Bird Box Review

Bird Box is a Netflix movie adapted from Josh Malerman’s 2014 novel of the same name. It’s a Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller and Horror movie with a difference. To be honest, I was sceptical about seeing the movie because I heard it is a psychological movie and is a little scary but basically, I loved the story line and the fact that the blind fold prevented them from seeing their fears, that to me could mean if we don't concentrate on our fears even if we feel it, it will take to where we want to be. Enjoy the plot below.

A strained and scared mother, Malorie, sternly advises two of her unnamed kids, a girl and a boy, that they will go on an unsafe journey down a river in a boat. She firmly instructs them to not remove their blindfolds or else they will die. A scene of five years earlier, showed pregnant Malorie who is visited by Jess her older sister while she was painting. Prior to heading off to a routine pregnancy checkup, they quickly talk about a peculiar news story with respect to mass suicides all through Europe. 

While they are leaving the doctors's office later, Malorie sees a lady slamming her head into a glass board. As frenzy and confusion eject in the city, they endeavor to escape in Jess' vehicle. While Malorie is diverted by a ringing PDA in the back seat, Jess quickly observes something, a mysterious entity, that all of a sudden enters her, making her crash the vehicle in an apparent attempt to kill herself.  

Harmed and alarmed, Malorie can't stop her sister. Obviously possessed by what she has seen, Jess walks before a large truck, murdering herself. In an attempt to escape Malorie follows the mob, and is pushed to the ground. She is rescued by Lydia and they both went to a refuge accommodating a band of survivors.  

However, Lydia also sees the entity and commits suicide by entering a burning car. Media communications was disrupted and goes off-line, the group tries to figure out what has happened, and concluded that simply seeing the entities can cause humans to go insane and commit suicide. So they decide to cover the windows to shield themselves from the entities outside. Greg, the house's owner, attempts to use the house's security cameras to see outside, believing a digital image of the entities will not harm him, but he is still affected, and kills himself. 

As time went by, food supply was short giving rise to the discussion of leaving their haven. Malorie and some survivors- Charlie, Tom, Douglas, and Lucy, decide to go to a nearby supermarket, where Charlie used to worked to get food items. They tinted the windows in the car and use the car’s proximity sensors and GPS to navigate their drive to the mall.  

Douglas drank excessively to stupor and suggested that the group stays permanently in the mall, but the others rejects his idea. As they opened the door, the birds begin to screech and flap their wings, indicating that they can detect the presence of the entities. 

A mentally ill man attempts to force himself through the door while the group struggle to shut it due to the man's large size. Charlie suddenly runs and pushes the man and himself back into the room, allowing the others secure the door, moments later Charlie's assumed murder is heard.  

The group return safely to the house where Lucy and Felix steal the car and abandoning everyone at the house without any means of transportation. Olympia, who is also a pregnant survivor, allowed a wandering survivor, Gary into the house against Douglas's wish, so the group locks up Douglas in the garage.  

Gary told them of other survivors who looked at the entities but survived due to being insane, and are now forcing unaffected humans to look at the entities. When both Olympia and Malorie go into labour, Gary mischievously reveals himself to be one of the insane people he earlier described.  He hit Tom unconscious and went ahead to remove all the coverings from their windows. Gary also murders Douglas and forces Olympia and Cheryl to view the entities, resulting in their immediate suicides. Tom woke up and struggled to kill Gary, saving Malorie and the two new babies. 

The scene of five years later was shown, where Tom and Malorie are living together with the children, whom they refused to name but calls them Boy and Girl. The family receives a radio message from another survivor stating that they are well and safe at a "community" down the river.

Malorie feared it was another trap, so after the receiving the message, she blindfolds herself and the children. As they fled, a group of insane survivors find their house and attempted to force them to look at the entities. Tom, realizing the men may soon kill Malorie and the children, decides to sacrifice himself and taking off his blindfold, enabling him then to kill all the insane survivors with a gun. In the process however, he sees the entities then shot himself in the head.

Malorie and the children still blindfolded, takes them and the pet birds to a rowboat next to a river, where they embark down the river to find fellow survivors. In course of their journey they lost theirs supplies in the water, killed an insane survivor who attacks their boat, and capsizing in raging rapids over their 42-hour journey. They abandon the boat and walk blindly in the forest.

The entities tempt the children and Malorie to remove their blindfolds by mimicking the voices of loved ones, but are unsuccessful, and the family eventually reaches their destination. Malorie discovered that the "community" is actually an old school for the blind and therefore immune, population. She also again meets Dr. Lapham, the doctor who attended her during her pregnancy checkup a few years prior. She accepts Tom's advice and finally gives the children names, Olympia for the girl, after her mother, and Tom for the boy, she also releases the birds