Glitching television newscasts, announcements of closed borders, discussion of religious concepts of the end times this film very quickly taps into all the formulaic post-apocalyptic shorthand it considers successful world-building. People begin to commit suicide and ultimately, ten minutes into the film, Jessica throws herself into the path of a truck in a scene that is difficult to take seriously due to its cartoonish gore. What feels like a typical family dramedy setup involving Malorie, her pregnancy, her relationship with her sister Jessica ( Sarah Paulson, charming and overall wasted on this film), and their deadbeat father, quickly devolves into post-apocalyptic chaos. The flashbacks scenes not taking place on the river, even once the Problem’s chaos has fully made itself known, are bafflingly shot, with the glossy, warm, brightly lit visual character of a romantic comedy. We then travel backwards in time, five years earlier, to the onset of the chaos. Malorie sternly prepares two children for a perilous journey down a river, blindfolded, in search of safety. This is where the post-apocalyptic film cliches begin, and they don’t stop. Because of the nature of the Problem, Malorie ( Sandra Bullock ), must guide her children to a safe haven, blindfolded, after the group of survivors all succumb to the madness of the Problem.īird Box begins with a static-filled message about a nearby safe haven relayed over radio. It chronicles the journey of survivors of the “Problem,” a mysterious other-worldly entity that drives those who see it to the point of insanity and forces them to commit suicide. Bird Box is a post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Susanne Bier, written by Eric Heisserer, and based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.
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