by Kirsten Medlin
The Silence is a new Netflix original movie that was recently released. It’s basically Bird Box meets A Quiet Place. The main problem isn’t that the idea doesn’t seem original, it’s just a bad movie. It’s at least not a complete rip off of A Quiet Place or Bird Box; the movie is based off a 2015 novel by Tim Lebbon with the same title. Even though Bird Box and A Quiet place are similar movies, they still are good movies in different ways. However, The Silence does not serve as a good movie on its own.
The genre of post-apocalyptic movies is already becoming oversaturated, and this movie certainly doesn’t help. The Silence is about the world being under attack by a monster who hunts its prey by sound, It focuses on a family of four, one of which who is a young teenage deaf girl, sounds familiar right? The most unique and most bearable part of this movie is the cult that tries to exploit the daughter, I think it added a really creepy aspect that the other films comparable to this movie didn’t really have.
None of the “emotional” moments feel emotional at all. No matter how many deaths there are in this movie, they don’t make you feel anything towards the characters. It just feels like this movie is going through the motions and using cheap gags to try to scare and make you feel sad for the characters, but it just fails. I give this movie two out of five stars, two just because it’s not the movie’s fault it was released right after Bird Box and A Quiet Place.
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