{"id":22457,"date":"2019-01-14T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=22457"},"modified":"2019-01-12T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T01:28:18","slug":"bird-box-blind-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/entertainment\/2019\/01\/14\/bird-box-blind-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Box: Blind Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0On Dec. 28, 2018, Netflix released the highly anticipated movie \u201cBird Box\u201d to its streaming platform. The movie, which has a rather high billed cast for a Netflix movie, stars Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Machine Gun Kelly and Trevante Rhodes (of \u201cMoonlight\u201d fame) among its cast. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The protagonist, Malorie, played by Bullock, finds herself in the middle of an apocalyptic situation while she\u2019s six months pregnant with her first child. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0This apocalypse begins internationally with a rash of sudden suicides. Her sister, Jessica, played by Paulson, is worried but Malorie doesn\u2019t seem to share the same sentiment as it\u2019s not even in the states yet. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0However, as Malorie leaves her doctor\u2019s appointment, she sees a woman smashing her head into the glass window in an attempt to kill herself. As Jessica and Malorie speed away from the women, chaos breaks loose. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Cars careen off the road as whatever is affecting people begins to take hold. Jessica herself sees the creature that is affecting everyone and crashes the car, taking her own life. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Malorie luckily survives and makes it to a stranger\u2019s house after the elderly man\u2019s, who we see through a window, wife runs out only to fall victim to the creatures. Inside the house, we\u2019re introduced to the characters that round out the main cast. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0With everyone safely inside, the characters begin to devise a plan. At first, they\u2019re lead by Greg, played by BD Wong. He devises a plan when it\u2019s clear they\u2019re going to need more food. However, it fails and he ends up dying. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The loose cannon here is the elderly man, Douglas, played by John Malkovich. He disagrees with most choices, refuses to let in other survivors, which we later learn may have been a smart choice, and usually walks around slightly drunk with a gun in his hand. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Tom, played by Trevante Rhodes, is the peacemaker of the group. He tries to keep everyone from falling apart and killing each other as well as devises a plan to get food. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The group, consisting of Malorie, Charlie, Lucy, Douglas and Tom black out the windows of the car and attempt to drive to the supermarket where Charlie worked using strictly GPS and sheer luck. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Eventually, through a series of horrific deaths, we\u2019re left with just Malorie, her son and Olympia, one of the other survivors and her daughter. The three make their way to a known safehouse by crossing a dangerous river. Malorie brings along her box of birds, which help detect when the creatures are near. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The creatures in the movie are never really explained. All we know is that mentally ill and blind people aren\u2019t affected like the rest of the world. Those who are mentally ill and look at the creature are affected but seem to become worshipers of the creature, trying to turn others or make them look at it as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Blind people are entirely unaffected as they can\u2019t see and therefore are immune to its powers. The question remains then, why are birds so sensitive? What is it about the creature that makes birds the best warning signal for humans? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0In the video on Greg\u2019s computer, before the creatures manifest, butterflies seem to appear. Perhaps this is a metaphor for \u2018beauty before the ugly\u2019 or something like that. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s said throughout the movie that the creatures play on your worst fear, but one person calls out to their mother, so perhaps it also shows you your dead loved ones and uses them to draw you in. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0There are conspiracy theories abound with this movie, that\u2019s for sure. \u201cBird Box\u201d is a perfect stand alone movie, but I see the threads for a sequel to be possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The ending alone, with Malorie and the kids in the school for the blind safehouse, gives us an option for a \u2018years later\u2019 sort of deal where the creature has been identified, blind people rule the world and there\u2019s a fight to take back society.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Jeri Hensley<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Graphic Designer<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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