After hiding from the monsters for five years, Malorie leads her children Boy ( Julian Edwards) and Girl ( Vivien Lyra Blair) to the safety of a School for the Blind deep in the woods.īlindness enabling them to survive is meant to be a great revelation in the film, a way that humanity can defy the suicide-inducing monsters. Only the psychotic can harmlessly view them, thinking them beautiful and forcing the sane to look. Even seen through the CCTV monitor, as Greg ( BD Wong) does, they drive you to suicide. The monsters manifest as the onlooker’s greatest fears, forcing them to kill themselves. In Bird Box, pregnant Malorie ( Sandra Bullock) faces invisible monsters that have swept across the world. It suggests we should also teach children too. Released at the end of a catastrophic year for the environment and politics, the film suggests it’s better to be blind to danger than to face it with your eyes open. Netflix’s Bird Box (2018) projects a sinister moral which is overlooked by the popularity it gained through its ridiculousness and the Bird Box Challenge it indirectly spawned. Lloyd looks at the symbolism in the Netflix hit show, Bird Box, and what it tells us about the time we live in.
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