The quiet can be very disquieting while noise can at times bring about fear along with irritation and annoyance.
When you watch a movie where majority of the movie is in silence and dialogues are delivered in sign language, sound can be quite unnerving. When being as quiet as possible is the way of survival, of not being hunted down, noise amplifies fear.
Imagine a situation where a woman goes into labour, gets pierced by a nail on the stairs, painful contraction, but can’t scream cause there’s a creature out there, who though blind has an acute hearing. Or you are trapped in house of a blind war veteran, whom you thought would be an easy target for a home invasion, but then you assumed wrong, and the hunter is now the hunted.
In all these scenarios remaining quiet is paramount, you can’t breathe, you can’t scream, cause it could mean death of you., the end of you. The quietness holds a razor sharp tension, it cuts through atmosphere like a knife. You can feel the tension in the air, the first noise can jarring, can jolt you, surprise you, could startle you, could fill you with a sudden fear.
Coming out of the theatre, every little sound feels like it has been amplified by several decibels, leaving you wondering whether would you’d be attacked for all the noise around you? But then you wished such creatures could attack the morons who mercilessly honk their horns, or think their bike noise is the most musical thing you’ll ever hear.
All said and done we could do with a little quiet. Not that we would be attacked for making noise, but because we need a little quiet to hold on to our sanity.
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