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What Writers can Learn from Birdbox

Netflix’s newest horror flick has been seen by millions and everyone is talking about it. But what can writers learn from it?

(No, not how to live blindfolded).

Character Moments in Crisis

One great standout thing in this film, is the character moments. Characters change throughout any piece, they must do or it is a flat story. But every character hides their true self and we as readers/viewers may never see them. As writers we can slip them in. Mallorie tells Boy and Girl that one of the children must look when the time comes. When Boy (her son), volunteers Mallorie refuses to accept saying that she will choose. Girl also volunteers later on and we see Mallorie look stricken. Despite everything, she does love the children and having to chose which one to do a task which could kill them, tears her apart. We don’t have an inner monologue but we see her pain on her face.

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Fear Creates Fear

The film is a good horror movie for many reasons. One reason being the ambiance. The fear generated in the film drives us to be afraid or at least on edge. This is created by playing on our fears: the fear of violence, the demons of the mind, the feeling of despair and loss of loved ones. The film plays on these whilst taking away a person’s sight making us almost suffocated with that feeling.

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Themes

We have a simple set of themes in this story and each are linked with a buddy. We have Life and Death, Danger and Freedom, Motherhood and Feminism.

Each of these is set against one another. Playing off one another so we have no choice but think as being together.

  • We go from a pregnancy scan to mass suicide scene. When Mallorie and Olivia give birth, the moment is undercut by the deaths of they old lady, Olivia and the Evil Englishman.
  • Danger and Freedom are linked by the birds. Every time the birds sing, danger is near and one should get the hell outta that place. But the birds singing plays parts in Tom’s story about a promised land where they can be free and the ending scene at the Blind School where the birds are freed.
  • Motherhood is something that is pushed on to Mallorie. We can see that she doesn’t really want to be a mom but is forced to due to the apocalypse. She gets the choice of adoption taken from her and is then given Girl to look after. Mallorie has no desire to be a mother but it grows on her. Everybody tries to wrap her up in cotton wool but she refuses to be coddled. She owns her own power with the shotgun, the grocery run and fighting off the crazy guy on the river. She is both a mother and a strong woman, subverting any notion that she is repressed and delicate.
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Si me preguntaran sobre que es lo que siento por ti a pesar de tanto tiempo y distancia, si a alguien le llegara la curiosidad, o incluso a ti, de saber mis sentimientos profundos por tí, les dijera que miedo, miedo hermoso, miedo profundo, miedo pero sin importar lo que me aterre, miedo a darlo todo pero dándolo aún así. Miedo como a una montaña rusa que de igual manera quieres subirte y disfrutar. Miedo a perder, con esperanza a ganar, y confiar, y ser feliz. Alegría diría, alegría con el sentido más claro como el agua, alegría como una sonrisa pura y real, como una risa o una carcajada. Alegría porque es la única cosa que no se va nunca al pensar que te tengo. Pensaría en felicidad, y… emoción, la emoción más sana y linda, la emoción que conlleva vida, vivir, vivir de verdad. Es como aprovechar la vida como debe ser, cómo es para uno mismo, cómo pertenece.

Me he atrevido a escribirte algo de poesía pero sin que rime, me has dado las ganas de experimentar mi mente con el simple hecho de pensar en ti. Y.F

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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.


To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.


On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.


What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’


A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.


If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

  • Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
  • Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
  • Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
  • Come back on the 18th and check in


Don’t:

  • Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
  • Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
  • Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
  • Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
  • Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.


Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.


Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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Idk if this will work but it’s what I’m gonna do so on the 17th

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