There are many ways to form tension in a Movie. Starting from stories, characters, sounds, pictures, and so forth. Bird Box is one of many films that has other ways to form a tension. Bird Box is a post-apocalyptic thriller film that released in 2018 and directed by Susanne Bier. This film is an adaptation of the 2014 novel with the same title by Josh Malerman. The film outlines a story about a woman named Malorie, played by Sandra Bullock. She along with 2 small children, Girl and Boy, had to go through a forest and a long river in their eyes closed to avoid supernatural entities that could make people commit suicide when they saw it. Then what about the review of this Bird Box, besides how to form another tension? Here we go!

Interesting premise

There is no simpler word for Bird Box than “interesting”. Bird Box seems to come up with an interesting and distinctive premise. The major premise of this film is about doomsday, disaster, and some other thins like that which are actually similar to many other films. But what made this film different was the minor premise that has been chosen. In this film the characters must close their eyes to survive. Indirectly, this minor premise has created its own tension. You must ever closed your eyes and then felt like the scariest thing was near you, right? That’s why this minor premise is interesting. Without closing our eyes, we are already treated to tension and horror, what happens when we close our eyes and know that there are horrors behind our closed eyes.

In addition to the matter of the premise, this film also has a different story telling method. Bird Box has a timeline that jumps from nowadays to the past. Because of the jumping groove, Bird Box has many puzzles that are scattered, both nowadays and in the past. In the future, for example, we will be presented with a few small but important puzzles that just make us wonder. Not only in the future, there are also puzzles in the past that weigh more than the puzzle in the future. Then the puzzles that existed in the past were also successfully answered thoroughly and little by little opened another puzzle and arranged the story. The same is true of puzzles in the past. There is not one thing that hangs except 2 things. But I’d better not say it, just watch. Well, many puzzles and at the end of most films are successfully completed, making the story stronger.

How to form another tension

If you watch Bird Box, you will be treated to lots of scenes with adrenaline-spurring tension. Not only that, the tension in this film is not always indicated by big and frightening emotions. But in other ways and more colorful ways. For example in one scene, you will not be treated with fear. But you will still feel afraid in other ways. Well, even though the “scary” scene is a lot, but the tension which raised in this film is not arbitrary. The director seemed to put tension on the right time and moment. She also shows tension with other forms, but still maintains the essence of the tension, which is make the adrenaline increase. Not only that, the intensity of the horrors and the fears of the characters are also shown precisely. No more and no less.

Bird Box is Fully Emotional

After we talk about tension, intensity, and puzzles, we also have to talk about the emotional content in this Bird Box movie. This film is very emotional. In some scenes, your heart is torn apart by scenes that are actually normal, but can make you touched. Not only that, 2 characters of this small child will also give their own tension and emotional effects. The point is your emotions can be played with in this film.

Broadly speaking, Bird Box films provide us the experience of watching a new thriller. This film feels like it is almost like A Quiet Place, only if A Quiet Place can’t have a sound, then the Bird Box can’t see. Even though there were some events that were not finished, like the end of each character’s story, this film still managed to make me who watched willingly not move for more than 2 hours.

So how about the acting? Especially Sandra Bullock? Easy, we will discuss it in another article. Then if it’s about the right score for this film, it feels like 7.5 out of 10 is the right score for Bird Box. What do you think? Write your score in the comment below!