Life can be interpreted as a Bird Box story

Irum Butt
2 min readApr 25, 2021

The way there is a protective layer of a box between the birdies and the outside world shown in the Bird Box movie, we also need to be protective in the outside world by staying away from the evil forces. We come across them in the form of different distractors which hinder us in several ways.

Sometimes if we are going through a dark tunnel, such distractors make us believe that there is no end to that tunnel. In simple words, we lose hope in tough times.

Sometimes, if there come challenges in our life, such distractors frighten us, stopping us from going to the next level.

Sometimes, such distractors can cause hypnosis or hallucinations to manipulate our minds in difficult times in such a way that you see such things and hear such voices in your head which are not real. In such circumstances, we turn out to be submissive and get ready to do what those distractors want us to do.

To get rid of all those distractors around us in real world, we need to rely on our human instincts. We must listen to the voices inside us for going towards safety. At times we need to keep our physical eyes shut so we could not be misled. To go in the right direction, we need to open our spiritual eyes to detect any danger beforehand.

Bird Box movie leaves us with a very powerful message that there is no such force outside that could be stronger than the force inside us. That force is called the human’s willpower. It can defeat any kind of evil force.

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Irum Butt

Irum is an M.Phil in English Linguistics. She also writes for the EFL Magazine.