![]() It’s just a shitty, disappointing Netflix sequel. It’s sort of framed as nefarious because it involves torturing Seers, but it also raises the Last of Us question: Is it acceptable to sacrifice one for the future of humanity? Unfortunately, Bird Box: Barcelona is not Last of Us. In a nutshell: Sebastian manages to resist his visions just enough to sacrifice himself and kill Padre Esteban so that Claire and Sofia can reach the castle safely.īut there’s a twist! Claire discovers that, although the castle is safe from the monsters, they’re conducting experiments on Seers in order to find a cure, and these experiments involve one of the creatures that the castle has trapped. They’re trying to find safety in a castle community, only to get there they have to navigate around Sebastian, who is also being manipulated by another Seer, Padre Esteban (Leonardo Sbaraglia). Meanwhile, Claire (Georgina Campbell) and Sofia (Naila Schuberth) are essentially this movie’s equivalent of the mother and child in the original Bird Box. Sebastian even forces open one woman’s eyes because he thinks he’s saving her. A lot of injured people on the bus open their eyes and die. For instance, he befriends a group of people who live on a bus, and while they are sleeping, he drives the bus out into the open and crashes it. As for other animals, the group uses seeing-eye. The 2018 Netflix hit is based on Josh Malermans 2014 novel of the same name. Sebastian thus believes he is an angel, tasked with forcing others to open their eyes to the creature. The bird box in Bird Box is full of holes so the birds can breathe Bird Box the movie is full of holes so the audience can meme. Bird Box shows the apocalypse through the ears of Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock), a mother of two who tries to get her children to safety after realizing that the demonic entities who are ravaging the world only affect their victims through their eyes. Having lost his wife and daughter, he experiences visions of his daughter Anna (Alejandra Howard), who convinces Sebastian that viewing the monster is a good thing for others because it frees their souls. Case in point: Sebastian (Mario Casas) is a seer. A seer who witnesses the monster does not end their life, but he does lose his mind. ![]() The same premise applies in Barcelona - and many, many people throw themselves off buildings or smash their heads through windshields - but there are now exceptions: Seers. Blind people had a distinct advantage as they could not see. The only way a person could prevent their own demise was to never open their eyes while outside. In the original Bird Box, if a person opened their eyes and saw the creature/beast/apparition, the person would immediately take their own life, often in creatively unsettling ways. To its detriment, however, it expands the mythology in questionable ways. To its credit, albeit begrudgingly, it is not just Bird Box set in a different country. Three languages are spoken (English, Spanish, and German), it’s set in Barcelona, and - worst of all - it seems to herald the beginnings of a Bird Box universe. Bird Box: Barcelona feels more like the mockbuster we thought Bird Box might be: a cheaply made sequel designed to broaden the appeal of the original movie internationally. So, of course, Netflix had to take it further. However, it was surprisingly spooky and entertaining, skating on its high-concept premise and the talents of Sandra Bullock. Released about six months after A Quiet Place, it felt like something akin to a mockbuster, a straight-to-streaming rip-off of the John Krasinski film. It is also one of the few Netflix original movies that’s actually decent (not spectacular, but decent). Will I ever be able to sleep at night again without knowing the answer to these questions? Unlikely.The original Bird Box was the most-watched Netflix original movie of all time at one point, although it has since fallen to number three. ![]() Malorie and Jessica only made it a few minutes away from the hospital before Jessica got "infected." Given that it took Malorie over 48 hours to reach Rick's safe house from where she was, how did Dr Lapham make it down there? Did she take on the rapids? Or was she able to drive using GPS all the way from the hospital? Of course, Dr Lapham was still at the hospital when the entity started killing people. And it also makes us think, 'Oh, there are other survivors!'" ![]() I felt it was a really warm and hopeful element to the ending. "And I thought having someone else survive, and having someone who she met at a point where she was kind of rejecting life, and having to meet at that point. ![]() "I felt that it needed some real hope," she said. Bier also explained why Malorie's doctor Dr Lapham (Parminder Nagra) was at the sanctuary at the end of the movie, but didn't explain how she got there. ![]()
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