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Let’s Talk About the Boldly Fatalistic Ending of A Quiet Place: Day One
The most daring thing about the film might be the fact that it follows a character whose fate is effectively sealed from the start.
Though it transports the series to a new metropolitan location and flashes back to an earlier time, this prequel/spinoff doesn’t stray far from the blueprint of its predecessors, a pair of unusually muted creature features directed by John Krasinski. The opening scenes of Day One make it clear that she’s dying, even as they remain vague on the official diagnosis and prognosis: Though Sam has moved out of her NYC apartment and into a suburban hospice care facility, she’s still pretty sturdy and mobile. Well past the denial stage of her grief, she declines to participate in an emergency evacuation plan made by the others, rejecting the kind of safe haven characters in post-apocalyptic dramas will often seek.
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