However, Bird Box reminds that what happens on the screen does not always remain there. “If you don’t acknowledge a thing, it simply goes away,” Jessica sarcastically puts it during the sonogram. Just like her, we blind ourselves to the rest of the world at the push of a remote control button, and mind our own business. The immigrant children in cages separated from their parents, the civil war in Syria, and the irreversible devastation of the biosphere are held in the entitled ones' peripheral vision. In her comfortable numbness, Malorie is one of us, that is, the lucky ones who have the luxury of slipping away from the distressing images of modern life. She does not seem to be interested in what is going on in the world, and the alarming reports of the ongoing catastrophe on the TV is not enough to spur her into action: “Well,” after all, “it’s in Russia.” She just turns the TV off, and continues with painting in her new studio. Completely unaware of the unexplained mass suicides in East Europe, Malorie has not stocked her kitchen with groceries.
“Turn on the news, dumb-dumb,” says Jessica (Sarah Paulson) to her sister Malorie (Sandra Bullock), the protagonist of the recent streaming hit, Bird Box (S.
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