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Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:strawberry float sake. Taf will have us all for breakfast!

I read that as "have us round for breakfast"

which is actually far scarier a prospect.

I'd never turn down a free breakfast!

Moggy wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:strawberry float sake. Taf will have us all for breakfast!

I read that as "have us round for breakfast"

which is actually far scarier a prospect.

I'd never turn down a free breakfast!

He’d serve mashed vegan sausages. They have to be mashed to avoid a pro-male penis bias.

pixelwinx wrote:Bumblebee.

Took the small child to see this earlier. Really wasn’t expecting much from it but was hugely surprised as to how good this was.

Transformers meets The Smiths. That’s worth a 9.

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:strawberry float sake. Taf will have us all for breakfast!

I read that as "have us round for breakfast"

which is actually far scarier a prospect.

I'd never turn down a free breakfast!

He’d serve mashed vegan sausages. They have to be mashed to avoid a pro-male penis bias.

Wouldn't there also have to be many other types of sausage too? Sausage diversity is very important, all varieties need representation.

Tafdolphin wrote:Anyway. It's a lovely bum which I have no issue with. Synder is secondary only to Bay in his pornographic eye so said arse being the only redeeming factor of said film is hardly a surprise.

Preezy wrote:Bird Box - 6/10

Meh, this was alright.

edit: on further consideration, I'm dropping this to a 5/10.

***WARNING (Bird Box Spoilers)***

This is definitely worth the read!❤️

You all are totally missing the underlying message of this film!

The monster makes you commit suicide and hear voices. Notice that people labeled as “mentally ill” are immune to the monster and they want everyone else to see it. THEY WANT EVERYONE ELSE TO SEE WHAT ITS LIKE TO WANT TO TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE AND HEAR VOICES IN YOUR HEAD. The monster is suicide and mental illness personified. Throughout the film you slowly watch people unravel and fall victim to their own fear, paranoia and violent behavior, all symptoms of mental illness. This forces the audience to ask “Now who’s crazy?”. Without any in depth information about the “monster”, all the characters are figuratively and literally left blind.

Why can no one see the “monster”? Because suicide and mental illness don’t have a face. It can affect anybody. In the scene in the kitchen with Sandra Bullock (Malorie), and Trevante Rhodes (Tom), Malorie says something to the effect of “My sister would have never killed herself. She wasn’t like that”. Today we have those instances of people who were clearly exemplifying suicidal tendencies before they took their own lives, but the stigma surrounding suicide and mental illness often causes people to hide those feelings rather then talk about them; we’ve all seen those new stories and interviews were people who were close to a suicide victim say things like “She never seemed like she’d do something like that” or “everything seemed fine”.

The scene where Danielle’s McDonald’s character (Olympia), asks Malorie to take care of her child if anything happens to her is also very telling. Olympia speaks about feeling like a burden because she was spoiled her whole life and “all that love made [her] soft” while Malorie proclaims she was “raised by wolves”. Both women are PREGNANT, and despite their different backgrounds are at the mercy of the same invisible force. I think this is a commentary on gestational and postpartum depression.

Almost all of the characters are dealing with grief to some degree, especially Malorie and John Malcovich’s character (Douglas). They both watch their loved ones commit suicide. This shows that suicide doesn’t just affect the victim, but also the people around them.

In the end we see that the only way for Malorie and her kids to survive is by USING THEIR VOICES.

Now go rewatch the movie and stop looking at things at face value. That kind of observation is what the film is trying to get you to stop doing. It’s so much deeper than that.

more heat than light wrote:I think it's not aimed at people who think too much. One of my, er, simpler friends shared this on Facebook.

***WARNING (Bird Box Spoilers)***

This is definitely worth the read!❤️

You all are totally missing the underlying message of this film!

The monster makes you commit suicide and hear voices. Notice that people labeled as “mentally ill” are immune to the monster and they want everyone else to see it. THEY WANT EVERYONE ELSE TO SEE WHAT ITS LIKE TO WANT TO TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE AND HEAR VOICES IN YOUR HEAD. The monster is suicide and mental illness personified. Throughout the film you slowly watch people unravel and fall victim to their own fear, paranoia and violent behavior, all symptoms of mental illness. This forces the audience to ask “Now who’s crazy?”. Without any in depth information about the “monster”, all the characters are figuratively and literally left blind.

Why can no one see the “monster”? Because suicide and mental illness don’t have a face. It can affect anybody. In the scene in the kitchen with Sandra Bullock (Malorie), and Trevante Rhodes (Tom), Malorie says something to the effect of “My sister would have never killed herself. She wasn’t like that”. Today we have those instances of people who were clearly exemplifying suicidal tendencies before they took their own lives, but the stigma surrounding suicide and mental illness often causes people to hide those feelings rather then talk about them; we’ve all seen those new stories and interviews were people who were close to a suicide victim say things like “She never seemed like she’d do something like that” or “everything seemed fine”.

The scene where Danielle’s McDonald’s character (Olympia), asks Malorie to take care of her child if anything happens to her is also very telling. Olympia speaks about feeling like a burden because she was spoiled her whole life and “all that love made [her] soft” while Malorie proclaims she was “raised by wolves”. Both women are PREGNANT, and despite their different backgrounds are at the mercy of the same invisible force. I think this is a commentary on gestational and postpartum depression.

Almost all of the characters are dealing with grief to some degree, especially Malorie and John Malcovich’s character (Douglas). They both watch their loved ones commit suicide. This shows that suicide doesn’t just affect the victim, but also the people around them.

In the end we see that the only way for Malorie and her kids to survive is by USING THEIR VOICES.

Now go rewatch the movie and stop looking at things at face value. That kind of observation is what the film is trying to get you to stop doing. It’s so much deeper than that.

Imagine having to explain what an allegory is.