History Headscratchers / AQuietPlace

** Evelyn was supposed to give birth in the soundproof room in the basement, not in the bathtub she was hiding in because one of the creatures was stalking nearby. Thr fireworks were an emergency contingency that was supposed to lure them away for a short amount of time, not the original plan. Also, labor can progress more quickly in subsequent pregnancies, so Evelyn (reaching the end of her *fourth* pregnancy) just progressed fast enough that she was able to give birth while the fireworks were going.

* Labors can last for ''hours''. What kind of fireworks last that long? And I'm sorry if it might sound callous, but wasn't the obvious solution to gag Evelyn?

** Well, throughout the the entire film, it's noted that it's not so much the sounds themselves but how ''loud'' said sounds are. Lee yelling was louder than the truck being driven (or pushed)

* Condensing the problems with all of the above: ensuring the survival of the human legacy seems a week excuse to produce a child in the type of world run by murderous sound-driven monsters; children under a certain age are simply too young to understand the gravity and will invariably get themselves and others killed; the Abbots had no excuse to try and bring yet another child into the picture after having seen the proof with Beau. Infants, especially, are flat-out ''impossible'' to keep quiet at all times. The world has been deprived of medical professionals nearby who can ease the naturally loud and dangerous processes of birth, nevermind abortion. Producing new children in this movie is the ultimate IdiotBall move, on top of how difficult it is to even conceptualize it happening--there's no "accidental" pregnancies in a world in which even sex could be suicidally dangerous--they both had to have been ''incredibly'' quiet during the act, on ''top'' of not wearing or taking protection.

* Presumably, just a will to give humanity the best chance of surviving by raising as much offspring as possible. Bear in mind that with the agricultural and a-bit-primitive life they seem to carry on you may draw analogies to the past or even present countryside patterns: more children means more manpower (so useful out in the field), safer retirement (as they can take care of their old parents, just as the latter were doing to the former the whole time) and legacy (making it less likely for the entire family to be wiped out and for their possessions to be destroyed). Still, though, it seems virtually impossible to develop a normal human being in such circumstances without it being killed somehow along the way (''vide'': [[spoiler: Beau]]).

* Actually, it makes perfect sense. You put the smallest in the back, because “To evade a predator you only have to out-run the slowest group member.” As the movie proved, the loss of the youngest was one pregnancy away from being a non-issue.
** Yeah because they were totally psychopaths planning to use their kids to save their own necks, that's totally why later on [[spoiler: Lee sacrificed himself to save his children]]. The kids just feel behind.

* I know this is pretty much the opposite of the point of these pages but this quote: "Live your entire life silently and hope they don't kill you" is sooooo close to getting at a thematic / allegorical understanding of the movie that I just have to comment. I don't mean to come off like an asshole here but I think all you Headscratchers out there in TV Tropes Land would get a lot more out of your cinematic viewing experiences if you tackled these movies using some less literal interpretations. Like, if your headscratcher at the end of Citizen Kane was "Why didn't he just go grab the sled? It was right there in his basement the whole time!" then I think you're missing out.

*** Actually, to answer the first point, it was more than just pitch it was [[spoiler: frequency]], along with volume (it had to be loud enough [[spoiler: to disorient them to expose their weakpoints]]) and, on the second point, from my observation, it wasn't so much the fact that the [[spoiler: Cochlear implant]] emitted that frequency, rather, it was damaged, hence, why it did what it did (to elaborate, I knew a girl who was ''functionally'' deaf and her hearing aid made that sort of noise when interfered with, however, it wasn't loud). On the note of the third point, well, we did see raccoon get eaten (or crushed, either way, it became a splattered mess at the monster's claws?) and that made a high-pitched noise, thus it's more than the pitch, otherwise, we'd probably see more animals and the monsters ignoring them.

** Probably because 1), that might divert much needed power from other sources and 2), that idea might backfire, along with 3), something could go wrong. It's possible that they had other ideas such, as this one, but the system they have was the most feasible one.

Sand or no sand, truck tires rolling on dirt ''will'' make noise, and for an extended period of time given that it was dark when it first started moving, but dawn when they arrived. How would the creatures not be hot on their tail before they even made it back to the house?

** More, firing a gun is an extremely noisy affair. Not only he would have to deal with unharmed, pissed creature in front of him, but also lure everything from few miles around toward himself and his family. Definitely ''not'' helping things.

* I know this is pretty much the opposite of the point of these pages but this quote: "Live your entire life silently and hope they don't kill you" is sooooo close to getting at a thematic / allegorical understanding of the movie that I just have to comment. I don't mean to come off like an asshole here but I think all you Headscratchers out there in TVTropes Land would get a lot more out of your cinematic viewing experiences if you tackled these movies using some less literal interpretations. Like, if your headscratcher at the end of Citizen Kane was "Why didn't he just go grab the sled? It was right there in his basement the whole time!" then I think you're missing out.

* And what benefit would that be? In Lee's research area he has articles detailing that nothing at that point in time with available information would do anything other than piss them off, combine that with unnecessary weight of the shotgun and the potential of dropping it and making noise. It makes no logical sense for him to consider taking a shotgun.

Why didn't Lee bring a gun with him when he went to go look for his kids?

** If I recall that scene correctly, um, it got flooded from a broken pipe and, since the baby was quiet, Evelyn probably opened the casket with the baby in it, removing the oxygen mask (as he could breath just fine after crying), along with that the creature found a way in through some opening by following the sound of the water (and any soundwaves traveling through the water). In terms of why the monster didn't attack the baby, well, it was listening for the threshold (sounds have to be at a certain threshold to set them off).

* Well, they navigate by sound, however, it possible they probably have some level of sensory hairs located on the outside of it's body to feel around.

*** Well, they could have done that but that still would take away from other resources. That and I think the monsters would pick up on it eventually (think the seen with the egg timer).

The scene in the flooded basement is very confusing. How did the basement get flooded so quickly, even if it was a major pipe that was severed? And who opened the casket with the infant? Who removed his oxygen mask and why? How did the creature even come in, and why didn't it attack immediately? For most of that scene, this troper thought it was really just a nightmare sequence of Evelyn's.

** Well, we do know that they can swim as, [[spoiler: towards the end, during the scene with Evelyn and the baby in their safehouse]], one did go underwater and there's the fact that they can survive a long time without needing to breath, so them getting there wouldn't be too much a of problem (though some probably did get picked off by much bigger creatures)but it's possible that the asteroid had actually broken apart and one part landed elsewhere.