Bird Box - Can people eat cork?

I just finished watching the movie "Bird Box", so I guess I should write something. Although I know it's not related, specially because of these creatures/monsters, it reminded me a little bit of "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" ("Blindness") by José Saramago - basically because they have to adapt to "being" blind, nothing else.

By the end I felt that a few things where left a bit too unexplained, like why do some people look at these "creatures" and commit suicide and why others do not, instead aiming to find people that use blinds and force them to look. But that's ok, i guess it leaves some mystery in the air. So these creatures don't prey on blind people, that's why everyone ended up gathering at a school for blind people... so many people there, blind people, people that can see, dogs, a lot of kids... finally they are all safe from those nasty creatures. That is until those other kind of people (the "evil ones" that make others see the "evil creatures") find them and make them "see"... well the blind people can't see so i guess they'll just use some bullets on those. AH! But that school for blind people is in the middle of the woods, so maybe the "bad people" will never find them. Oh... they are in the middle of the woods, for 5 years, with a ton of people and even pets... *flashback to the first half of the film: Basically they had trouble finding food for a handful of people* I don't think that it's possible to farm in a forest, I saw (yes... yes... I took my blindfold off, sorry mom) no farms while Sandra Malorie was trying to find the kids in the woods, and I doubt that they can have an indoor farm that would produce food for all those humans... and pets (I think I saw a dog multiple dogs... humans can be vegetarians, but those dogs need meat). Considering that the dogs are just there for the scenery (probably to give the sensation of a more homely comfort to the viewer), there's a lot of people on that place and (unless Malorie arrived there right on time for everyone's tea break) no one seemed to be actually working... can people eat cork? I hope they can, otherwise I'm already waiting for the sequel where Malorie has to run away with the kids (with the blinds again of course, otherwise where's the fun?), because everyday someone goes missing, and dinner is always meat...

So... I'm starting to nitpick a lot and the world-building bug is starting to make me itch, so I'm just going to stop for now before I ruin the movie for myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I created this Blog to try to improve my experience in writing, storytelling and world-building. In November of 2018, while listening to a song, right after watching a youtuber's reaction to a great show, a story came into my head. It all started with the lyrics of said song and a character from said show... together they formed a plot in my head, from there more characters where born, then a world started to take shape. Long story short, I now aim to write said story in the form of a novel. My ultimate aim is to write a trilogy around that main plot point, but I have no experience in writing. I was never great at languages, specially grammar, and (even though I'm now also writing a master thesis to finally conclude my university studies) I make many mistakes while writing. Specially when writing my own language, Portuguese, I feel great difficulty when trying to express myself. Probably because of movies/series and History books... I usually watch/read everything in English, so my language almost sounds unnatural to me. Because of this I tend to write my notes for the book in English. But I feel that I'm almost betraying my language if I don't write this story in Portuguese. So I had the brilliant (aka stupid) idea of writing two versions of the books, one in English and one in Portuguese. But that, I guess, is a problem for a later date.

I stopped reading for fun at around the 6th grade, up until then, I had actually read a fair amount of books aimed at about my age, including a series "Viagem ao Tempo dos Castelos", that probably (now that I think of it) inspired me to study History. Maybe I'll make a small entry about that series of books later (not that i remember much of it, I read the last of it almost 14 years ago). But my point is that, because of this sudden desire to write this story that popped in my head, I've decided to start reading (for fun, because I already spend the entire day reading and writing for my thesis) again! This past Christmas I received a book as a gift, it was about an American man that lived with his cat and was basically telling his life experience with said cat. Now... that might have been a good book (and I really hope that the people that gave me that book never read this) but on that same Christmas eve, when I went to bed, I researched the price of said book (around 13€), and came to the conclusion that I could buy something more to my tastes with it. A few days later I went to the store and exchanged said "cat book" for a copy of "The Hobbit", a classic in fantasy, and I aim to get the LOTR trilogy soon. I read the first chapter and... well I guess I'll make another entry about that. Maybe this is already becoming too long.   

Long story short, I'm creating this Blog to write down my opinions on everything that will caught my attention, be it books, TV series, something on the news, or something that happened on my day. This is supposed to be my self training journey at explaining things, sharing thoughts and telling stories, hopping that writing my own book will hopefully stop being only a dream for me.