to learn silently, which excuse me, Like
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there's so many I've heard that. But with that would
move on. We're talking about family, and I put this
as a theme because under that as many themes with
their family specifically, we had the loss of a child,
which was traumatic at the very jump. So you have
trauma after the loss of the child. So you have
the trauma of the parent, and there's so many feelings
on that one end, and then the siblings and you
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have those feelings on that end. Trauma is all about.
Horror movies just love trauma.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Though I'm starting to think almost everything loves trauma.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
But yes, horror movies definitely love trauma. They love characters
who are wrestling with trauma and have to in some
way or another come to terms with it, and usually
in some way or another it brings them more harm.
Yeah that they haven't faced it or haven't dealt with
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it obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Then we have like rebirth, the new child, the new beginning.
When they started over again, it did feel like kind
of a slight like, hey, we got okay, we lost one,
we'll take another one. I don't think that's the case
at all, but the way that the timing of the
movie went it was a little like huh huh. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I did think the first time I saw this, and
I feel you and I have a tendency to do this.
I mean we do it all the time the show.
But I was like, wow, you're gonna have a baby
right now? Right because there's the crime that clearly they
put in the thought. They put in the thought of
how can we protect this baby if it's crying all
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this stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
But the first time I saw it, I was like, oh,
that sounds like a risk.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
My friend right right, really concerned about this, and I
think they put I'm pretty sure I read about this.
They had that birthing scene because they knew it would
be so intense of how she's not able to scream,
and it's like clearly very painful.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
She stepped on this nail, like the tension is just
over the top and that. But yeah, it I was
thinking about it. I was like, oh no, yeah, it
felt like a taking time.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well it is obviously, yeah, again it falls into the
second movie, but I yeah, I think it's interesting, like
they still like in the midst of this moment, she's
still trying to keep our family together while being pregnant. Again,
my mind went through everything of like, there's so many
complications to pregnancy and dangers this, You're already probably malnourished,
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You're probably all these things. If you have morning sickness,
you're real screwed, and then you have two other kids
in this point, Like there's so much that I'm like,
this doesn't quite make sense. A B. The birth scene,
I was like, okay, there, that is why how the
child didn't Like typically they scream or they try to
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get them to start crying to make sure they're breathing
and such, none of that happened. Like, I was like,
none of that. I guess maybe during the fireworks that
was enough to a distraction. And also where are these
fireworks coming? Like if you have all of these, they
should have been able to survive, is what I've got
to say on that one. Again, they're able to rally
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with each other and help each other out. The sister
really does help the brother, and the brother helps the
sister in their corn silo, like making sure to protect
each other. Of course, another theme death during the apocalyp
There're gonna have a lot of death. We had the
old man come out of nowhere scream because he wanted
to kill off everybody's that says, since his wife or
partner dies always like and everybody ends.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, And I think we didn't really talk about this,
but there is Lee's trying to find other.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Survivors.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He's trying to find other survivors, but it's eerie and
alone for all of it, and so it feels like
if there are people, there are people like this old
guy who might.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Be a danger, it's a real risk to reach out.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And it also just along with the silence, I think
it it hangs over the whole movie, this fear of
death and like the fallout of this death that happened
at the beginning, and having all these precautions in place
to prevent death, and it's just constant, like it's there, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You can sweaty.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm like go away to ward off this feeling.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Again, with another like the theme of survival, which they
do have a great job. I was seeing like the
amount of corner they have. They can live for a
long time longally they've got some water.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
They really had a pretty good setup.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, the jarred foods and downstairs and the like where'd
y'all get that?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yes, it's one of those movies that makes me want
to learn learn some things. But I like they had
a lot of creative solutions to like their pathways, had
to muffle their footsteps, and the their red light system,
their light system.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yes, where the electricity electricity?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm sure maybe they didn't. I don't know. I remember
somebody wrote they it was in good fun.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But they were talking about the how this alien would
actually function, and they're like, no.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
All the aliens are starting to look similar to each other.
Have you seen have you noticed this? Like he looks
very much in like a lined with aliens and stranger
things put together.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, he dies, Yeah, I can see that. I can
see that. I think I've seen some different.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Ghost in is such a different than like aliens aliens
or aliens being like mindsets?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, like the worms that get in your ear and.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh no, I was thinking the three body problem. Oh,
it's just they just communicate the way you never see them.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Uh, rival They're kind of like squid.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
That's a whole female like aliens. We need to talk
about those being mucating. I think we actually didn't talk
about that aliens. I think we did talk about that
the mother anyway, moving on, but yeah, I think there's
several other things we could attach to this, the whole
h Kevin in the woodsfield being in the country. Yeah,
So where would you go in apocalyptic situation?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Well, we have talked about this.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We have.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
The unfortunate thing for me is I live in a city.
I live very close to the center of a city,
and so you've seen a lot of apocalypse movies. I'm
in a lot of trouble because of that, because I
basically have to get out of the city otherwise I'm
going to be like trapped. Your car is not going
to get out. The roads are going to.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Be blocked, So I either have to car especially we
have that's true, So I either have to get out
before things have really gotten sour, or I'm gonna have
to start walking.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I think I.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Would head towards where my mom lives because the survivalist
lives next door, right, and it's pretty secluded, but like
not too secluded. So I feel like I could get
some stuff and then from there maybe I'll learn some
skills and I'll then I'll move on to somewhere else.
(30:27):
I have a couple options in mind. Nothing settled yet though,
set I got a plan.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, yes, I don't much have one either. I would go,
but I think towards my family as well, who is
in North Georgia and the mountains. Ah, but still like
there's no real isolated area.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
It would really depend on the apocalypse too. What kind
of apocalypse are we talking?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Maybe they hate the city and I'll be better off
there whatever it starts out in the country, that's true,
like a zombie thing probably starting the city. But oh
that's gotch its risk, but.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It does, but it's pretty high security, it's true. Anyway,
We'll think more on this. Yeah, and I think, as
we said before, the character of Evelyn is being built
up here, especially with the ending frame of her and
Reagan being the lead here and obviously finding a way.
(31:33):
Oh we can kill these efforts well essentially with this
way and having a plan that way I think it
definitely does set up for the next one, in which
he becomes a little more outspoken, a little more direct,
a little more confrontational, especially with the kids and trying
to make sure that they survive. It's interesting as that
plays out.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It is, and I really like Reagan's story and then
second one as well watching I think. But yeah, listeners,
if you have any thoughts on this, any of these movies,
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome. If you're listening on a Friday to a feminist movie,
Friday to whatever day you're listening, this is one of
those that very close in line when it comes to
being a feminist movie. I would say, do you think
this does this passpectel? I think so spechtl test because
there's only four characters for Slash five t Slash six
(00:41):
and a half, and two of those are women, so
that you know the conversation is like okay, But I
think the second one really does hold to like a
little more feminist empowerment. This is a setup for it.
I don't know about the third one. Teasing, but before
we start, spoiler alert because I think we're still in
(01:03):
that range. Are we still in that range that we
had to do spoiler alert? Yeah, so spoiler alert if
you've not watched this movie. As well as content warning
of death, horror, aliens, childbirth. Yeah, yeah, some gruesome scenes
and as per usual, we wanted to take some time
(01:25):
to talk about a film we enjoyed and now has
gotten two additions to the Now series, including the newly
released A Quiet Place Day one, So yes, obviously we're
talking about A Quiet Place. Yes, point Blake again spoilers
since it is within that ten year mark. But if
you're a fan of these series or movies like these,
(01:46):
I have a feeling you've already seen this. So not
it's on Paramount Plus not a sponsor at this time.
So the twenty eighteen movie A Quiet Place was a
huge hit, and it was John Christis. He's a first
directorial debut. Annie and I had a hilarious exchange where
we mixed up to movies about John Krasinsky and we're like, what, Yeah,
(02:08):
we cigared it out. But with that, the movie made
headlines for several reasons, and one including the fact that
they cast an actual deaf actress as one of the
main characters, Melicent Simmons, and Simmons was celebrated for her
incredible acting as well as leadership and providing help and
information to Krasinski and the rest of the team.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right here's a quote from slashfilm dot com. A Quiet
Place's most revolutionary element is the casting of Simmons as Reagan.
It's unfortunate that the hiring of an actress with the
same disability as her character is considered a rarity, but
when barely five percent of disabled characters are written and
nearly one hundred percent of them are portrayed by able
(02:50):
bodied actors, it's important to highlight Simmons actually taught the
cast how to use sign language and her ability to
simply illustrate that her disability is an average part of
her life is amazing. Creating a character who exists on
screen because the actress understands her character off screen. It's
another great example of why casting disabled actors is so vital.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right again, they took a lot of advice from her.
I hope she got paid extra for teaching and helping
with a lot of the content, because apparently she was
the one who made suggestions on what type of how
to use the sign to show her emotions and all
of that. So oh, she got paid. So the film
was a hit over all and was critically acclaimed. The
(03:34):
movie was nominated for several awards, including Academy Awards and
Golden Globes for Best Score and the Best Original Screenplay,
and it did win others, including the SAG Awards. Emily
Blunt won that and Critics' choice for Best sci fi
horror movie and many others. So we're going to jump
right into the plot. You ready, let's go. So the
(03:54):
movie begins with a family of five walking to get supplies.
We are introduced to the abbots father Leebbit played by
John Krasinski, Evelyn played by Emily Blunt Marcus, the second
child played by Noah Jupe, Reagan, oldest child played by
Melissa Simmons, and a brief appearance by the youngest son Bo.
The movie is fairly quiet throughout due to the alien invasion.
(04:17):
These creatures are sightless but can hear very well and
nearly impossible to kill as they have armor plating that
protects them. Feels like aliens, you know what I'm saying. Yeah.
The invasion has destroyed the human population, with just a
few remaining, including the Abbots. At the store, they're able
to get a good amount of items, and the youngest
(04:39):
was even able to find a space shuttle toy, but
the parents did not allow him to have it. However, Reagan,
being the good sister, gave it to him without the
batteries because this made a lot of noise. However, Bo
took those batteries with him and as a journey back home,
Bo turns on his new toy, causing everyone to panic. However, Reagan,
(05:00):
who is deaf, did not hear the toy, but watch
the reactions of her parents, just in time to turn
and see her youngest brother taken away by an alien. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
We jump a year later to see that the family
has tried to go back to normal, to their normal,
and that Evelyn is several months pregnant. Throughout this time,
they have set up things in order to survive or
there soon to be infant child. A basement that is
(05:23):
somewhat soundproof, a baby box that is soundproof with oxygen
when it cries, a distraction for when she actually starts
to give birth, and much more. Lee has also been
researching ways to fight against the aliens, looking for weaknesses,
having surveillance all around, and teaching their son how to survive.
At one point, Lee makes Marcus come with him to
(05:43):
go fishing and refuses to allow Reagan to come with him,
even though she desperately wants to go, saying she needs
to stay with our mom to keep her safe. Upset,
Reagan decides to go visit a Bow's memorial site instead.
Leaving Evelyn all by her lonesome, and of course she
didn't go to labor by herself elf. After trying to
go into the basement, she steps on the giant nail,
(06:03):
which made everybody scream in the squirm, making her drop
a picture fame she had in her hand, alerting all
the creatures around. She's able to turn on the lights
outside to alert the family that she was in labor,
which is one of their precautions, but the alien soon
appears in the basement, but Evelyn is able to make
it out by tricking the alien with a timer or
(06:24):
an egg timer. After a deep conversation and bonding time
between Marcus and Lee because they're able to talk because
of the water, Marcus asks if Lee is mad at
Reagan for both's death, in which Lee says no. Then
Marcus advises him to tell Reagan that because she thinks
he blames her and is mad at her. Soon upon
their return, they see the lights and Lee runs to
(06:46):
lure any other creatures away with fireworks, just in time
for Evelyn to give birth in a bathtub by herself. Meanwhile,
Regan sees the fireworks and runs back home, while Lee
finally gets back into the house and helps Evelyn and
their newborn baby into their hiding spot, and Lee soon
goes back out to find the other kids. Marcus and
Reagan are able to get on top of the corn
(07:06):
silo after a chase ensues and they try to signal
their parents with the fire, but Marcus then falls into
the corn because of course why not, which the alien's here,
And finally, after finally being able to get out of
the corner silo, both of them run to the truck,
where they get attacked by the alien. Soon though, Lee
arrives and signs to Reagan that he loves her and
(07:28):
has always loved her important line before he distracts the animal,
sacrificing himself so his children can't escape, which I really
don't think he needed to do. I feel like he
could have done ten other things to try to at
least survive. I just I don't get those things. I
don't like it anyway. The children arrive back home, the
hideout is now flooded, and Evelyn and the baby are
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able to escape, but they are soon still being hunted
by the alien. Evelyn and Reagan realized that the hearing
aid that Lee had made for Reagan at the beginning
of the movie actually hurts the aliens and they use
it to make it vulnerable so that Evelyn can shoot it.
The end, it's a pretty bad scene because you see
Evelyn dow the my noise sound effects, you like that,
(08:12):
and that's where we end. Yes, So obviously there's this
movie is quite intense for several reasons. One of the
ways that they do this is through the communication. And
I use this as a theme because we want to
talk about the themes now that communication is a part
of what they want to do. Whether it's very obviously
with the silence throughout the movie, the usage of sign
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language obviously throughout the movie as well, and then just
kind of like him never communicating but then finally communicating
with his daughter about what he was feeling and not
doing it in a great job right before he dies.
So of course or why not? So within that I
said silence was a part of the theme, And again
(08:58):
another critic wrote in a different article that it is
best watched at the movie theater because when you're with
a crowd of people in silence, there's no music, there's
no dialogue. It's something different from being at home by yourself.
Even with the round sandwich is what we have. But
you know, like having that there's an audible change in
(09:19):
the atmosphere and that you're supposed to feel.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, well it's really comical because I mean it's incredibly effective.
The comical part is I went saw this in theaters
and everyone I know, even my horror movie friends, is like,
I would never dare because inevitably my stomach starts a
rumbling in the movie and I'm like, I ball up
(09:47):
my jacket over my stomach and I'm trying to It
was like a multiple packed theater, so you know, the
people next to me definitely were like, it's her, but
why audience didn't know, But it was if we were
dead silent just watching this.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So it sounds like you wouldn't survive. No, nobody really
talks about the like those out It's like when did
you use a bathroom? Going to like what happens if
you have to vomit? Like you're not quiet quietly like
how did Evelyn do this birthing thing? Wow? But here's
a quote from that slash film dot com article. The
(10:27):
high silent concept gives the film a unique aura of suspense.
You like, the characters are constantly flinching at every small noise.
It also gives the actors a chance to project emotion
without dialogue, which they all clearly relish. Not not Les
Simon's a deaf actor who just about steals a film
from the Peter. The stars playing our parents Evelyn, Emily
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Blunt and Lee Krasinski, which, by the way, Krasinsky, that
was his whole thing in the office, always doing the
side eye, always giving the extra looks. So he should
have been a pro this, like if anybody should have
been prepared for a role, except he's never done it
as like a fear based like embarrassment based, yes, like
guilt space, yes, like if you've seen the Office, you
(11:11):
know the American Office, that is because he makes all
those faces. So I feel like this was made for him.
But yeah, I feel like a silence. The silence was
not only a theme, but it was also a character
in itself, because if it was broken, everything changed.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It felt very oppressive, It felt very like.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It did make you look for any kind of thing
that could make a noise, like, oh, don't knock into
that or don't do that, Like you were just so
constantly looking around for okay, that could make a noise
that could make a noise. It just made you very
aware of how many sounds you make just existing, right,
and what would that mean if you had to really
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eliminate that.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
The new film, we know there's a cat involved, and
I constantly always thought if my if I was in
a pop up situation like that, I would die because
of my dog.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah. Yeah, so I my friend Marissa, friend of the show,
has seen the third one and she really liked it. Okay,
I'm planning on seeing it soon. I have seen the sequel.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, they deal with a baby. They do a great
job with the mom trying to have a conversation, and
but then we do I have the rebellious then in
this aspect too with the young boy. It's been a
minute as I've seen it. And then we have Killian
Murphy and like it's kind of like, huh what it's
a boat.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a very Yeah, there's a boat and there's a
whole island alien terrible scene and like a radio station.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's right, they thought they found peace for just a
slight a second. Spoilers for that one, especially that yeah, terrific.
I forgot about that was like, huh, yeah, I think
they they had to like switch it up a little bit,
like we have to have some talking.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Of course with that communication we talked about the use
of sign language. I did find it fascinating apparently, like
Simmon's really had a lot of like to say about like,
you know, let me do this as like a teenager.
My my signing is going to be really abrupt and forceful,
like I'm yelling at you in sign language. And she
does a great job in that the whole like stop stop,
just just stop, that level of conversation with his like
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slow like very big gestured goodbye to her once again.
In the suns we have them like dancing with AirPods.
Where do they get the ballot batteries? I don't know,
I say, have electricity somehow.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I'm sure it was in there.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Did I miss it? Linerators are a damn wow.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So there's no Oh, I've told you about that my
feared horror movie video games. You start that generator, They're
coming for you. They're coming whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But yeah, so that was a part of that level
of conversation that like they got lucky that they were
able to all sign really well. And she was talking
about how they need to be fluent because if if
they had been living with her as the eldest daughter,
they would all be very fluent with it, which I
think is like a very good point, and so she
would teach them pretty steadily to make sure that they
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were able to do so. And I put this under communication.
I think, like when we talk about silanguage, when we
talk about actors who are able to be represented, and
we wanted to talk about like the ableism versus representation,
and we've seen it too often where we see able
body people, as he spoke earlier, being these characters because
they have this like dynamic that it needs to be fixed. Again,
(14:54):
that's not necessarily a thing like that's not a lot
of people who are in the disabled community would say,
I'm fine, I don't need to be quote unquote fixed.
And I put that in like derogatory terms being used
essentially when it comes to disabled communities. And so we
don't see enough representation, like in general, because the idea
that is like the catalyst of the plot, which we
(15:16):
don't want to see. And that's kind of like the
nice part of this movies. It's not the plot, it's
not the henchpen to this whole thing. There's no like,
it's just who she is. That's just a part of
her life, and that's just a part of their life.
There's no The movies not based on that quote, unquo,
you know what I mean? Right, So in that there's
a lot of conversation about did they do well?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I remember when this came out. I remember all the
conversation about it. Here's the quote from Brian O'Donnell's article
in The Mighty dot Com. Kazinsky and his writing team
are urt careless filmmakers, and the way they sidestep this
trope is remarkable and it's simplicity. They don't call attention
to Reagan being deaf in the opening scenes, so when
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it does come up, it is only a part of
her character and her journey. We already know this character
as a smart, capable but in one faithful moment, careless teenager,
the suffering angel only has their condition to offer, which
lowers them to sympathy device but Reagan is much more
than that. No one is particularly sympathetic to Reagan because
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she's deaf. The world of the film is so brutal
and hostile, Reagan being deaf is pretty low on the
list of issues facing the Abbot family. Further, her relationship
with her family and specifically her father Lee is complicated,
and not because she is deaf. It's complicated because she
got her brother killed and Reagan and Lee are struggling
to navigate this tragedy in a world defined by tragedy.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right. You know, There's another point that I'm not gonna
didn't address necessarily, but in another article, they had this
conversation about the fact that the villains in this, the
bad guys the aliens, like many others, are very much
disabled representation as well, in that they are blind and
(17:03):
blind essentially can't necessarily communicate all these things, and like
they're inability to do A B and C and D
and there's conversation ability. You see these tropes. You see
these things as as the weaknesses, and I've used against them.
But is this enabless tactic as well that's too often
used to make the monsters for these movies. And I
was like, huh, I wasn't thinking about in that route,
(17:26):
but I get I see, I see. So I thought
that was an interesting conversation that we're not going to
follow too into, but just something to speak out on.
Here's another quote from that slash film dot com article.
The eventual reveal of her as deaf would then compel
the audience to question whether this changes how they feel
towards the character, and whether the use of sign language
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is connected to her or not. It would have demanded
the audience to look at their own stereotypes of disabled characters.
Reagan's disability is never seen as a detriment in comparison
to a mobility issue. Reagan is as able body as
can be, an additional Hollywood benefit of using deafness in general.
Despite her hearing laws, she's portrayed as smart, able to
(18:08):
think on her feet in comparison to her brother Marcus
Norah Jup. She isn't labeled a victim, though her malfunctioning
implant prevents her from hearing the creatures behind her. Her
expressions are one of surprise and comparison to jeeps, whose
reactions are strictly based in fear. So that's kind of
like the level of like, okay, this just changes the
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approach for each actor, and like what they saw and
what you could feel because they're like they are. You
have the one that's the protective one, the father who
wants to defeat it and protect his family. You have
the mother who is caring in gentle and trying to
make sure everyone is okay and connecting to each other
once again, but also like helping everybody through heartbreak. You
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have the sister who is constantly on alert, but she's
not as scared like she It's not like she is scared,
but it's more like she's determined. And then you have
the brother who was constantly scared doesn't want to leave
because he knows the bad out there. So I thought
that was an interesting look.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yes, yes, and of course, with most movies and shows,
is not completely ablest free. Here's another quote. The film
isn't one hundred percent able to divorce itself from ableism.
Hollywood likes to fall back on making disabled people magical,
either with heightened senses or in their possession of a
skill that defeats the baddies. In this case, Reagan's broken
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implant is the monster's weakness her father was searching for.
Using the feedback from the implant, Reagan neutralizes the monster,
making them easier to kill. The concept certainly falls into
the trap of being a benefit for her the one
thing she can do is use her disability to save
the day. However, her ultimate rejection of the implant allows
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her to embrace the new world around her, unburden herself
of guilt, and become the new leader of the family unit.
The movie still falls into able tost thinking, but Simmons'
strength as a performer in the film's and making her
character disabled Unicorn prior to this attempts to balance the
scales right.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Right, And I think that's that conversation, like you have
to have some type of drama and some type of solutions,
and I think inevitably this is the easier pick. It
was still creative for like, oh, this is going to
affect their hearing because you know these things, okay, But like, yeah,
I think we see that in a lot most times,
in order to explain away a disability and or to
(20:28):
hide it or to over emphasize the point to the
point that like, I'm so accepting our view that you
are so because this is the only thing I see
of you, because you're so beautiful, it makes you unique.
You're like, you know, that's that's not it. So you
definitely do have the moments, and it's hard didn't see sometimes,
especially as an able body person, meaning like I'm not
(20:48):
I've never issue had any issues with like hearing to
that point, so to me doesn't like, oh, okay, yeah,
of course this might happen blah blah blah, not seeing
it for oh, this is kind of like one more
able list trope that we haven't looked at in this
way because it seems kind maybe is that the word
I'm looking for?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, I mean it reminds me of a lot of
conversations that came out after COVID where I was like,
I kind of get. This is not the same thing,
but similar, I kind of get what you're saying, where
people were suddenly like, oh my superpower is anxiety and
I stay inside all the time like oh my superpower
is this. I'm like, Okay, I kind of get. I
get what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Right, But.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And if you know some people feel that way. Okay,
but if that's kind of like the trope is.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's something that you're just continuing on to be like
this is what I see about you, It's kind of
like that level.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, like the thing about you is this.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, like for most people to look like that's not
the thing, it's kind of like when I'm being called
out from my ethnicity constantly, I'm like, yes, I know,
I am Korean. Yeah that's not the okay, cool cool,
you know, like that's the only acknowledgement to the point
of like, but you're so beautiful with this, like yeah,
you're so lucky to learn silently, which excuse me, Like
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there's so many I've heard that. But with that would
move on. We're talking about family, and I put this
as a theme because under that as many themes with
their family specifically, we had the loss of a child,
which was traumatic at the very jump. So you have
trauma after the loss of the child. So you have
the trauma of the parent, and there's so many feelings
on that one end, and then the siblings and you
(22:30):
have those feelings on that end. Trauma is all about.
Horror movies just love trauma.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Though I'm starting to think almost everything loves trauma.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
But yes, horror movies definitely love trauma. They love characters
who are wrestling with trauma and have to in some
way or another come to terms with it, and usually
in some way or another it brings them more harm.
Yeah that they haven't faced it or haven't dealt with
(23:05):
it obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Then we have like rebirth, the new child, the new beginning.
When they started over again, it did feel like kind
of a slight like, hey, we got okay, we lost one,
we'll take another one. I don't think that's the case
at all, but the way that the timing of the
movie went it was a little like huh huh. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I did think the first time I saw this, and
I feel you and I have a tendency to do this.
I mean we do it all the time the show.
But I was like, wow, you're gonna have a baby
right now? Right because there's the crime that clearly they
put in the thought. They put in the thought of
how can we protect this baby if it's crying all
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this stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
But the first time I saw it, I was like, oh,
that sounds like a risk.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
My friend right right, really concerned about this, and I
think they put I'm pretty sure I read about this.
They had that birthing scene because they knew it would
be so intense of how she's not able to scream,
and it's like clearly very painful.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
She stepped on this nail, like the tension is just
over the top and that. But yeah, it I was
thinking about it. I was like, oh no, yeah, it
felt like a taking time.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well it is obviously, yeah, again it falls into the
second movie, but I yeah, I think it's interesting, like
they still like in the midst of this moment, she's
still trying to keep our family together while being pregnant. Again,
my mind went through everything of like, there's so many
complications to pregnancy and dangers this, You're already probably malnourished,
(25:02):
You're probably all these things. If you have morning sickness,
you're real screwed, and then you have two other kids
in this point, Like there's so much that I'm like,
this doesn't quite make sense. A B. The birth scene,
I was like, okay, there, that is why how the
child didn't Like typically they scream or they try to
(25:25):
get them to start crying to make sure they're breathing
and such, none of that happened. Like, I was like,
none of that. I guess maybe during the fireworks that
was enough to a distraction. And also where are these
fireworks coming? Like if you have all of these, they
should have been able to survive, is what I've got
to say on that one. Again, they're able to rally
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with each other and help each other out. The sister
really does help the brother, and the brother helps the
sister in their corn silo, like making sure to protect
each other. Of course, another theme death during the apocalyp
There're gonna have a lot of death. We had the
old man come out of nowhere scream because he wanted
to kill off everybody's that says, since his wife or
partner dies always like and everybody ends.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, And I think we didn't really talk about this,
but there is Lee's trying to find other.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Survivors.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He's trying to find other survivors, but it's eerie and
alone for all of it, and so it feels like
if there are people, there are people like this old
guy who might.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Be a danger, it's a real risk to reach out.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And it also just along with the silence, I think
it it hangs over the whole movie, this fear of
death and like the fallout of this death that happened
at the beginning, and having all these precautions in place
to prevent death, and it's just constant, like it's there, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You can sweaty.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm like go away to ward off this feeling.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Again, with another like the theme of survival, which they
do have a great job. I was seeing like the
amount of corner they have. They can live for a
long time longally they've got some water.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
They really had a pretty good setup.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, the jarred foods and downstairs and the like where'd
y'all get that?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yes, it's one of those movies that makes me want
to learn learn some things. But I like they had
a lot of creative solutions to like their pathways, had
to muffle their footsteps, and the their red light system,
their light system.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yes, where the electricity electricity?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm sure maybe they didn't. I don't know. I remember
somebody wrote they it was in good fun.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But they were talking about the how this alien would
actually function, and they're like, no.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
All the aliens are starting to look similar to each other.
Have you seen have you noticed this? Like he looks
very much in like a lined with aliens and stranger
things put together.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, he dies, Yeah, I can see that. I can
see that. I think I've seen some different.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Ghost in is such a different than like aliens aliens
or aliens being like mindsets?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, like the worms that get in your ear and.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh no, I was thinking the three body problem. Oh,
it's just they just communicate the way you never see them.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Uh, rival They're kind of like squid.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
That's a whole female like aliens. We need to talk
about those being mucating. I think we actually didn't talk
about that aliens. I think we did talk about that
the mother anyway, moving on, but yeah, I think there's
several other things we could attach to this, the whole
h Kevin in the woodsfield being in the country. Yeah,
So where would you go in apocalyptic situation?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Well, we have talked about this.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We have.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
The unfortunate thing for me is I live in a city.
I live very close to the center of a city,
and so you've seen a lot of apocalypse movies. I'm
in a lot of trouble because of that, because I
basically have to get out of the city otherwise I'm
going to be like trapped. Your car is not going
to get out. The roads are going to.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Be blocked, So I either have to car especially we
have that's true, So I either have to get out
before things have really gotten sour, or I'm gonna have
to start walking.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I think I.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Would head towards where my mom lives because the survivalist
lives next door, right, and it's pretty secluded, but like
not too secluded. So I feel like I could get
some stuff and then from there maybe I'll learn some
skills and I'll then I'll move on to somewhere else.
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I have a couple options in mind. Nothing settled yet though,
set I got a plan.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, yes, I don't much have one either. I would go,
but I think towards my family as well, who is
in North Georgia and the mountains. Ah, but still like
there's no real isolated area.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
It would really depend on the apocalypse too. What kind
of apocalypse are we talking?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Maybe they hate the city and I'll be better off
there whatever it starts out in the country, that's true,
like a zombie thing probably starting the city. But oh
that's gotch its risk, but.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It does, but it's pretty high security, it's true. Anyway,
We'll think more on this. Yeah, and I think, as
we said before, the character of Evelyn is being built
up here, especially with the ending frame of her and
Reagan being the lead here and obviously finding a way.
(31:33):
Oh we can kill these efforts well essentially with this
way and having a plan that way I think it
definitely does set up for the next one, in which
he becomes a little more outspoken, a little more direct,
a little more confrontational, especially with the kids and trying
to make sure that they survive. It's interesting as that
plays out.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It is, and I really like Reagan's story and then
second one as well watching I think. But yeah, listeners,
if you have any thoughts on this, any of these movies,
please let us know. If you have any thoughts about
apocalypse survival plan tips, let us know. You can email
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