Imagine being a creative who’s unsure about wanting kids but ends up pregnant and alone from a now non-existent
partner. That’s a real life horror story scenario in itself. Sprinkle in the fact that the world decides to “come to an end”
by people committing suicide all around you because of some presence that drives them to do so and you have
Netflix’s ‘Bird Box’. In a series of emotionally stressful situations for the viewers to watch, Sandra Bullock’s character navigates her way figuratively and literally (a lot of the times blindfolded) through a post apocalypse scenario having to depend on the dwindling number of people around her, blindfolds, intuition and birds.
Some kind of shadowy, unseen presence is the reason for people committing suicide. Depending on the character,
the presence could be explained as bio warfare, supernatural entities or a religious prophecy coming to fruition. It
seems to affect people differently but everybody who “sees” them end up seeing their demise except for the insane.
In the end, guess who were unaffected by the presence?! The blind people! Who would of thought!? There they were
at the school of the blind living their best life, while the rest of the world had practically shut down. Watching the movie
definitely has me interested in reading the original novel written by John Malerman while hoping that no such thing
like this ever happens in real life.
