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Netflix’s Bird Box premiered on Friday, with Sandra Bullock leading a harrowing, blindfolded trip down a treacherous river so that she and her two kids can make it to sanctuary, all while unseen monsters and dangerous lunatics lurk around her.
So what happens at the end of Bird Box, and what did it all mean? Read on for some unraveling, some un-blindfolding, and some answers.
SPOILERS for the ending of Bird Box ahead…
What Are the Bird Box Monsters and What Do They Do?
The nature of the monsters and the madness they cause is better explained in the novel Bird Box by John Malerman. There, the world succumbs to disaster a bit more slowly. It’s explained that people see an unknown something, then swiftly go mad and start harming others before finally killing themselves. Before they do, they see something that terrifies them. In the movie, Lil Rel Howery’s character mentions mythology that talks about creatures that make you see your worst fear before you die. That seems to be what the creatures are doing in Bird Box.
What’s With All the Whispering?
When Malorie and her kids disembark their rowboat, they have to run through a wooded area, blindfolded. There, they hear whispers from the creatures, which take the form of familiar voices trying to convince them to remove their blindfolds. Whatever the creatures are, there’s a psychological element to them that know what people will most effect you. So the kids hear Malorie’s voice telling them to remove their blindfolds in order to trick them.
What’s the Sanctuary of the Bird Box Netflix ending?
It turns out the voice on the radio who contacted Malorie — Rick — was telling the truth about having found a sanctuary from the monsters. The fortress is an old school for the blind, and many of the children (and, one imagines, their teachers) who are there were blind to begin with, and thus not susceptible to the creatures.
This is a different — and less horrifying — spin on the ending of the book, where Malorie and the kids make it to the sanctuary and discover that most of the people there have blinded themselves in order to stay safe from the creatures.
