Art in a Time of Personal & World Disaster

A surprisingly nuanced lesson from A Quiet Place: Day One

Samira just wants to get on with dying.

She has cancer, she’s overdue for her expected death date, and the friendly nurse at her hospice centre keeps trying to encourage her to write and share poetry at circle, or even go to see a show in the Big City, while she still can.

Which is an unbearable proposition, of course.

She humours him, though, on the promi…