{"id":8547,"date":"2006-12-29T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2006-12-29T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T05:20:00","slug":"the-quiet-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/29\/the-quiet-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"25quie.2.600\"<\/a>The whole concept behind \u201cThe Quiet\u201d is that our main character Dot (subtle) is a deaf mute that lives among the upper class after her parents died. Dot is a deaf mute yet she still narrates every twenty minutes. This is not introversion of our main character stuck in a world she doesn\u2019t want to be in, this is just an excuse to give Camilla Belle dialogue even though common sense would entail her character not speaking. It\u2019s explained later that Dot could speak and hear once, but not anymore. Which is no excuse to give her narration. If you want us to believe this girl is now in a world where sound and communication can no longer exist, don\u2019t undermine it with rambling narration.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile \u201cThe Quiet\u201d is essentially just a ninety minute soap opera, villains, sexual intrigue, and incessant whiny dialogue for the hell of it. Which is a shame since the concept of Babbit\u2019s film is very appealing. Nina is a cheerleader bitch whose adopted sister suffers through her endless torment. Dot can\u2019t hear or talk (or can she?) and lives in her own thoughts. Until one day Nina begins to confide in her with every misdeed that involves murder, incest, and manipulation. The actors within the story just aren\u2019t very talented enough to draw us into the story, and it doesn\u2019t help that Nazemian and Schraft\u2019s writing is pretty terrible. Edie Falco is wasted as meek mom who hangs a lot of wall paper, while director Babbit looks for any and every excuse to expose Belle and Cuthbert near nude. Not that anyone can blame him, but flashing their skin undercuts any chance of them being taken seriously as actors.<\/p>\n

Not that I see awards in their future. \u201cThe Quiet\u201d is a thriller void of thrills, and rightly so since we focus solely on teen melodrama, and drop in, once again on the rich upper crest family with their own demons. How original. We have to then sympathize for these people who lack any sense of depth or complexity, and somehow relate even though about 95 percent of the folks in here resemble super models. Someone has to stop hiring the casting agent for \u201cThe Covenant.\u201d Worst of all, Belle and Cuthbert have no chemistry or dichotomy, they\u2019re just two very vapid characters without any rhyme or reason to even be around one another beyond the plot device of the parental deaths. Belle in her limited range just can not add a sense of attraction to a girl whose sound and voice were destroyed from grief, and she makes Dot insignificant. And Babbit doesn\u2019t help her character reach the audience with utterly mediocre directing that doesn\u2019t increase the tension or the suspense.<\/p>\n

Each and every character is utterly despicable, and no one can garner our sympathies enough to warrant our attention. And then there\u2019s Nina, the villainess (?) who is never same in any two scenes for the sake of cheap inconsistency to adhere to the story direction. Sometimes she\u2019s bitchy, sometimes she\u2019s vulnerable, she hates being a sex slave, she loves it, she\u2019s the queen bee, she\u2019s victimized by her best friend, and she\u2019s awfully whiny. The writing is all over the place, and never sticks to a character frame that we can sit throughout with rolling our eyes. And it doesn\u2019t help that Cuthbert can\u2019t pull off this performance to save her life. Beyond geeky fan boys hoping for money shot of Cuthbert or Belle, \u201cThe Quiet\u201d really serves no purpose. Yet another very interesting concept is ruined by horrible writing, mediocre directing, and a plot that\u2019s better suited for \u201cDays of our Lives.\u201d While watching Cuthbert and Belle on-screen is always good for eye candy, \u201cThe Quiet\u201d is a hilariously bad and utterly ridiculous piece of melodrama touted as a thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The whole concept behind \u201cThe Quiet\u201d is that our main character Dot (subtle) is a deaf mute that lives among the upper class after her parents died. Dot is a deaf mute yet she still narrates every twenty minutes. This is not introversion of our main character stuck in a world she doesn\u2019t want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,696,703,811,1087],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-q","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}