![]() ![]() Some people claim to be able to live alongside the creatures with their eyes open – Athena for example – but it’s clear that’s not true, the camp outskirts are littered with the dead who have tried other tests to see if they can look. In the film there’s the suggestion that the only people who are immune are people who were mad already. What if the creature is looking in a different direction, and therefore not contemplating themself? Do the creatures even have eyes, as we know them? Can they even look in any direction? It’s possible that Gary (more on him in a bit) has been able to report some of that info back, but we don’t get any of that in the book.Īlso: two way mirror turned into magic glasses… Isn’t that just mirrored sunglasses? Cops and mountain bikers would have been fine all along. While we sort of get the idea of looking at the creatures through a massive two way mirror where they can see themselves, but not you, this does feel like slightly dodgy logic. When he arrives in India River he proposes this idea to Athena Hantz, who’s a fan and gets two volunteers to try it out, who don’t die (why would anyone volunteer if every subsequent test has resulted in death?!). Through a two way mirror, he posits, a creature would be forced to observe and therefore contemplate itself, which is something a human might be able to relate to. Tom has invented some glasses using a two way mirror and he speculates that the reason that humans lose their minds when they see the creatures is because they are too far beyond our comprehension. Is there any way you can look at the creatures?īy the end of Malorie, it looks like the answer to that is ‘yes’. But in the books, no, they seem to be just so very ‘other’ that humans can’t cope with looking at them but aren’t deliberately mean. They are in the movie, or they seem to be, trying to coax the kids to remove their blindfolds, for example, and appearing as manifestations of a person’s worst nightmares. Early on there are rumours of people who have learned to live with the creatures but these are unsubstantiated. Looking through a video camera doesn’t help and nor does looking at them in the mirror. If you look at them, you go mad and kills yourself and maybe others. In the 12 years since the end of Bird Box, which is the time when the majority of Malorie is set, the creatures haven’t gone anywhere and in fact they have increased in number meaning living among them is an absolute necessity. Well that we don’t know specifically but we do know more about them. Here’s how it answers your pressing questions. This follow up reveals plenty more info about the world of Bird Box. The movie was a great success for Netflix, and now a sequel has been published, titled Malorie which followers her character and the two children 12 years after the end of Bird Box. In it, Sandra Bullock’s Malorie must try to shepherd two children to safety in a world populated by creatures it is fatal to look at. Josh Malerman’s Bird Box was published in 2014 to much acclaim and the 2018 Netflix movie based on it caused quite a stir. Spoilers from the start for Bird Box, both the book and the film, and Malorie, the book. ![]()
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