![]() Not to say that it hasn’t received some professional praise Entertainment Weekly, IndieWire – and others – gave the film a favourable write-up, and perhaps saw in the film what majority audiences did.Ĭasual audiences seem to be loving Bird Box. Bird Box has received middling critical reviews, with some claiming that it feels tediously unfocused and lacking in any physical, monstrous threat. Bird Box Barcelona may not make all the sense, hence critics’ mixed feelings on the movie, but it’s an entertaining way to build the world and discuss some deep themes through a horror concept.Critics haven’t been entirely convinced by Susanne Bier’s ( In A Better World, Brothers) recent Netflix-distributed horror-drama starring Sandra Bullock. It’s suggested that because Sebastián was dealing with the grief of his daughter (along with his wife), he became a seer, but I imagine just about everyone in that world is losing people close to them left and right and dealing with a great deal of trauma, loss and violence on a daily basis living in that world. The ending brings some hope to the Bird Box dystopia, while also building on the evolution of the Bird Box world.īut, at the same time, real talk, the reasoning for the whole thing doesn't really make sense. The ending builds upon how different DNA can affect the reaction to these monsters, while also showing how the monsters cleverly have adapted as well to those who don’t kill themselves off the bat. The credits roll before we see if the rats lived or died, but the scene goes to show that humanity always looks for ways to survive and adapt to major threats. Once Claire learns of the reasons why seers exist, we then see that the military is pumping blood out of a seer and giving it to rats to see if they can create a cure through animal testing. That brings us to the final moments of Bird Box Barcelona. (Image credit: Netflix) What Does The Ending Mean For The Dystopian World? With that epiphany, he does everything in his power to help Claire and Sofia get to safety, dying in the process of stopping the priest and the other seers from getting to them. With the help of Claire and Sofia, Sebastián pushes through his grief and lets Anna go by no longer listening to the monsters. He’s a seer, but even if the monsters don’t get him to kill himself they are getting through to him in destructive ways for the world.īy the third act of the movie, Sebastián realizes that in his grief, it was creating this belief that he was “chosen” to help what he thought were angels, but he was aiding and abetting the death of multiple people. He sees her as an angel calling to him from the other side, even though she is a vessel for the monsters, in order to have a piece of her left in his life. ![]() Throughout the movie, Sebastián is clearly going through the grief associated with losing his daughter (and his wife) and listening to the projection. ![]() Let’s take a step back for one moment and talk about Sebastián’s daughter Anna and why her role in the movie really plays into Bird Box Barcelona’s ending. (Image credit: Netflix) What Is The Significance Of Anna In Bird Box Barcelona?
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