A man over the radio speaks in a groggy yet soft whisper. “We have a place, a compound.  We have a community” gentle static hits the radio. “ It’s safe here.”

This is the opening words that had me hooked from the start and made me not want to look away or pause this movie. The film starts with a woman and two young children that couldn't be more than 5 years old at the time. The main Character Malorie (Sandra Bullock) is in this small rowboat with children named girl (Vivien Lyra Blair) and boy (Julian Edwards). The worn cloth covers their eyes from the supernatural entities that laid outside of the blindfold prying to take it off.  The only rule they are given and are not allowed to break is to not take there blindfolds off.

The movie cuts to the very beginning where the “illness” hasn't even spread its way to the United States yet. This scene takes place in Malorie's studio apartment in Northern California. She is painting a picture where “ A whole bunch of people sitting together, but they all feel incredibly lonely” Which is how I think she will feel raising a kid all on her own. When I first saw this movie I think that was A huge step into Malorie's character, and how she is damaged by abandonment. Jess, Malorie's sister played by Sarah Paulson turns on the TV to see why the grocery store is all so crowded. The program explains that there have been unexplained mass suicides around the world and giving advice on how to stay alive.

Flashing to a little bit farther ahead in the movie where Malorie is in the hospital for a check-up of her baby she sees a girl. That just moments ago was happy and talking on the phone now is banging her head on glass breaking trying to kill herself. I found that scene very interesting because it showed that even the happiest people have dark and imperfect spots inside of them that could drive them mad enough to take their own lives. Malorie and her sister rush to get away from the hospital in there car. As jess is driving down the road, she sees something that scares and saddens her to where she crashes the car, with intentions to kill herself.  While jess didn't survive the incident Malorie joins the crowd of running terrified people and then is taken into a home of people by Tom played by Trevante Rhodes.

As the house turns quite enough to hear the clock tick, there is a sudden knock at the door begging and pleading to let them in. Tom bravely opens the door to a complete stranger named Gary (Tom Hollander). He came into the house frightened and scared just like everyone else but something seemed off-putting to me about this character since;he came in the middle of the night, with blood on his shirt, and no scars anywhere even though he has been out in the now inhospitable world. I knew there was going to be trouble coming into the house of paper mache windows as soon as he arrived.

The idea of this character in the story, I think is to explain why there are still people outside coexisting with these malevolent forces. In this movie, the already mentally disturbed people can live on the outside world and not have blindfolds on. The demons that wisp in the wind easily make the sane people go mad but the already mad go sane. The insane people have a sense of peace when they look into the light. The only explanation the audience gets is that “ everyone must look…”

There is one other way that people can survive the wind and light apocalypse. In the book “Bird Box” by Josh Malerman, the ending(spoiler alert) they tear out there eyes so they don't have to see what could possibly want to kill themselves. In the movie, they made the visually impaired people, ironically have the benefit in this instance. I think that it was a very intelligent yet twisty and psychotic to have people tear out there own eyes, yet somehow very smart on their part. In the movie they put a lot sweeter ending and to be honest I liked the way that they did it in the movie.

Throughout this movie, the thrill factor makes the movie what it is and gives us hope that there will be some salvation for these characters that have been struggling and fighting to live for the last five years. I made a very strong connection with these characters in 2 hours and 4 minutes, and while the thrill makes the movies amazing and keeps our eyes glued to the screen.

I just wasn't expecting a happy ending out of this movie. In the end, all the chaos and tension is put to rest when Malorie and the kids are let into the hidden stone building. Although I was still holding my breath to see what happens next, I Had some sort of relief that they were being kept from the thing that lied outside that door. My worry was put to rest when Malorie's worried fingers reached/read the braille on the wall that read “ school for the blind”. Everything went dead silent. As Malorie turns her head to find all of the blind and seeing people happy and playing together I finally found the ending I was looking for. The bird box is not just another end of the world hype movie. This movie brought out all of my emotions and ended up leaving me in tears from everything the characters went through. This movie was truly an emotional rollercoaster that I would definitely recommend riding.