Bird Box Barcelona ending spoilers follow.
We’ve headed back into the post-apocalyptic world of Bird Box for brand-new spin-off film Bird Box Barcelona, set at the very same time as the very first film.
The brand-new film follows Sebastián (Mario Casas) and his child Anna (Alejandra Howard) as they try to prevent the lethal hidden animals. Along the method, they partner with a group of survivors, consisting of Claire (Georgina Campbell), Sofia (Naila Schuberth) and Octavio (Diego Calva).
It seems like the very first film once again, simply in Barcelona, however Sebastián has a secret and Anna is not all she appears, altering the dynamic of the film entirely. But in case you were too hectic concealing behind a pillow, we’re here to help by explaining all.
Major spoilers ahead for Bird Box Barcelona, so do not keep reading unless you have actually seen the film.
Bird Box Barcelona ending: What occurred to Anna?
Early on in Bird Box Barcelona, it’s revealed that Sebastián isn’t really attempting to conceal from the animals. He’s already seen them and he’s a “seer”, like Gary (Tom Hollander) in the very first film, and he thinks his objective is to reveal the animals to all survivors.
Whenever he does so, Sebastián sees a ball of light coming out from the animals’ latest victim, which he takes to imply that he ‘saved’ them. At least that’s what his child Anna informs him – although she’s not really his child.
As in the very first film, Bird Box Barcelona cuts down to the early days of the armageddon. Initially Sebastián was attempting to keep Anna safe, however one day, they’re caught by Padre Esteban (Leonardo Sbaraglia) who requires them to see. Anna passes away by suicide after seeing them, however Sebastián sees the animals as “angels”.
From this minute on, Sebastián saw Anna back by his side and tackled his apparently holy objective to reveal everyone what they’re missing out on by using blindfolds. Across the course of the film however, he starts to despair that the animals are all they’re broken up to be.
This realisation does not come till he’s killed the majority of the group of survivors he discovers himself with however. However, when he tricks Octavio into seeing the creatures, Sebastián does not see a light coming out of Octavio. “What if I’m not the shepherd? What if I’m the wolf?,” he tells ‘Anna’.
Claire works out what Sebastián did to Octavio and runs away with Sofia, but he catches up to them. After Claire is knocked unconscious falling onto a piece of scaffolding, Sebastián goes to remove Sofia’s blindfold before he stops himself.
He then commits himself to taking Claire and Sofia to the safe sanctuary at Montjuïc, where Sofia was heading with her mother before she got separated. Understandably, Claire doesn’t quite believe him, but he now knows who Anna really is: the creatures playing with his mind.
“Grief can break you. I thought I was chosen, but I was just broken,” he tells Claire. It took leading a lot of people to their deaths to work it out, but at least he got there in the end, we suppose.
As they get to the tramway that will take them to Montjuïc, Padre Esteban and his group of followers arrive. Sebastián holds them off to allow Claire and Sofia to get to the tram to safety, but it comes at the cost of his life after he skewers himself and Padre Esteban with a metal pole.
Claire and Sofia make it to Montjuïc and are greeted by the military. Sofia is reunited with her mother and in the final scenes, it’s revealed that the military are trying to work on a cure using the DNA of the seers as “the key to creating immunity”.
But does Bird Box Barcelona reveal any more about these unseen creatures that we didn’t know from the first movie?
Bird Box Barcelona explained: What are the creatures?
While Bird Box Barcelona still doesn’t reveal what the creatures look like, it does expand on the mythology of the creatures that was established in the first movie.
In Bird Box, it’s revealed that they take on the form of “your worst fears, your deepest sadness or your greatest loss”. In the new movie, Octavio explains this by comparing it to the observer effect where looking at something changes it, but before you look at it, it could be anything.
“If somehow these creatures are some kind of quantum beings, maybe they don’t even have a permanent state. Maybe they’re changing, fluctuating all the time, till we hear them or we see them and then they take form based on us. Our fears, our grief, our pain,” he notes.
It’s why Sebastián initially sees them as angels, while another seer he comes across sees them as aliens who will “take us to the stars”. The animals can literally appear as anything to the observer, and what form they take appears to define whether that person dies by suicide or becomes a “seer”.
As Claire later puts it to Sebastián: “Those things, they burrow into our brains. They take our beliefs, our fears and they twist them. They turn them into something they can use to manipulate you.”
For Claire, this means the creatures try to manipulate her by mimicking her dead brother and for Sebastián, it’s why the creatures appear as Anna as they know that by having her tell him their mission, he’ll believe it and become their devoted follower.
It’s possible though that by leaving “seers” around, the creatures could lead to their own downfall. When Claire makes it to Montjuïc, the army doctor informs her that they’re looking for a genetic alteration in a seer’s DNA.
“In rare cases, extreme forms of stress can affect people’s DNA, change it even,” the doctor explains. This happened to Sebastián and his “extreme form” of stress was the grief at the loss of his daughter.
The military has hypothesised that if all seers share the same “epigenetic alteration”, then this discovery could lead to a way to create immunity to the creatures’ effects. They’ve already started experiments on rats, using a “seer compound” that has allowed them to see the creatures for 48 seconds prior to dying by suicide.
Given that Bird Box Barcelona ends more than four years prior to the end of Bird Box when things were still pretty rough in the world, it’s possible that the military weren’t exactly successful with their experiments. (Maybe it simply hadn’t gotten to the US by that point.)
But if there’s going to be another Bird Box film, this is certainly going to be a plot point that will be continued in the future.
Bird Box Barcelona is out now on Netflix.
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