![]() ![]() ![]() That prospect is both how Bird Box begins and ends: motherhood in precarious times seeming like an initial death sentence and then, finally, a saving grace. How do we make sense of such senseless annihilation, and thus find a palatable future in an ever dimming world? Night Shyamalan’s similar suicide-heavy The Happening is that the appeal is not in how Sandra Bullock’s loved ones are driven mad and forced to commit suicide-but rather how it affects those of us left behind. For what elevates Bird Box above, say, M. Indeed, the surprise feel-bad holiday smash has already been viewed by more than 50 million Netflix subscribers around the globe, and that number is likely to only increase as the weeks pass and the streaming service has to talk more people off the seeming ledge of the “ Bird Box Challenge.” But in the film, the challenge is more than the daft conceit of whitewater rafting with a blindfold on, albeit that is the film’s most thrilling sequence. ![]()
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