A Quiet Place

A family lives without sound because the things in the woods hunt by it. Krasinski builds the farm as a set of rules: sand paths, painted boards, a baby who cannot be argued with. Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds carry the fear in a look. The daughter is deaf, so the family’s language was already quiet, and the film uses that instead of explaining it twice. The Paramount trailer is the nail and the bridge. The story is the night the rules fail in order.