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Bird Box (film)

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:04 am
by Heroine of the Dragon
Have you watched Bird Box?
What did you like most about it?
In a post-apocalyptic world, Malorie Hayes informs two young children that they will go down a river in a rowboat. She sternly instructs them not to remove their blindfolds, or they will die.

Five years earlier, a pregnant Malorie is visited by her sister, Jessica. A news broadcast reports unexplained mass suicides spreading across Europe and Asia. After a prenatal checkup, Malorie witnesses a woman smashing her head repeatedly into the hospital window. Others start acting suicidal as well, causing panic and chaos. Afterward, Malorie hurries to leave the scene with Jessica. While steering away from the hospital, Jessica sees something inexplicable that drives her insane and she deliberately crashes her car. She then walks in front of a speeding truck and is killed.

As Malorie flees on foot, a woman invites her into a house for safety. The woman then sees the entity before going into a trance and sitting inside a burning car. A passerby, Tom, picks up Malorie from the street into the house, where six other people – Douglas, Greg, Cheryl, Felix, Charlie, and Lucy – are taking shelter. Charlie says that humanity has been judged, and the appearance of demonic entities is a sign of the end times. He also mentions that those spiritual beings have different names in various cultures, such as Aka Manah, Surgat, Huli Jing, and Púca. Those in the house cover all the windows and blindfold themselves whenever they go out. As a new pregnant survivor, Olympia, arrives, Greg commits suicide after volunteering to test if it is safe to observe them indirectly through surveillance cameras.

Half of the group goes to the grocery store Charlie worked at to restock their dwindling food. They drive there in a car with covered windows using GPS navigation system. Malorie gets three pet birds along with their supplies. She notices the entities' presence agitates the birds. Later, Charlie's coworker attacks the group, attempting to force them to look at the creatures. However, Charlie sacrifices himself to save the others. They make it back to the house. Sometime after, Felix and Lucy steal the car and drive away.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Box_(film)




Re: Bird Box (film)

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:40 am
by Booyakasha
Never saw it. I read the book (ma got an advance copy at a library convention); it was alright, but I don't know but I ever need to read it again. Just as well, inasmuch as I loaned it to my sister, the queen of never returning books.

...do they show the monsters in the movie? I seem to recall hearing that they don't, which is probably the smart way of going about it. Like, if the idea is that there's something so oogedy-boogedy about the creatures that seeing them makes your brain eat itself, well, that's not something easily depicted onscreen.

Re: Bird Box (film)

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:14 pm
by I REALLY HATE POKEMON!
Sounds interesting skimming the info. Kinda like seems like an M. Night Shyamalan film or something.

Re: Bird Box (film)

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 3:54 pm
by CaptHayfever
Never watched it, but the vibe I got was that it's a mashup of A Quiet Place & The Happening.

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