It's a peculiar phenomenon, the success of A Quiet Place. I confess that I didn't love it; I found it to have the substance of a twenty-minute Oscar-nominated live-action short subject, but that was far from the worst part of the experience. Above all, I had the sense that John Krasinski, as director, didn't see what he was doing—didn't see the implications, the metaphors, the symbols, that arose from the seemingly innocuous and merely entertaining story. They're ugly and regressive, and I suspect that they weren't at all intended—but that they play a significant role in the movie's success nonetheless:
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