2/18/2024 0 Comments Mgk in bird box movieThe dialogue (with Eric Heisserer adapting from a book by Josh Malerman) is also sharp and realistic, particularly in the opening scene between Malorie and her sister, played by Sarah Paulson. ![]() It’s also an almost perfect mash-up of A Quiet Place and Children of Men.īird Box‘s strength is a unique and vividly realized vision of the apocalypse, which allows for some memorable imagery, like Sandra Bullock in a blindfold floating down a foggy river with two blindfolded in children in tow (are they hers? where did that second one come from?). The rub of this outdoor airborne Medusa virus is that you have to force yourself not to see if you want to live, like a high stakes game of Made You Look. Mass hysteria puts that on the backburner for a while as she has to deal with crashing cars and flying corpses - a full-on societal collapse. She’s a reluctant mother worried she won’t be able to summon the necessary maternal instincts in time for her progeny. The deadly whatever strikes suddenly, coming to Sacramento just as pregnant single artist Malorie, played by Sandra Bullock with a perfect smoky eye, is on her way home from a prenatal checkup. It offers a vivid new vision of the apocalypse without necessarily having much new to say about it. ![]() In Susanne Bier’s Bird Box, that apocalyptic scenario is… an unidentified something - maybe a biological weapon, maybe an airborne virus, maybe an angry God - but certainly a thing that lives outdoors and will make you instantly commit suicide if you look at it (and with a 100% success rate). ![]() With virtually every climate forecast predicting that we’ll see some kind of societal breakdown within our own lifetimes, it’s probably inevitable that we’d reflexively live out our worst end-of-days scenarios on film.
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