![]() ![]() Although “invisible” to the naked eye, when an individual looks directly at this unseen being, it causes one to see their greatest fears and commit suicide in the most violent and gruesome of fashion. The ultrasound goes fine, but on leaving the hospital, chaos ensues and panic sets in with everyone around Malorie.Īn unknown malevolent entity is infecting the world. On this day, her sister arrives to take Malorie to a third-trimester ultrasound exam. Malorie’s go-to persona are wisecracks and sarcasm. ![]() Her sister is her only link to the world. So removed from human connection, she won’t even acknowledge her pregnancy or say the word “pregnant.” She has not bonded with her unborn child, nor wants to. She has no contact withe outside world or people, let alone any emotional connections, yet her home is open to the world and nature with walls of windows. ![]() An artist, she never leaves her home, not even for groceries. The fear is palpable.Ĭut five years earlier and meet a pregnant Malorie. Not only can you hear the conviction in Malorie’s voice and see it in the manner she grabs each child, intently staring into their eyes, but you feel it. The roar of a river fills the sonic space. No matter what happens, do not take off your blindfolds. We first meet Malorie as she is barking instructions to two children, named “Boy” and “Girl”. Riveting from beginning to end, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer (“Arrival”) and Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier (“In A Better World”) deliver a tension-building thriller that bodes not only one of the most exquisite cinematic payoffs, but one of the most powerful emotional journeys of a single character to come along in many a day.Īdapted from the acclaimed 2014 novel by Josh Malerman, BIRD BOX takes flight with the very human storytelling of director Susanne Bier while elevating and immersing the experience through sound and sight, and the absence thereof, creating a dystopian world filled with a Hitchcockian uncertainty of what’s happening and an unfolding of events through interwoven storylines of past and present which is fascinating and frightening. As noted centuries ago by Cicero and subsequently Shakespeare, both fortune and love are blind, and with BIRD BOX it is that blindness which delivers the greatest love and fortune. ![]()
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