![]() ![]() Shortly thereafter, complete chaos ensues on the street as Jessica drives them home. Upon leaving the hospital with her sister Jessica ( Sarah Paulson) after an ultrasound, Malorie witnesses a woman in the hallway voluntarily smashing her own head repeatedly against a window. News reports of mysterious mass suicides in Europe and Asia are ubiquitous, but waved off. The movie begins with Malorie Hayes ( Sandra Bullock) and her two children, aptly named Boy and Girl, donned in blindfolds, hurriedly boarding a rowboat and embarking upon a long journey down the river.įive years earlier, Malorie is pregnant. When seen by human eyes, these creatures cause a sudden, immediate desire to commit suicide. In the not-too-distant future, a post-apocalyptic event is spurred by the sudden existence of supernatural, unseen entities on Earth. Maybe I’ll do my own blindfold challenge! Yeah. After watching this movie, I’ll get more context on that. ![]() I heard that people crashed cars during “blindfold challenges”, so that sounds fun. ![]() I watched and enjoyed The Mist and, obviously, this is similar. If I ever get around to the book, I probably won’t remember any of the movie anymore anyway. And I thought that was hugely important.I like reading the book first on anything, but it’s taking me six months to read 300-page books these days so I decided to just cut my losses and suck it up. There is a hopeful note in certain values that I really appreciate it. And so for me, it was key and, and part of what made me interested in it, was that if this scary, dystopian story, which actually has a hopeful undercurrent. ![]() I'm not particularly interested for the audience to leave, from the cinema or their own screen, with a kind of completely bleak point of view. The book also has a kind of positive ending and I would not have wanted to do an apocalyptic movie that didn't have a hopeful ending. The film's director, Susanna Bier, told Polygon, "The movie is slightly more positive. In the book, Malorie and the kids still make it to the sanctuary but learn that many of the people there had intentionally blinded themselves in order to stay safe after a creature got in. The film ends with Malorie and her kids getting to the school for the blind and finally being able to take their blindfolds off for good. The film's director didn't want such a dark ending. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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