![]() ![]() Malorie and the children make it to the safe place ran by Rick, but discover that pretty much everyone there had blinded themselves as protection. The resolution differs slightly to that of the book which was a touch darker. Malorie also reunites with Dr Lapham (Parminder Nagra) who we saw at Malorie's hospital appointment, before revealing that her children will now be called Olympia and Tom, so it's a (mostly) happy ending all round. Unfortunately for the group, Gary is one of them too as we see him looking at sketches of the force. Malorie survives an encounter with such a person on the river in the present timeline who tells her that the force "shall cleanse the world". A newcomer to the house called Gary (Tom Hollander) tells the group that he escaped from people who "wanted to see, they were happy, they were so glad and they said everyone needed to see". Later on in the movie, we learn that not everyone is affected by the force in the same way and some survive their encounter. So while we never see the mysterious force in the movie, it's hinted that everyone sees a loved one and somehow that leads to them wanting to die.Īs if it's not evil enough, the force can also manipulate people into looking at it as we hear it use the voices of people they know to get them to look. Malorie reveals how Jessica started talking to her mum before she died, while Douglas's wife Lydia was talking to her mum who has "been dead ten years". "People who’ve seen these creatures almost always describe their encounter as with an entity who takes on the form of your worst fears, your deepest sadness or your greatest loss. You got world religion and mythology that's full of mentions of demons or spirit creatures," he explains. "Humanity has been judged and we've been found wanting. (Side note – Bird Box is clearly a stealth MCU outing, obviously.) It's here where the movie comes closest to giving a hint about the mysterious force – which is left unseen throughout the movie – as fellow survivor Charlie (Lil Rel Howery) talks about the "endgame". Jessica is affected and crashes their car, before stepping in front of a truck, and Malorie soon finds herself in a house with the likes of Douglas (John Malkovich) and Tom (Trevante Rhodes). In the past timeline, the pregnant Malorie is on the way back from a hospital appointment with her sister Jessica (Sarah Paulson) when the mysterious force hits. This sets up the two timelines that Bird Box switches between through most of its running time as it catches up on Malorie's journey at various stages, while showing how it came to be that she's been left alone with two children. The movie opens with Malorie harshly laying out the rules to her two children, called only Boy and Girl, for the journey they're about to take, before the movie flashes back five years to when the outbreak first happened. Malorie, who is pregnant, finds shelter with a small band of survivors, who have holed up in a house with the windows blacked out.Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play To explain why, “Bird Box” must go back five years to the arrival of the threat, which we never quite see, except as shadows and a kind of static “wind” that lifts fallen leaves off the ground. But it’s not as dangerous as opening their eyes. It’s a dangerous journey, yes the river contains rapids. In the very first scene, we meet Bullock’s Malorie as she prepares to guide two small children, known only as Boy and Girl (Julian Edwards and Vivien Lyra Blair), down a river in a small boat - with blindfolds on. ![]() ![]() The film essentially begins at its climax, and then backtracks, via flashback, to the onset of the crisis, hopping forward and back repeatedly over a five-year gap, effectively destroying momentum. As a premise - which assumes that the sense of sight could open the door to accelerated madness and suicide - it has echoes of the masterful suspense thriller “A Quiet Place,” in which the slightest sound could be deadly.īut as these auspicious ingredients come together under filmmaker Susanne Bier, the Danish director of the Oscar-winning “In a Better World,” the dish never quite jells. Stir in a high-concept plot, inspired by Josh Malerman’s 2014 novel about a post-apocalyptic world in which people must navigate its terrors blind, lest they so much as look at invasive entities with the power to take on the form of one’s deepest fears. Drop them into a story adapted by Eric Heisserer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the brainy sci-fi film “Arrival.” Start with a killer cast, headlined by Sandra Bullock, and featuring John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver, Trevante Rhodes, Sarah Paulson, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery and Tom Hollander in supporting roles. ![]()
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