"Here's to hoping there is more."

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2019)

The movie is actually a fairly good metaphor for the times. Mass hysteria grips humanity and a herd mentality exists for everyone to save themselves from an invisible (imaginary?) monster. Does it sound like the mass media jumping on every single imagined slight against one of their cherished icons in an effort to discredit or destroy. We see it every day now in the headlines, outrage over someone cracking a politically incorrect joke, or slighting someone over their personal beliefs. Kevin Hart anyone? Let's all jump on the soapbox with our moral superiority and condemn the man for a nine year old tweet, and even after an apology, it's not enough.
It's all brought to the fore in the picture. Distorted whispers, rumblings and growlings are designed to get people to take off their blindfolds and look, for what they see might influence them to join the crowd. Only joining the crowd in this case leads to insanity and certain death. It's the ones who can think for themselves who have any hope of saving themselves and persevering to escape the madness. There's even the notion that individuals are meaningless in this construct, otherwise why name the two kids 'Boy' and 'Girl' instead of giving them an identity of their own. In that regard, I think the picture left it perfectly ambiguous for each of those five year olds as to who their real mothers actually were. They called Malorie (Sandra Bullock) by her name, and not 'Mom'. No sense in confusing love and family with the notion that 'it takes a village' to raise youth to acceptable adulthood. And then they arrive at a village where everything will be nice and safe again. Gee.
Aside from my astute analysis, I'd like to know how a cardboard box with a removable lid, and the three parakeets inside, survived the overturned boat in the raging rapids.