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a quiet place part II

DIRECTOR John Krasinski STARRING Millicent Simmonds, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Noah Jupe, John Krasinski ETA 20 March 2020 4 September 2020

When visited the].” Clearly the audience experience of watching an isolated family (Mum, Emily Blunt, trying to keep her three kids safe) struggle to survive in a world where sound-tracking aliens have decimated the population and society will be different post-Covid-19, but Krasinski has always said both movies are not necessarily about the horror: “The beauty of genre is that it keeps you at an arm’s length, which allows you to deal with whatever’s on the screen in a filtered way.” Rather they’re about family and the importance of community. “If the first one was about the promise that you make to your kids – ‘If you stay with me, I’m safe’ – the second one is about the inevitability of that promise being broken.”

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