Some films speak most loudly by remaining silent

Most movies are loud. Soundtracks swell, explosions boom, and Will Ferrell screams. What’s harder is silence, which is curious in itself since the earliest filmmakers had no choice but to film without sound. But “silence” in modern film can take on myriad forms, whether that be silence in its purest definition—an absence of all sound—or silence in more abstract forms, whether that be a reinterpretation of speech (such as in 2014’s The Tribe) or a score that serves as the story’s only sound (like Disney’s Fantasia).