This past December, Netflix released a movie titled "Bird Box." Most people have probably noticed this title everywhere recently. Not only did Netflix promote the movie on their own platform, but many viewers took to social media with their own opinions. That being said, it still took me two and a half weeks to sit down and watch it.

Within the first five minutes of the movie, I was confused. I tried not to look at any spoilers before watching and didn't catch on to the story at first. The movie flips back and forth between real time and flashbacks of how the initial disaster unfolded.

In the flashbacks, Malorie is a pregnant woman who watches her whole world fall upside down when creatures you can't see without dying take over. In real time, Malorie is a single mom of two living in a post-apocalyptic world. She and the two kids have to sail across a deadly river blindfolded in order to reach safety.

One major thing started bugging me while watching the movie. Since it is flipping between two times, the story isn't entirely set up until you get over halfway through the film. For me, this made it a little irritating to watch. On the other hand, it meant the movie could set up questions that you knew would be answered later on. For this reason, I was hooked.

Upon finishing the film, my first instinct was to take to the internet and see what other people's thoughts were. I realized the internet had a very different but validated question that had slipped my thoughts.

Did Malorie even love the two children?

Those who saw the film know she named them Girl and Boy. We also know Girl isn't even Malorie's biological child. Throughout the movie, we see how rough Malorie is with the kids. She's not afraid to yell at them and bark orders. Some have even gotten the idea that Malorie views them as nothing but baggage.

The closest thing I have to an answer is that Malorie never let either one of them take their blindfolds off. Even in their home, they slept with tents covering their heads. As sick as it is to say, if Malorie didn't love those kids, she wouldn't have saved them as many times as she did.

Upon analyzing the film a little closer, I realized the story is really about Malorie from beginning to end. She starts off pregnant with a child she doesn't know if she wants and ends up with two splat in the middle of the end, of all things. The internet may not see Malorie as the mothering type, but she protected those kids above all else when the world left nobody else to save them.