The ending of A Quiet Place – Day 1 (our review) sees Sam of
Lupita Nyong’o listen to “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone. Written and directed by Michael
Sarnoskithe spin-off prequel to
A Quiet Place follows the first days of the arrival of the alien creatures. Sam and Eric arrive at Patsy’s only to realize that it has been destroyed, so they go to the jazz club where Sam’s father always took her as a child. Eric tries to make Sam feel better by pretending to be a musician and later brings her pizza.
After some time together, Sam and Eric hit the road with Sam’s cat. Sam gives Eric her yellow sweater as she starts crashing into cars and setting off alarms so the creatures will hear and chase her. Eric has time to head to the dock with the cat, running to get to the water before the creatures catch up to him. He makes it, jumping into the river and making it to the boat. Meanwhile, Sam wanders the road listening to music. She pulls out her headphone jack and the sound alarms the creatures that appear behind her.
Sam muore in A Quiet Place: Day
One?
Sam took off her earphones and let Nina Simone’s music play loudly. Sam knew that the alien creatures of
A Quiet Place they would have been alerted by the sound. The first day ends before Sam’s death is shown on screen, which casts doubt on his death. But Sam drawing the creatures towards him means that he knew they would attack her, thus confirming his death. It’s hard to believe Sam ran away considering her decision.
While it’s possible that she escaped and could appear in A Quiet Place: Part III, Sam’s death at the hands of the alien hunters seems inevitable. Even for the ending of A Quiet Place it is more effective to show her death than to show her: Day One. The character had already been through a lot and had seen death all around him in the few days of the aliens’ destruction. At the end of the film she was at peace and showing her death would have compromised all that.
Sam’s decision to call in the aliens in A Quiet Place – Day 1 explained
Sam risks his life by making noise in the streets so that Eric can take the boat to the island – the same island where the character of
Djimon Hounsou in
A Quiet Place Part II. Sam playing “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone is symbolic of how he felt at the end of the prequel to A Quiet Place. She was at peace, having finally felt alive again after long feeling defeated waiting for her death to claim her.
In her final moments, Sam is the happiest she’s been in a long time. Sam was able to go home, talk about her memories of her father, and eat pizza. And above all she has found a friend in Eric, who truly cares about her. She had been close to death for a long time, having been in hospice care, so it is possible that she felt it was her time to leave. Sam had the opportunity to feel alive again and maybe she wanted to go out on a high note and die on her terms, without fear of her.
Because Sam gives Eric his yellow sweater before leaving
Although she initially didn’t want Eric to follow her, Sam grew closer to him over the course of
A Quiet Place – Day 1. Even though it was a wordless exchange, Sam probably gave Eric his yellow sweater for sentimental reasons. It was something Eric could keep to remember her by.
It was tangible, a piece of her that would give him comfort outside of his cat. Sam could have easily slipped her note into Eric’s pocket before she left, but the gesture of giving him something that belonged to her was a more intimate, emotionally charged act.
Where is the second boat to the island at the end of A Quiet Place: Day 1?
There is only one boat despite the confirmation of a second in A Quiet Place Part II
In
A Quiet Place Part 2, It was confirmed that there were two boats that made it to the island. There were many more boats and people, but the noise of the boats boarding attracted the creatures into the water, which killed almost everyone on board, leaving only two boats heading to the island. However, the end of A Quiet Place – Day 1
It shows only one of the vessels mentioned and nothing of the boarding chaos that accompanied it.
It is possible that the second boat has already set sail and reached the island. It could also be that the second boat was simply off-screen or that the filmmakers simply forgot to include it. But the fact that it was not present in the final moments of A Quiet Place – Day 1 it’s strange, especially since the initial boarding process isn’t shown at all.
Come A Quiet Place – Day 1 prepara A Quiet Place 3
A Quiet Place – Day 1 he sees Eric get on the boat, which confirms that he arrived on the island together with Djimon Hounsou’s character. In light of this, it is possible that
A Quiet Place Part IIIconfirmed after the box office success of A Quiet Place Part IIinclude Eric. He may appear as one of the survivors of the island after the creatures attack at the end of
A Quiet Place Part IIIt is unclear at this time who will return in A Quiet Place Part III .
