Had a chance to get my paws on a Vivarium DVD. Played it on receipt. I was very satisfied with it. Put it back in the jacket. Put it in the NETFLIX envelope and put it in the mailbox.
It is on its way to NETFLIX. Or . . . it'll come right back to me.
It seems a race of human-prairie chicken hybrids is on our planet building generic McMansion neighborhoods to study human development. That much you may glean from the title of this motion picture alone.
The idea that aliens are in control is a tried and true tradition. It is a useful device if you wish to analyze the alienating social conditions that really wreck human life on this planet. This is as naked a slap in the face of the prevailing social forces as you are going to find. It puts me in mind of Paralax View with its brisk middle finger to the "powers that be" who seem hellbent, pun intended, on crushing the daylights out of us.
That is what Vivarium is. It is a crushing movie. It is a perfect representation of . . . the World Economic Forum. It is a thoroughbred horror movie and the filmmakers are people to watch. I'm interested in what they'll do next.
If you don't like to question the "authorities", you may want to avoid this little gem. But avoid it and you miss some wonderful performances especially by the two leads. They are perfect choices for this type of material.
You may wish to treat yourself to a viewing of Foxes. It lives on the filmmaker's YouTube Channel. It is said to be a prologue of sorts to Vivarium. It deals with some of the same issues in a Little Red Riding Hood sort of way.
I mean it is not as if the "aliens" aren't human. They're perfect representations of human evil. They are deformed humans. At the center of the deformity is the total commitment to control. We're mice caught in their maze. They're cats. They torture us before they eat us. That's the World Economic Forum in a nutshell.
Imogen Poots finds herself in interesting movies. So does Jesse Eisenberg. They're good binge candidates if you run out of ideas.
