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Blind Driving: To get supplies from the supermarket, the group paint over the windows of a car and navigate using the satnav and parking proximity detectors.Blatant Lies: While driving over corpses on the road, Tom tries to pass them off as speedbumps.Bittersweet Ending: Malorie finds safety at the end with the children, but everyone else died, and it's unclear how many people in the entire world are left.Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The birth of Olympia's baby is contrasted almost immediately with her suicide.Apocalypse How: A societal level one, to judge by the news reports, as the plague of suicides has swept across the globe, with millions dead.In the film the creatures are clearly intelligent and actively malicious, seeming to control the insane into attacking survivors as well as using vocal mimicry to try and trick survivors into looking at them. Adaptational Villainy: In the novel, the nature of the creatures was even more passive and vague, and it was left unclear whether they were actively malicious or just wandering around doing their own thing without fully grasping their effect on humans.The story alternates between the beginning of the disaster and Malorie's initial days of survival, and the present journey of Malorie and the children.Ī spin-off, Bird Box Barcelona, was released on July 14, 2023. Malorie, with her two children, must flee down a river while blindfolded to find safe haven. The film stars Sandra Bullock as the main character, Malorie, as an invasion of bizarre creatures, whose mere appearance causes people to commit suicide, appear rampant on Earth. Rather it took on multiple appearances depending on the person.Bird Box is a film adaptation of the book with the same name written by Josh Malerman, directed by Susanne Bier and released in 2018 as a Netflix original. While it doesn’t have an individual form as such, the closest you’re going to get to actually seeing the creature is through the pictures Greg drew.Īs suggested above, it didn’t have a form as such. Lucy clearly was interested in Doug’s idea of staying put in the grocery store.

The most common theory on where Felix and Lucy went with the car is back to the supermarket. What happened to Felix (Machine Gun Kelly) and Lucy (Rosa Salazar)? We later hear how a bunch of inmates escaped as well. The man locked in the supermarket was said to have had problems and went to prison. These people were mentally different, kept in asylums and prisons, as we heard numerous times throughout. The other reaction is that it turned people really happy making them want to get everyone else to see the creatures.


The most common reaction is that the eyes would go grey and they’d then either talk to themselves about a lost loved one or scream, but ultimately always commit suicide. People who’ve seen these creatures almost always describe their encounter as this as with an entity that takes on a form of your worst fears or your deepest sadness or your greatest loss.” Why were some people affected differently by seeing the creature?Īs you know, there were two reactions.
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He goes onto say “You got world religion and mythology that’s full of mentions of demons or spirit creatures. He refers to the event as the end-game saying that humanity is being judged. The best theory comes from Charlie (played by Lil Rel Howery) when he refers back to his internet research saying it’s somewhat biblical. The same was also suggested by Douglas (played by John Malkovich) in the house suggesting it could be a bio-weapon. The problem was first documented in Romania which then spread throughout Europe and then into Russia.Īt first, the news anchors speculated that it was either pathological or viral as in disease. The focus is on the people experiencing the situation, not the situation itself.
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Taking cues from the book, the story is about the main character Mallory and her journey rather than the reasoning behind the apocalypse, very similar to another movie that came out this year, How it Ends.
