![]() Sebastian becomes close to a woman named Claire (Georgina Campbell), who primarily speaks English, and a little German girl named Sofia (Naila Schuberth), and by becoming close with them, the hold the aliens have on him is tested and he starts to have doubts about endangering his new friends. The second group he comes across decides their current hideout isn’t safe, and they form a tentative plan to get to a nearby castle in the mountains near Barcelona, which is only accessible via a wire-rigged tram car that isn’t currently functional. ![]() But we are forced to feel more and more tense as we wait for him to turn on his new friends. Sebastian is a gifted survivor, charming, and seemingly eager to help out any new pocket of survivors he comes across. The fascinating wrinkle in the Bird Box formula presents us with different types of tension as the film progresses. We also learn something interesting about Anna that I won’t reveal here. At this point, we realize that Sebastian is under some sort of mind control, and that he is one of a small handful of humans who is unwillingly aiding the aliens to draw humans out in the open. But while everyone is sleeping on one of the more luxury buses, Sebastian hops in the driver’s seat and sends the bus out of the building and into broad daylight, where the unseen aliens swarm and make everyone on the bus commit unspeakable acts of suicide (the one involving a spinning bus tire is especially…memorable). He seems like a caring, protective father and even manages to form an alliance with a group of humans hiding out in an abandoned bus depot. We meet a traveler named Sebastian (Mario Casas), who navigates this treacherous world with blacked-out goggles and a young daughter named Anna (Alejandra Howard). We’re not even exactly sure where in time this film is chronologically set in relation to the first film, although we do get flashbacks to the beginning of the crisis in Europe-though the bulk of the film takes place some years later (I believe the first film takes place about five years after the aliens arrive). It’s even directed by different filmmakers, the Barcelona-born brother team of David & Alex Pastor ( The Occupant). Outside of it being based on the same novel by Josh Malerman, it has no real connection to the first film. I’ll fully admit, I had no idea that Netflix was producing a sequel of sorts, Bird Box Barcelona, until just a few weeks ago. The film briefly became a cultural phenomenon, probably because it’s easy to imagine yourself in that scenario and what your behavior might be under those circumstances. As a result, everyone walks around with blindfolds on, with the constant temptation to see this entity that messes with your mind by putting voices in your head, urging you to just look at them. ![]() Instead, if you simply lay eyes on the alien race (which the audience never sees), you are driven so insane that you kill yourself. ![]() One of the first event movies in the relatively brief history of Netflix was 2018’s sci-fi adventure film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, in which a presumably alien force comes to Earth and doesn’t try to eat or blow up humans. ![]()
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