When Fear Meets Faith: The Bird Box and Its Stars
There are movies which entertain you, and there are movies which, like Bird Box (2018) directed by Susanne Bier, remain imprinted in your psyche long after the credits have rolled by. Bird Box is not simply a post apocalyptic thriller. It is a story of survival, belief, and motherhood. But in addition to this, the story’s most impactful aspect is the fact that the lives of its lead actors, particularly Sandra Bullock, resonate profoundly with the hardships and victories of their roles.
A World Where Seeing Is Seeing Is Seeing Is Snuffed Out By Death
The narrative of Bird Box begins as disorder deeply rooted in a frenzy. Humanity suffers an attack by unseen entities, so horrific that to behold them, one is compelled to commit suicide. Bullock, who plays the role of Malorie, is a reluctant mother. She is tasked with the impossible challenge of guiding two children, Boy and Girl, on a perilous journey down a river, blindfolded.
Maternal instincts do not characterize Malorie in the beginning. For her, motherhood is shrouded in ice cold indifference, dread, and detachment. With the collapse of the world though, she is compelled to confront the fears and vulnerabilities of not only her own heart, but the monsters that lie beyond as well. Both the river in the story and Bullock’s character take a journey toward trust, a hope that is transformative, and acceptance of love.
Resilience, that is what Bullock has shown, just like Malorie. During the peak of turbulence in her life in 2010, she adopted her first child, Louis.
Noting how critics and fans described her performance as ‘raw and maternal’: ‘untethered, and thirdly, breaking walls, even fictively, through acting, like a single mother creating a house and home, against all odds, pacing and struggling between and behind them all, bound, behind barriers, walls, barriers.”
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Vivien and Julian, through the characters Boy and Girl, are in a few of the most heartbreaking scenes in Bird Box. One of the most remarkable scenes is when Malorie has to decide which child is going to look out during the dangerous crossing of the river.
Vivien Lyra Blair, despite her young age, was cast into a role that had the potential to be the most brutal, and was able to bring an air of delicacy to the role. Furthermore, she was able to bring an added degree of charm to her role because her personality in real life was very upbeat. To Sandra Bullock, the kids that were in class with her were close to in age to her own children who were waiting for her to come home after long hours of filming, so she states that these kids were more than just part of the play for her too. It reminded her of the story she had to begin with. In an interview, she states that she was able to empathize with Malorie because of Bullock’s statements that everyone has had to face such situations that she labeled as hopeless and Bullock stated, “Every parent, in her mind, will do the unthinkable, the most unimaginable for the love of her children, and Malorie is no different.”
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Rhodes had a fitting story of his own. One time Rhodes was a track and field athlete and started acting much later in his life and was met with disbelief of him succeeding in Hollywood. His Oscar winning role was in the picture Moonlight. That film was about the aspects of masculinity and Rhodes played with the same tenderness in Bird Box. In his interviews, he expressed how he wished his role to carry “the best of humanity, the quiet courage.”
To Indian audiences, the character Tom is the kind of friend or relative who is a calming influence in a storm – the type of person with a level head that can be a real virtue in today’s scary world.
One of the most interesting points about the film Bird Box was how it was constructed. For the character of Malorie, Sandra Bullock opted to perform the majority of the scenes with a blindfolded to enhance the feeling of defenselessness that Malorie felt. She was protected and ran through and rowed through treacherous waters. However, unlike many who performed stunts in Gravity and are now known for it, Bullock is a well known for her adventurous streak and so was very pleased with the task.
Another lesser-known detail includes having conceptual designs for the monsters that were eventually shown to Bullock during filming. The designs were never used in the final cut. Bier believed that the absence of a monstrous figure was far more effective, much like the old-school Indian-style horror stories where true terror lies in the invisible.
Why the Film Resonated Across Cultures
When Bird Box was released on Netflix, it was, for all intents and purposes, a cultural phenomenon overnight. Memes and social media posts obsessed with the ‘blindfold challenge’ went viral, dominating the web for weeks. It goes far beyond the viral trend of the moment and cuts to the heart of something much deeper. In India, where familial relationships are woven into the very core of survival, the very essence of Malorie’s journey resonates deeply. The struggle to protect our family is real and we are more than aware of the invisible pressures society, finances, and crippling fear can impose upon us.
The focus of the film is not only about monsters but the invisible struggles that warrior every individual fights. Sandra Bullock’s character, Malorie, could very easily be any mother from a small town in India, waiting with anticipation and trepidation, trying to make sense of it all.
The Emotional Bonds
The Sad Bird Box made a significant impression on those who watched it on Netflix, not for its success, but for the emotion the actors injected. The role of Malorie was the driving force of Sandra Bullock’s arts, just as motherhood was the Milo’s lifetime. Trevante Rhodes, closer to Hollywood than most, availed himself of the chance to quietly bring dignity to Tom. The young actors, too, captured the audience’s attention, reminding us of the survival of innocence in a world so vulnerable to doom.
The most important thing in Bird Box is not what we see, but what we feel. It is one of the most important aspects of this art, and it definitely makes a lasting impression. In real life as in the film, most of the people are wearing blindfolds. The truth concealed behind them has one undeniable facet: love is the only thing in the world that can bring order out of this chaos.
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