Last night I had a major epiphany about Bird Box.
If you haven’t seen #BirdBox don’t read this.
If you have please read this thread!
If you haven’t seen #BirdBox don’t read this.
If you have please read this thread!
The basic storyline is a mother decides to take her children on a perilous + life endangering journey in order to give her kids a better future in a distant unknown sanctuary.
Before the family embarks on their journey, home for this family is dangerous.
Before the family embarks on their journey, home for this family is dangerous.
Their lives are at risk everyday. They barely have any food. They don’t know how they are going to survive. So they do the only thing can do, they leave.
The journey is horrible. They almost die several times. They are cold, scared + attacked by crazy people.
The journey is horrible. They almost die several times. They are cold, scared + attacked by crazy people.
The mom continues on because she knows this is better than what they left behind.
As I watched this movie all I wanted was for mom + kids to be safe. If I could have jumped in that river myself + used my eyesight to help I would have. All I wanted was for them to get to safety.
As I watched this movie all I wanted was for mom + kids to be safe. If I could have jumped in that river myself + used my eyesight to help I would have. All I wanted was for them to get to safety.
Never once did I judge the mom. Never once did I say, “Why are you taking these two kids on this crazy river.” “Why are you putting their lives at risk?”
All I kept on saying was “Go! Run! Make it!”
All I kept on saying was “Go! Run! Make it!”
And when they did finally arrive it was the kindness of strangers that let them into their safe home + SHARED everything with them.
A few days ago Bird Box had 45 million streams, who knows how many million more streams it has now. Everyone’s saying the movie is amazing & it is
A few days ago Bird Box had 45 million streams, who knows how many million more streams it has now. Everyone’s saying the movie is amazing & it is
My epiphany was Bird Box is the perfect movie for this time. Bird Box is ultimately the story of the caravan.
The movie you love so much is exactly what thousand and thousand of mothers and their children have lived through on their journey to the US.
The movie you love so much is exactly what thousand and thousand of mothers and their children have lived through on their journey to the US.
While Sandra Bullock was being chased by murderous zombies. Honduran mothers were running away from gang members that had skinned their children alive (yes a mother told me this).
While Sandra was trying not to drown on the river, Honduran mothers were walking thousands of miles in the desert without water. Sandra and the refugees risked their lives and the lives of their children for the exact same thing...the promise of safety.
America, if you can open your heart for characters in a movie that are fleeing fake demons surely you must open your heart to real people, fleeing real danger that are pleading for our help.
