So Bird Box Barcelona tells us a lot more about what the entities are, how they've affected
the rest of the world and also where we could be going for the next film.
Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
Bird Box (Barcelona)
The new film has just released on Netflix and it's got a big ending that we definitely
need to talk about.
Building off the back of the first movie from 2018 we learn lots of things in the film about
how the beings operate.
We also get an idea of where things could be going and it's clear that Netflix are building
a Bird Box universe.
It makes sense too as though that movie had mixed reviews it still ended up being a massive
hit.
The Bird Box challenge was everywhere and seeing my man walking through the streets
with GPS on made me realise we can take it up a level.
Now this movie is sort of like an opposite to the first film and whereas that centred
around Sandra Bullock trying to survive the beings, this guy is working with them.
Played by Mario Casas he's someone we've covered before on the channel and he was absolutely
excellent in The Occupant.
He was always an actor that I thought was brilliant at coming across as really friendly
but you could tell he was someone who had a darker side to him.
That's the case here too and we watch as he infiltrates groups by pretending to be a lost
survivor who can get them to a generator.
Now initially we believe that he's joined by his daughter however we later learn that
alls not as it seems.
After Sebastians wife and her mother died the pair attempted to lay low at their apartment
but him throwing a birthday party gave away that they were lying low.
In the first movie we were introduced to a cult that worshipped the beings and like Sebastian
they attempted to force people to see the beings.
This always leads to either one of two outcomes with either them ending their own lives or
being transformed by the experience.
The latter happened in the case of Sebastian with him now being an agent of the cult who
believes he's working for God.
Named Seers these are called the right hand of the lord and they carry eyes on their hands
like some Evil David Blaine.
Outside of Daredevil and Caine from John Wick theyre the only people who stand a chance
in the real world as in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Now after the party the pair were grabbed and his daughter Anna died.
Sebastian was then greeted by a vision of her and this manifestation of her guides him
through the wasteland.
In the end though it's revealed that she's simply one of the beings infecting his mind
so that he'll go out and help the entities.
Now for the first part of the video I wanna discuss my theories on what they are and this
will hopefully explain a number of different things.
Described as being Quantum Beings these clearly appear differently depending on the onlooker.
From what I can grasp they sort of work on the same principles as shroedingers cat.
Now in case you dont know taht's basically a thought experiment in which a cat is placed
into a box with a hazardous chemical.
Butchering it but, there are tiny electrons that could knock the chemical over and this
spilling would kill the cat.
Until the cat is observed though we dont know whether its alive or dead and thus it exists
in two states at once.
It's only upon observiing it that the outcome is percieved which is the same as the beings
too.
They may not have an actual form and it's only upon being observed that they actually
take one.
Due to Sebastian being religious they seem like Seraph Angels to him which in the bible
are the highest ranking celestial beings in the heirachy of Angels.
According to some accounts their beauty is so great that only God can look at them which
of course ties into the beings in the film.
In the bible they're often used to signal purification and they'd sometimes appear before
Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Back then people obviously didn't have the scientific equipment to measure seismic activity
and stuff so natural disasters were chalked up as being brought on by Gods divine presence.
You can see how Sebastian would get wrapped up in that too and his attachment to religion
is of course mirrored in the Seers leader.
Upon their victims deaths we even see what looks like their spirits floating up to the
sky and you can see how a Seer would believe that this was divine.
However, what I think it actually is is 'aliens.'
Nah I think whatever they are they clearly aren't actually angels but rather they're
using that as a way to manipulate those they can't fully infect.
It's the same way in which they manifest as Sebastians daughter and I believe that they
use hallucinegenic visions to manipulate their prey and followers.
Able to tape into the minds of those that gaze upon them they likely appear in one of
two ways.
Now those that die are likely shown something so horrific that it makes them instnatly want
to end their own lives.
However it could also be something that leads them into doing it through the use of something
they love.
After the bus crash we can hear a childs voice calling out to the woman and this eventually
leads her into putting he head into a tyre.
Clearly reading someones mind they can appear in a way that either torments them or it tricks
them into believing that they're on his side.
They appear as both Angels and his deceased Daughter which makes him believe that he's
on a just cause.
When we look at it the beings appear exactly like his daughter does and the pendant of
the angel that he gives her.
I actually think that these beings are something humans can't comprehend and thus our sheer
misunderstanding makes them take a certain form to us.
However, I think that these beings can also tap into ones memories and through their knowledge
of a persons fears and desires they appear to them like that.
This gets them to either instantly end their own lives or work alongisde them to get people
to open their eyes.
Now I believe that these Quantum Beings are actually interdimensional creatures and they're
not actually part of our reality.
This is why they can't physically interact with their victims and they instead have to
use the seers as a way to touch people.
Eyes make up a big part of the film symbolically and you of course have to look at the creatures
in order for them to kill you.
They also appear on the hands of the seers and they also get drawn onto foreheads.
Sebastian comes across people tied up to a bus and an eye on the forehead has certain
symbolism too.
Psychically this is described as a third eye and it's normally depicted as being on the
forehead because it goes beyond ordinary site.
This can provide perception beyond what we can see normally and this may symbolise them
being extra dimensional.
One of the main reasons they give doctor strange a third eye was so that he could see other
dimensions and stuff like this has been a big thing in fiction.
Now we'll talk later on about how the Seers are immune but the beings clearly realise
that they can't kill them.
Thus they instead use the visions as a way to manipulate them into opening the eyes of
those that refuse to look.
Now where the victims souls float up to we don't know but I think it would be wild if
there was a space ship collecting them in space or someting.
their ships have travelled light years
Obviously we're still early days but they clearly have ulterior motives and are desperate
to wipe us out no matter the cost.
Now Sebastian struggles with his mission when he comes across a camp who has a little girl
in it just like his daughter.
anna
Named Sophia she only speaks German and Sebastians the only other they've come across who can
speak the language.
He grows attached to her throughout the film and even gives her Annas pendant which shows
he's slowly starting to care for her.
Alongisde her is Claire played by Georgina Campbell who you might recognise as appearing
Barbarian.
Slowly the group are taken out one by one by one and it leads to just Sebastian, Sophia
and Claire surviving.
Early on Sophia talks about what happened with her mother and how the pair were split
up.
She stated that there was a radio message put out that said there was a safe place up
the mountain which is accessible by Barcelonas port cable car.
Our Editor Matts actually been up it before and similar to the commune in the first film
it's like a sanctuary.
Elevated, surrounded by walls and only accessible by the cars it's been easy to seal off and
keep protected.
So Sebastian is accepted into the group and acting like a wolf in sheeps clothing he does
whatever he can to expose the others.
That metaphor of a sheep of course has its ties to religion as well and Sebastian could
also be seen as someone who's abandoned the flock when it comes to the Seers.
They act as his enemy too and he even questions whether he's actually a shephard or the wolf.
I did appreciate how there was this biblical subtext that surrounded it all and there's
lots of things you can pull from it.
In the end Sebastian slowly gets away from the grip that the beings have on him and he
goes back to humanity instead of sticking with the visions of his daughter.
It all goes down after the truth comes out about Marcus and though he gets the upperhand
he refuses to remove the blindfold from Sophia.
Realising that he was a grieving and broken man because of his daughters death he decides
to defend the pair from the Seers as they race to the cable car station.
Claire and Sophia run to the top whilst Sebastian faces off against the Seers on the ground.
Stalked by one of the beings they have to take a leap of faith onto one of the cars
and this allows them to journey up the mountain.
Meanwhile Sebastian dies impaling himself and the priest and it stops Claire and Sophia
from being followed.
We get a moment where his daughter seemingly hugs his chest and this appears to be the
spirit of the real one rather than the beings.
The guy also gets a golden light on his face potentially meaning that he actually got to
go to heaven.
Either way at this point Claire and Sophia reach the sanctuary which is where we learn
a lot of things.
Sophia finds her mother here and we also see what the armys been up to.
Now it turns out that the reason that the seers have immunity is because they're all
victims of grief and trauma which has altered their bloodwork and thus their perception
of the world.
Due to the way that the beings operate they need to rely on someones perspective in order
to make them act out and being able to control this will leave them powerless.
Sebastian watching his daughter dying caused extreme grief within him and thus this is
how he ended up gaining immunity.
Withdrawing the blood of the Seers they've been running tests and have so far managed
to make rats survive for 48 seconds before it proves too much.
However it shows that they have found a way to survive the creatures and I think that's
gonna be the next step where things go.
In the end we see them carrying out further tests with one of the creatures contained
behind a locked door and its likely that theyll eventually find a cure.
Now I can see this being how the universe goes forward and we actually have a rough
idea of the plans that Netflix have.
They've said that if the movies successful then several other local language spin-offs
will be put into production and in the end we could get a bird box universe.
It's also likely that we'll be getting a direct sequel to the first film and there was actually
a followup novel released in 2020.
Titled Malorie this picks up several years after the events of the first film with the
titular character and her children still living at the sanctuary.
However a woman there ends up going mad and Malorie and the kids end up escaping into
the wilderness.
Now it's hypothesised that the powers of the beings have advanced to the point that they
no longer need you to look at them in order for them to infect you.
The woman who went mad was actually blind and thus this is thought of being the next
stage.
After a major time jump we cut to the kids in their teenage years and Malorie has taken
two new kids under her wings.
Living out in isolation they start to question whether the blindfold frees them or keeps
them prisoner.
Now whether they end up adapting this is another thing entirely and instead I think the news
of a cure will end up spreading world wide and it'll be something the movie Malorie finds
out about.
She could use this as a way to combat the creatures and with us getting worldwide films
it might be about the survivors of earth coming together.
I could see them potentially fighting this threat or at the very least gaining a form
of immunity that helps them survive.
There will always be dangers but it could act as a way to combat whats going on.
Now as for my thoughts on the film I actually really got into this early on when I realised
that they were flipping the script a bit.
I think this couldve run into just being a repeat of the first movie but they twisted
things enough to keep it interesting.
I also liked that they touched upon the lore of the creatures more and actually adanced
the universe instead of just keeping things where they were.
That wouldve been easy to do too so props to them for keeping things moving.
Now unfortunately I do feel that the plot gets a bit pedestrian come the middle of the
movie and it does kinda drag a bit for that section.
I think they couldve cut things down to help with the pacing but you know, I wasn't avidly
against the movie.
In the end I think its a servicable spin off and though I dont think Scorsese is gonna
be calling it the height of cinema I did enjoy it.
I am interested to see where things go and this actually made me wanna go back and watch
that first movie again.
So in the end Bird Box Barcelona was fine and
it gets a...
7/10
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