Mgk in bird box movie1/11/2024 ![]() Chaos abounds, and Malorie seeks shelter in a confusingly decked-out mansion with a motley crew that includes John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver, Trevante Rhodes, Lil Rel Howery, BD Wong, and for some reason, Machine Gun Kelly. A mysterious force causes anyone who looks at it to go starry-eyed and kill themselves. Suddenly, aforementioned disaster implodes their inoffensively pleasant existence. Flashback to five years before: Malorie (Sandra Bullock), heavily pregnant but still a tough and no-nonsense gal, is accompanied by her horse breeder sister (a criminally underused Sarah Paulson) to an OB-GYN appointment. With a plot this formulaic, it’s unlikely that a full synopsis is necessary after five minutes of watching, but here goes anyway: First, a cryptic shot of a river portends disaster. An apocalyptic global catastrophe as a vague topical allegory? Check, check, and check. A desperate last-ditch journey to a (logically unfeasible) safe haven? Check. ![]() It’s the kind of genre flick that seems cobbled together from grab-bag thriller motifs drawn out of a hat. (In that way, it feels tonally in sync with another Netflix release: “Bandersnatch,” the latest “Black Mirror” installment.)ĭisappointingly, “Bird Box” feels less like a film - you know, that art form with its own muscle and verve - and more like a computer-generated amalgamation of societal anxieties and action blockbuster tropes. (The narrative similarity is so apparent, it spawned a whole new meme.) In an era of increasing paranoia of our collective helplessness in the political sphere, little is more horrifying than restricted agency. Can’t hear, can’t speak, can’t see: Susanne Bier’s “Bird Box” builds on the sensory deprivation horror trope that “Hush” and “A Quiet Place” capitalized on months earlier.
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