Most Netflix originals are pretty mediocre, but a movie called "Bird Box" was actually quite interesting. Here is one of the events that happens in it. Suddenly, a mysterious presence appears—anyone who catches even a single glance of its form goes mad and dies, plunging humanity into an unprecedented crisis. The true nature of this entity is unknown. Because anyone who looks at it dies, even its appearance remains a mystery. It probably has no physical body and is some kind of spiritual entity. A pregnant protagonist, fleeing through the chaos, is pulled into a private house and given shelter. Over a dozen men and women are holed up inside the house. Among them is an extremely unpleasant guy named A. He constantly makes sarcastic and hateful remarks, and his behavior is the absolute worst. At first, their life under siege is filled with trouble, and some companions even die. However, they realize that birds react to the mysterious entity and can be used like detectors, and eventually, everyone adapts to this lifestyle and peaceful days follow. Then one day, an outsider named B comes asking for help from outside. A, who is extremely paranoid, gets angry, shouting, "I don't want to let any more outsiders in!" He grabs a gun and takes charge of the situation, ordering the protagonist and the others, "Search B's bag!" But the protagonists are already fed up with A's tyranny. Together, they beat A up, take his gun, and lock him away in the garage. With A, the nuisance, isolated, B is welcomed into the group as a fellow survivor. According to B, there is a dangerous group out there. They are escapees from a hospital for mentally ill criminals. They don't die even when they look at the mysterious entity; instead, they worship it like a god, catching healthy people and feeding them to the entity. To be continued.
The protagonists comfort B and leave him alone to rest. Once B catches his breath, he throws the birdcage containing the birds that detect the mysterious entity into the refrigerator. He opens the curtains to look outside the window (which is strictly forbidden), his eyes shining brightly, and starts frantically drawing something using paper and pencils pulled from his bag. What B is drawing is an illustration of a hideous, monstrous entity—presumably the appearance of the "mysterious entity" as reflected in B's eyes. Inside A's bag, there had been a large amount of paper with drawings of that monstrous form. In other words, B himself was a criminal who had escaped from the psychiatric hospital. He had already gone mad, worshipped the mysterious entity, and plotted to turn the protagonists into prey. A, who saw the whole sequence of events from the garage window, shouts out to warn everyone, but no one listens to him. Finally, B makes his move, attacking the protagonist's fellow survivors one after another, forcing them to look at the mysterious entity outside the window while shouting, "It's beautiful! Look at it!" One by one, the companions who lay eyes on the entity go mad and die. The protagonist is also attacked by B and almost killed. Then A, risking his life, escapes from the garage (going through the outdoors where the mysterious entity wanders) and rushes in, engaging in a struggle with B. But tragically, falling just a fraction of a step short, A is killed. Just then, a black man who had appeared to be dead revives and delivers the finishing blow to B. Only four people survive: the protagonist, the black man, and two babies born during their life in hiding—a total of four. The second half of the story is about these four trying to survive. To spoil the ending, it's bittersweet yet a happy ending. The black man was exceptionally cool throughout. My takeaway is that the protagonists' humanitarianism, or rather their peace-addled complacency, led them to invite a dangerous person inside, resulting in the destruction of their community—making it a rather unsettling story. From the standpoint of everyday common sense, A seemed like the most dangerous jerk of all. Yet, the shocking part was realizing that "in this abnormal situation, A's way of thinking was actually the most sane." As A had said, if they had only checked the contents of B's bag, they might have recognized B as a dangerous person and eliminated him beforehand. It was an episode that teaches the importance of checking people's belongings.
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