VIVARIUM | Trapped In An Endless Experiment
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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🍿 Vivarium is NIGHTMARE FUEL
🎬 Connor enters a frightening, patience-testing Vivarium, one which places Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots in an endless loop of torment...
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I'm not going to lie. I expected so much more when he lifted up the sidewalk
The meaning of this film was pretty straight forward. You have a happy carefree couple. They get tied down with a house, then a child, then fall into a mundane daily routine that sucks all of the life out of them until they die.
But it's also a metaphor of the opening scene with the birds
There's multiples meanings because what you've said is true but it is also mainly about a couple being held hostage by aliens while being forced to raise their young lol.
This doesn't subvert life; this is the essence of what life really is. We are just players, no different. And some people can't escape their programming so they are doomed to the hell of the daily grind only to be forgotten, replaced and the cycle starts over. Never thinking for oneself, never breaking barriers never becoming better. Just doing the exact thing everyone else has done, rinse and repeat. This is literally my nightmare.
for me, its simply life for most people. we live the same day every day. whether its work or raising children. its the same everyday. until you die, and you're replaced
The American Dream, in its truest form...
The man digging the hole each day is supposed to represent his "job". In the suburban nuclear family, the father goes out to do back breaking labor for 8 hours a day, to provide for his family. I think that is why he gets progressively sicker, he is killing himself to provide for the family. And also you'll notice that he is quite literally "digging his own grave"
Sounds like my life minus the wife or 'kid'
He was sooo over Yonder😂😂(lol sorry)
Watched this movie a couple days ago and loved how perfectly horrific it is to me. Being trapped in meaninglessness with no autonomy has always been particularly devastating to me, and the way it's portrayed in this movie is indeed sickening. Great video!
Thank you!
This movie gave me a newfound fear of suburban neighbourhoods.
Though also thought it would be funny they kept killing the alien baby over and over instead of raising it until the other aliens are forced to let them leave because they'll become extinct at that point.
Or they wuuld just don't care and leave them to starve and die. Leaving was never an option due to risk of exposure of the 'place'.
@@tiborosz1825there's no way to expose that "place", they can't find their way out without the alien, how would anyone find their way in? It's in a different dimension, but yea they probably would never let them out willingly
This movie has outright f#%ked my mind. I'm 41 and I've seen a generation of my age group grow up, stay at home, sap parents resources, bury them and take over the house. Added to that, that same generation (my own) have been WILDLY unsuited to marry, have children, and stay together through the adversity that is child rearing. This movie straight up terrifies me.
I actually really liked this film. Not easy to make a movie so claustrophobic, yet entertaining. I personally have rewatched it but only because the first time I watched it was just after it came out and then again a little while later with a friend. Great breakdown, keep it up man!
Thank you Beck glad you enjoyed the film and the breakdown!
@@UnleashTheGhouls You should do a Nightmare Fuel video of the movie The Day After (1983).
It's brood parasitism. Birds lay their eggs in the nests of other species of birds. Cuckoos do it. The cuckolded (it's where the word comes from) birds feed the chicks of the cuckoos and keep them alive, leaving the original egg layers to move on to create another set of eggs in a different nest. It's more complicated than that, but the movie is definitely playing with the concept.
That really puts the insult cuck into a whole new perspective than "Your wifes boyfriend" jokes.
I really enjoyed this film. Creepy and bleak. Especially as I watch friends and family have kids as a child-free person, I really resonated with the never-ending cycle.
As someone with kids..this has nothing to do with family life.
@@tiborosz1825 hah ok bud.
@@moxxibekk more like having a pet. Always hungry and annoying.
@@tiborosz1825how is that different from a baby? This is definitely mimicking the family life people choose, they look for a home, have a kid and are more or less confined to the roles of worker/provider and caretaker.
@@JustiNDTrollSniper well..my kids love me and care for my well being. In this film the couple does not have a kid..they are given a pet. There is no birth guven by the woman. You interpretation is the nihilist narcissist version.
This movie feels like watching an SCP realized in film
This film reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town" where a young couple wake up in an obviously fake town and try to figure out how they got there. Vivarium was probably inspired by this and by the Cuckoo's life cycle.
Soooo interesting
i think earth is fake and we are living on the counterfeit 😢 this movie is mocking us
I love how you said Imogen ~p o o t s~
The birds raising a cuckoo are unaware that something is wrong. But in the film, people are aware that something is not right. If you don't know then it doesn't matter. If you do know then you will notice that there is no way out. The story might as well have been that people don't know that something isn't right. But that it is frightening for the viewer that they do not know.
Very similar to the idea of grave encounters 1 when the try to break the door down...that sort of psychological horror is so much better and disturbing than jump scares etc
I was told I was a monster for saying, "Just ignore the kid." That comment changed when it was revealed what the child really was. Guess I should trust my gut feelings. xD
Im a big fan of the director Lorcan Finnegan. All his movies stay with you. Especially "Without Name" but Vivarium is his best work IMO.
Absolute gem of a movie. Creepy and weird.
Honestly I really liked this movie- there's something unrelentingly horrifying about being forced to raise a child- especially as an afab man. Not a lot of themes really rock my core fear center, but this is one of them.
This film’s setting is like limbo.
We appreciate your insights on this topic. They're very straightforward.
I might be insane but I've seen this movie like 5 times and absolutely love it
👍👍
That first scene where he's screaming he would have gotten a hammer
splat
Why didnt they just discipline the kid one of those times for acting out? The kid couldve been “turned” and maybe wouldve helped them get out.
I think the boy's kind of allegory for autism.
It wasn't a kid.
He wasn't going to turn on his own species, especially when he had actual interaction and training from them. The pod boy was evolved to be a human parasite
I think it was very telling how the film skipped over so much time. Gemma and Tom exhausted all of their options, by then. They were resigned to the monotony and pointlessness of it all. Tom refused to bond with it (understandably), and Gemma was exasperated but complacent because she wanted to be “released” (obviously unaware their only release would be death).
@@lilscenechick1995 It wasn't that much time really...the kid was the size of an 8 year old in about 40 days!
Sounds like this movie would be a cure for anyone considering moving into one of those ubiquitous, sprawling suburban housing developments....I always say that in America at least, houses are no longer built for the inhabitants. They're built for the builder. That's why we get so few and such tiny windows....and such low ceilings. And either flat-out boxes or boxes set up like building blocks in a standard 2 or 3 models whose differences aren't really different. I call it "profit-maximized reality."
We don't really need to wonder whether or not it's a good film. The amount of emotional reaction tells us that it is. Good art gets people thinking, this film does that whether people like it or not.
Definitely more of a Tales from a Crypt type of short form anthology story that overstays its welcome a little in feature length.
But I still think it's an overall enjoyable movie that leans on rehashing plot points to fill in runtime.
1:05 WHY DID YOU SAY HER NAME LIKE I SAY IT LMFAO
Didn’t hear you mention this so figured I would. The aliens are like cuckoos (birds in the beginning) Cuckoos lay their eggs in different birds’ nests. The female will treat the cuckoo chick like its own and the chick will push out the host birds other eggs/chicks out of the nest so the chick can get all of the food. Crazy
They were SO over yonder😂😂
I believe that the entire place was inhabited by humans, but no one could detect one another.
"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Yeahhhhh this movie had potential and it’s definitely nightmare fuel. But as a story there wasn’t enough of a purpose given. They didn’t really raise the kid, he got all of his learning from the other beings. All the parents really did was feed it when it was hungry. And the martins don’t really have much of a purpose I guess they get more and more human like but to what end? It seems apparent to me that it isn’t the actual species it’s some form of project, a synthetic being to do…. What exactly? Eh, could’ve been something way more interesting.
They are parasites, their purpose is to leech off of humans, that's it. They just happen to do it by fooling humans because they have a more evolved understanding of the laws of physics and can trap humans in another dimension
The birds shown are cuckoo birds, who leave their young with an alike species. They rapidly grow and consume more food than the smaller parents can take until the parents die and the bird thrives and grows. That's what's shown here.
Nothing experimental about it. Those things knew exactly what they were doing
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"I come again, with this sun, with this earth, with this eagle, with this serpent - not to a new life or a better life or a similar life:- I eternally come again to this identical and selfsame life, in the greatest and even in the smallest, so that I again teach the eternal recurrence of all things." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it's obviously an alien experimentation of human life. The aliens don't think like us and lack the creativity or imagination that fills in the blanks of human civilization. It is why Yonder is so bland and boring. The aliens conducting the experiment are only able to mimic what they perceive to be human existence because they have only observed it from a distance. They haven't experienced for themselves. That also ties in with why the food in every house is tasteless and boring, because the aliens have only seen humans eat it. They don't know how this stuff should taste or maybe they don't even know what taste is, another possible tie in to their lack of creativity or imagination. Then we have the child, yet another example. Again, the aliens have only observed the appearance of human children and perhaps only a few basic behaviours but, again lacking those crucial human emotions, create a human clone child with just enough intelligence to mimic a real one.
This could also reflect their own civilization, which I imagine to be very uncaring and harsh. Individuals aren't born but created, maybe in a laboratory. They grow up fast and replace those of the species who have outlived their immediate purpose. There's no emotion or personality behind it. Human civilisation isn't like this at all but to the aliens, it could or should be.
A final thing of note is that Yonder isn't on Earth. From the moment this couple entered the housing estate, what they unknowingly did was enter an alien spaceship. This explains a couple things. One reason is why they can't find a way out, because there isn't one. The simulation is closed off and there is no way out. It also explains the multi-layered aspects near the end of the film. The multiple universes are actually just other simulation rooms on the same spaceship and travel between them is only possible to the aliens, hence why the child clone was able to.
Idk if it's an alien "spaceship" but it's clearly another dimension that the aliens have a more evolved understanding of. I think the idea is more that they are a parasitic species to humans than that they are experimenting on us. They do happen to experiment on us in a very shallow sense of the term, but the purpose behind it is so they can better mimic humans and hence, trick them into following them into another realm. It isn't really an experiment in the sense that it's designed to better understand humans, they just need to learn how to communicate with and mimic humans or no human would ever follow "Martin" to Yonder. It's more like a human "sanctuary" or zoo, where they learn what they need about us for their species to survive. A true experiment would yield better results and a better understanding of humans, but they fail in this respect because their goal was never to really understand the human species, just to trick us into following them to their realm where they have a more highly evolved understanding of the dimensions of time and space, thus allowing them to trap us. It's like a kid "experimenting" with a bug or a frog that they caught, they place it in a jar and try to take care of it and feed it, but it just ends up dying due to lacking its basic needs. It's only an experiment in a very rudimentary sense of the term
You could be right that they aren't "born" but created, I never thought of that, but it would explain why they all seem to be males. I thought maybe they reproduce asexually, this would explain why they all look so similar. Asexual reproduction results in less genetic diversity, but I'd imagine so would creating clones in a lab. When I think about it your idea makes sense too. Imagine if humans actually started genetically engineering our entire species, it would probably result in certain desired traits like "intelligence" and the ability to better manipulate the laws of physics, but could also destroy much of what makes us human, such as emotions and empathy.
The book the kid returned with also shows a petri dish and four sperms. I agree that they’re probably created and therefore very similar.
This is just a metaphor for a cuckoo bird. It tells you it in the beginning of the movie.
From is a better example of being trapped in a nightmare. I enjoyed this movie but it really lost me with the ending. Red/blue light doesnt make a scene more interesting. Better writing could have made this something special.
The Martins are a different alien species of hominid. They are analogous to European Cuckoos or Cowbirds that steal & dispose of other species bird's eggs and replaces them with their own eggs for the other birds to raise.
It is not a good film, it is superb. I do not like this Zuckerberg guy, but this movie was so unique and paralisyng. I was shocked for days after watching it. These 2 actors played their heart out. Holly shit. I believed them.
Didn't care for this one. The kid was so annoying. He looks like Mr Toomey from the Langoliers. This is probably his origin story.
I have another interpretation for this film. It is in all possibility, an anti-natalism film. Like the way they are stuck with a child which is quite literally alien in it's behaviour and to the parents who eventually end up dead caring for it.
The film maybe is a critique of the horrors of unplanned pregnancy, a child the parents are unable to connect to and the nightmare we call "Daily life."
PS. Only my opinion about the film. I didn't really understand it when it came out and found it boring, with time I understand it's true message.
Absolutely one of my favorite. Love the wierdo shit. But not to wierdo. It was 100 perfect.❤❤❤❤❤
buddy wayyy off😅
This movie made me extremely wary of cuckoos.
I hated this film. Appreciated the themes but was increasingly frustrated with it.
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Wasn’t a bad movie, nightmare stuff.A little boring 6/10. Agreed,wouldn’t watch it again , not for a long time.
The baby birds are not just any birds. It’s a cuckoo. A parasite.