“When a cat becomes wet, their hair is heavier, colder, and uncomfortable,” Dr. Eve Elektra Cohen, a veterinary consultant, said cats find being wet a severe discomfort that throws them off their game, so to speak. In a July 2020 story on Reader’s Digest, Dr. Or, alternatively, they find water to be a hindrance to their ability to hunt and feed. The fact they’re averse to water suggests their planet may be devoid of the stuff. Still, what little the filmmakers have revealed about the aliens is ripe for speculation. It’s about humanity, and how humanity survives.” And so, why they invade is sort of irrelevant to me because the movie’s not about the creatures. “I think all you need to know is that they invade,” she said. In an interview with CinemaBlend, Blunt agreed. “Yet I think the power of the world is the thing that makes it so possible to delve into it again.” “This was never designed to be a franchise,” he said. In behind-the-scenes material released by Paramount, John Krasinski confessed he had “no intention” of ever doing a sequel after 2018’s A Quiet Place. Like Signs, the filmmakers recognize that the less known about the aliens, the better the story works. A QUIET PLACE ALIENS SERIESWhat Quiet Place 2 tells us about the aliensĪ Quiet Place isn’t a film series too eager to expand on its alien lore. The aliens in A Quiet Place aren’t “weak” to water, they just really hate it. Think of certain cat breeds and their annoyance to water. And it seems to be less about water as a damaging property than it is a nuisance. Rather, it’s large bodies of water the aliens in A Quiet Place 2 can’t overcome. Only the noise it generates as water droplets fall all around them. A QUIET PLACE ALIENS MOVIEWe know this based on a scene later in the movie when Emily Blunt’s Evelyn activates a sprinkler system to sneak past an alien, which shows no allergy towards the water itself. Based on visual evidence in the movie, water isn’t alien Kryptonite like in Signs - a fully loaded SuperSoaker isn’t the most powerful thing one could wield in this post-apocalypse. (This, of course, glosses over the movie’s thoughtful themes and religious imagery, evidenced by its main protagonist of an ex-priest played by Mel Gibson, and the symbolic ways water exists in Catholicism.)īut things are a little different in A Quiet Place Part II than in Signs. If water is really that bad for aliens, they’d be wise to avoid rainy Seattle or humid New Jersey in the summer. This drew criticism from lore hounds who questioned why a species would choose to invade a planet quite literally covered in water, not to mention all the water that exists in our air and atmosphere. Night Shyamalan’s Signs will remember how water was like acid to its invading aliens. Geriatric millennials with memories of M. For all the aliens’ inhuman powers and physical prowess, there are some islands they’ve simply never been to.Įvelyn, played again by Emily Blunt, finds a way to sneak past an alien late in the movie using an unlikely resource: Water. That makes little islands like the one Regan and Emmett discover a refuge from never-ending danger. They soon run into an old family friend, Emmett (Cillian Murphy), who eventually helps Regan find a community of survivors living comfortably on an island.Īs only some have discovered, the aliens - who still do not have a formal name - have an aversion to large bodies of water. In A Quiet Place Part II, the surviving members of the Abbot family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe) pack up and leave to seek a safe home elsewhere. Warning! Spoilers for A Quiet Place Part II ahead. And it’s the very thing that gives us life: water. But science-fiction stories frequently speculate on the existence of life beyond our borders - and certain stories give us earthlings a natural advantage over our hostile visitors.Ī Quiet Place Part II, the very good sequel to 2018’s A Quiet Place from director John Krasinski, reveals a new weakness of the advanced aliens whose ability to hear and pinpoint sounds is, quite literally, out of this world. It’s no surprise, then, that this green and blue rock of ours the only (known) planet in our solar system teeming with life. 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is made up of water.
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