Movie
Review: Bird Box
Laijon
Liu 20190104
Dead
life, blind sight, poor mortal living ghost,
Woe's
scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,
Brief
abstract and record of tedious days,
Rest
thy unrest on England's lawful earth,
Unlawfully
made drunk with innocent blood. - Shakespeare
I
confess, the Bard’s verse sort of fit here, sexy.
the
movie is from novel Bird Box, I am sure it would be much complete
compare to the 2 hour digital one. And I feel kind of guilty not to
follow the contemporary writers, still trying to get all the classic,
and move to modern then, when life, if life gets easier I will surely imbibe on the living. But reading is more of resurrection, which
means mainly to work on the dead.
I
have not seen A Quiet Place, not a horror movie buff, I don’t scare
easily, it’s like soldiers don't watch war movie, when you’ve seen
ghost in daylight, you don’t watch ghost or horror films, and most
of horror films are not scary, but kind of disgusting: actress
wallowing in the mud screaming, and fake legs and arms fly while
chainsaw bursting rattling, ketchup spray everywhere like lunch period
cafeteria food fight, a horrible mess.
But
it’s Sandra Bullock paddling blindfold on an angry river!
it’s
an intelligent, of course, my background of horror film study is
none. But the allegory of the novel pretty revealing of today's social
environment, if/maybe the influence kind of takes root in the
writer’s perception, knowingly or not. It looks like the Ariadne's
thread, a clue, but not same clue; it also get close to Perseus verse
Medusa when Tom shot 5/6 criminals dead, but not exactly. So the
hidden meanings are not Greek mythology, but more like today’s
political social setting, here:
“make
the end of days great again!” that line caught me off guard.
“only
the dead and crazy ones live/last” not sure I got these two exact
lines.
The
majority sane people cannot bear to look what’s there or in front
of them, they will shoot themselves. They see no hope, they fear. They have to shield
themselves, blindfold, so to survive.
The
insane few fond of the sight of beauty that’s truly dark, ugly and
terrifying as those sketch on coffee table. And they are excited,
thrilled and pumped up for the sight.
And
criminals rule the world, everywhere they stroll in
daylight prey on the blindfold, they dare or love to look and they benefit from the
catastrophe. They know it’s their time to run the show.
Last,
the refuge, there the blind are naturally untouched, they do not see
the monstrous terrifying thing, nor can be harmed… they all kind
dwell happily like a family. Is ignorant bliss? Or truth is just too
terrifying? But I pray the leftover criminals never bump to their
front door step. Anyway, all three groups are blind in their own ways.
Pretty
cool film.
