There’s no real drive or goal in this part of the narrative aside from inconsequential distractions like Greg (BD Wong) killing himself via CCTV, Orwell would be proud. There’s a real stomach-dropping moment where Jessica sees one of the sight monsters, exclaiming “what the hell is that?” before her eyes glaze over and she crashes the car with pregnant Malorie inside.įrom there, the film follows Malorie as she and a handful of other survivors hole up in a house and… just… well, they kind of just hang out, to be honest. This scene will perhaps draw some comparison to the mass suicide scene from The Happening, but Bird Box‘s is thankfully less accidentally hilarious with Malorie and her sister Jessica’s (Sarah Paulson) escape from the hospital where the outbreak is first seen being one of genuine dread and tension and society falls apart before them. The woodland setting, children in peril and sense based monsters will draw immediate comparison with A Quiet Place which also released this year (I personally can’t wait for the next film in this genre to come out, where the entire world is annihilated by aliens that can only kill you if you smell them) but Bird Box takes a surprising turn three minutes in and jumps back to the day the sight monsters attacked. The perfect metaphor for this film comes at the one and three quarter hour mark where Malorie (Bullock) blindly embarks on a tense march through a woodland, only get distracted at the last moment, stumbling over herself, knocking herself out on a tree and revealing how flawed her entire approach was all along.īird Box begins with a good degree of intrigue, with Malorie sternly instructing two children that “if you look, you die” before affixing a set of blindfolds and guiding them past a skeleton to a rowboat.
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