an interpretative analysis of the movie "Bird Box" by Marel Gail Escano

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2019)

THE BIRD IN THE BOX
(1/14/19)
According to scientific research related to biodiversity, the birds when placed in a cage they become depressed and tend to suicide although the person who put them in a cage to "care" or "save" meant no harm
In bird box, the humans are the BIRDS and the invisible monsters are HUMAN. The monsters made the people unintentionally visualize a painful caged (limited) reality, their worst sorrow making them see how limited and dark life can be, resulting to suicide.
On the other hand, the BIRDS (I use capital BIRD to mean human) in the movie who are constantly struggling in life in a special way find the HUMAN to be helpful, as their savior, affect minimally or doesn't affect them at all. It is because the HUMAN "feed" them the "food" the visions of the answers of their questions and problems. Reinforcing the idea the they meant no harm.
Back to science, it is said that in order to prevent the bird's depression they need to be free. And the freedom of birds is commonly defined as the ability to fly or being able to fly.
Humans can't fly in reality but they can fly in imagination, in order to live with imagination we need to forget the figure of reality, and to forget the figure reality is to CUT OFF the connection that made visualization of reality figures possible, the CONNECTION which is the organ called "eye" . In short, in order to fly we need to be blind (get rid of our eyes).
And in the movie by being blind the BIRDS become free from pain, sadness, and sorrow that brought by the HUMANS, and therefore they fly.