![]() ![]() After the stakes have been revealed in that opening scene, we are quickly taken back five years, when Malorie was a reclusive artist with social anxiety. After making landfall in Russia, the monsters arrive in America, which responds immediately by shutting down its borders - a statement on the current political situation that speaks volumes thanks to the subtle manner in which it is made.īut perhaps the most prominent narrative choice Heisserer makes - and this is true of the source novel as well - is by setting most of the movie in flashback. (Netflix)Ĭertain… ‘creatures’… have arrived on Earth, and looking at them with a naked eye compels the observer to commit suicide. Sandra Bullock has dealt with similar themes in Gravity. The central idea in Bird Box very similar to what we saw in M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening and John Krasinski’s recent thriller, A Quiet Place - although Heisserer has stressed that the book Bird Box is based on was published before A Quiet Place in fact, its earliest draft was written even before The Happening. As a blindfold is pulled over their eyes, Boy and Girl nod silently, and if the movie’s been successful in its exposition, so will you.īird Box has been written by the Oscar-nominated writer of Arrival, Eric Heisserer, who gives it a unique structure, and as is made abundantly clear in that opening, also finds clever ways of communicating vital exposition about the origins of the apocalypse. They must never open their eyes, even if they hear a loud noise, because if they do, they’d die. ![]() They will need to obey her every command, otherwise they’d die. They’re about to undertake the most dangerous journey of their lives, she tells them. She calls them Boy and Girl, perhaps in an effort to not develop emotional attachment. It has its star - the Oscar-winning Sandra Bullock - look directly into the camera in an attention-seeking close-up, and in its opening scene explain to us what the world has become.īullock plays Malorie, a woman who has somehow survived the apocalypse and has with her two young children. Rating - 3.5/5 Sandra Bullock stars in Susanne Bier’s Bird Box, for Netflix.(Saeed Adyani/Netflix)īird Box lays out its ground rules early. Cast - Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Rosa Salazar, Jacki Weaver, Sarah Paulson, Lil Rel Howrey, Tom Hollander, Colson Baker ![]()
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