When a sequel, or more often a prequel, of a series of successful, loved and appreciated films, chooses to have protagonists different from the original ones, the first question that comes to mind is how they chose them. Because, to tell the story of the beginning of the alien invasion that in A Quiet Place had already started some time ago, you choose an African-American woman with cancer (Lupita Nyong’o) and an Englishman (Joseph Quinn) from a good family? A Quiet Place: Day 1 he can’t really answer this question, that is, he doesn’t seem to provide much argument to justify the fact that, of all the Manhattan crowds fleeing or seeking survival in the first four days after the arrival of the ferocious aliens who do not see but hear, we follow the two of themAt the beginning and at the end we also see Djimon Hounsouwho has a role in the second film, and the desire would actually be a bit to follow him.
In the rare moments in which the film wants to tell its personageswhen now very far ahead in the story he wants to give them a little personalitymake us fond of them and, in essence, give them a reason, it’s terrible. These are precisely the phases that succeeded the worst. He seems to want to build “non-personalities”: there are no big issues behind them and there is not even a challenge or a stake in their lives that gives strength to their need to to surviveIt is understood that Michael Sarnoskiwho writes and directs the film, seeks an abstraction superior to the other films, in fact he takes aim at the greatest systems and he would like his characters to be the expression of bigger concepts, such as the meaning of a life and savoring the pleasure that comes from being alive, but he never finds the images, the junctions or the solutions to involve us.
