Review and explanation of the movie Vivarium (2020) - Where to live

 

Duration: 97 minutes

Directed by: Lorcan Finnegan

Actors: Imogen Poots, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann

Country: USA

Genre: Horror, psychology, fantasy

Premiere: March 11 , 2020

 

In these days of social isolation , it is not easy to find movies when we are finished watching the hidden implications of it. Recently, WebTech360 has just been able to watch the movie Vivarium (2020) - Vietnamese title : Where I live and I believe that most people who have finished watching will have questions about the movie or feel the movie is so boring. Therefore, let's review and explain this movie to see how good and meaningful the movie is !

I. REVIEW FILMS

Story: The couple Tom and Gemma went to a real estate agent to buy a dream home, when the staff here showed the house in the Yonder neighborhood. However, they are quickly lost and trapped in a maze of similar houses. How will they survive and how to get out? Watch the movie to get the answer.

 

WebTech360 did not intend to enjoy this movie at first because I thought it was an independent B or C-rated film. However, watching the trailer, the movie is quite attractive, produced by Liongate as well as the film, causing a wave of controversy among those who have watched the movie, so without hesitation, I immediately found Vivarium (2020) and always.

Indeed, the plot of the film is nothing new, easy to predict the results, but contains something mysterious and urges viewers to focus on watching the progress of the film. The film has an indescribable charm mainly from the iconic images and quirky images of the characters in the movie.

Many of you will be interested in Vivarium (2020) has many horror elements or not? The answer is no, guys. This film is in the horror genre but is about creating fear through haunting details. In particular, the film shows viewers the impact on psychology and health of staying indoors for too long, so anyone who is isolated at home during the Covid-19 season should watch the movie to know how to avoid it.

It is difficult to judge whether Vivarium (2020) is good or bad because it depends on how you understand the film and what the producers intend. With the details that the film gives, it can be seen that the film wants to reflect the most naked human life in the present time. To understand more about the meaning of the film, please see Part II - WebTech360 movie explanation.

Vivarium (2020) still has a lot of limitations that make your movie viewing experience significantly reduced. It can be mentioned that the lack of climax factor with a narrated film circuit all makes the drama and excitement of Vivarium (2020) seriously affected. In addition, the lack of characters and confusion in the metaphorical images also makes the film more difficult to reach the public. WebTech360 feels many things after the simple plot of the movie, so I grade this part 7/10 .

Image - sound : Surely you will be impressed with the scene creation of Vivarium (2020) because the houses, clouds or bushes in the movie are a bit strange, even weird. í. It feels as if they are 3D models erected in the studio but creates a claustrophobic, frustrating feeling for viewers. The music of the movie is full of good songs, plus the baby screams that really make you want to go crazy and sometimes feel the shiver. WebTech360 scores this section 7.5 / 10 .

Acting: As mentioned above, Vivarium (2020) has very few actors but in return they all show their roles very well. The Tom and Gemma couple led by Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots create a feeling of sincerity and closeness for viewers by successfully demonstrating the image of many young couples today. Meanwhile, the actors taking on the role of real estate brokers have quite an excellent transformation when bringing the quirky, monstrous, and sick look of this role. WebTech360 likes the cast of the movie, so Igave it 8/10 for the acting.

Assessment scale:

IMDB: 5.9 / 10 (8,059 reviews)

Metascore: 64/100

Rotten Tomatoes: 86/100 (Fresh Tomato)

In summary , Vivarium (2020) - It lived a strange film with a simple storyline, easy to guess, but gives the viewer a lot of questions and think about the circumstances of the film. The movie is about the bondage and the human mood when locked in the house for so long, guys. Therefore, Vivarium is extremely suitable to watch in the current days of social isolation . If you love this genre, please find the movie right away and always.

II. MOVIE EXPLANATION

In this part, WebTech360 will exchange and explain the meaning of images and metaphorical details in the movie. So I will have to reveal the content of the movie in this section, so anyone who has not seen it, consider it before reading it. In addition, because the plot of Vivarium (2020) is relatively simple and easy to understand, I do not need to summarize the entire movie content anymore, but instead go straight to explaining the meaning of the film. Come on, let's get started.

 

1. Symbolic meaning of Vivarium (2020)

- Biological significance:

Vivarium (2020) opens with the image of a bird of the Cu Cu family (specifically, Tu Ho bird ) laying eggs in the nest of another species. This form is nurtured by scientists as a parasite - an extremely dangerous strategy for breeding and raising children of some birds, fish and insects, of which Tu Hu can be considered a villain. No. 1 pursues this school.

Tu Su 's nature is an omnivore, so it eats everything, including poisonous insects. The bodies of adult Tu Tu have immune mechanisms like Doan Du, all kinds of inviolable toxins. However, the young children have not successfully trained that god, so Tu Su's mothers do not confidently raise their children because they are afraid that they may feed their children poisonous worms. Therefore, they have come up with an extremely poisonous strategy.

Since Tu Su's eggs are quite similar to those of Chock's, they will find nests that have eggs available to lay in them. The male Tu Tu is responsible for luring the couple of Chich birds out, while the female Tu Ho flies to that nest to lay eggs. After her journey is over, Tu Ho's mother will also eat a Chinchilla egg before she leaves.

When the parents of the Chicks returned, they still thought that their eggs had been born intact, so they hatched and hatched as usual. When they hatched, Tu Ho showed his evil nature in his own eggs. Even though the body is still red and eyes have not yet opened, they still rely on their physical strength to push the other newborn Chiggers out of their nest in order to fully take back the food brought by their parents. .

So evil, but in front of the Chicks' parents, they were still gentle and kept asking for food. The parents of the Warbler did not have any doubts that they had to constantly fly to many places to find food to fill Tu Su 's giant snout , even that snout could swallow an adult. When they have enough feathers, Tu Hu will fly away without saying goodbye or thanking those who have taken care of them.

The story in Vivarium (2020) is inspired by the nourishing parasite phenomenon mentioned above. Tom and Gemma are taken to where they want to be their home. One day, a baby was brought to their doorstep. They raised the baby to grow up, until he was full of feathers, he kicked them out of the house and killed them in the street. In the end, he buried them in a hole similar to the two Chicks at the beginning of the movie and was pushed out of the nest by Tu Ho and fell to the ground to die. In the end, he leaves that nest and looks for new "Warbler" parents to continue sending their babies.

- Social meaning:

Through the story trapped in the residential Yonder , Vivarium (2020) wants to reflect the story of young couples at the present time. We try to borrow from banks to be able to own identical houses, apartments in the suburbs. Every day we keep repeating the actions of being really boring and really stuck in the houses that we thought were that home. Each family lives isolated in their home and doesn't know their neighbors as if they were invisible. Boredom, loneliness, pressure of debt make us want to find a way out for ourselves. We dug a hole in order to escape, but that was unexpectedly the place where we buried ourselves.

 

In addition, the film also shows detailed images of the current situation of a family. The men rushed to work but forgot their wives and children, worked so hard that they forgot to eat, forget to sleep, forgot to have sex with their wives. The relationship between husband and wife is becoming more and more cold while the man only knows about work, so he tries to plow to death. On the contrary, a woman lives in solitude, only clinging to her child to bring her joy and happiness. However, when she grew up, she really realized she had never understood them and wondered if they were her children or not?

The baby is constantly imitating the actions of his parents. So if the environment in which they are raised is not good, they will reflect on that and form their own personality. The baby's scream in the film that makes its parents headaches is illustrating that the parent and child are not on the same frequency, do not understand what they are really thinking or wanting. In addition, the baby's view of meaningless images on TV and in the book shows that nowadays the media and the Internet are stuffing kids' heads with things they and even we don't. understandable.

Another meaning of the story in Vivarium (2020) is that when life becomes more modern, we live separate from nature. The sun, the clouds, the earth, the plants, and the food in the Yonder are all fake, suggesting our future trend to create those artificial things. However, man is an entity associated with nature, the more modern, the more artificial, the weaker we will be and gradually decline.

2. Who is behind the Yonder neighborhood ?

To answer this question, WebTech360 has consulted several sources and even read Collider 's interview with the film's director. In fact, we can understand that the film assumes a alien species coming to Earth. To survive and maintain the species, they created a breeding area, nurturing disguised under the shell of the Yonder neighborhood . Their mission is to bring humans into the Yonder and tasked to take care of the grown-up alien children.

Why are people in there unable to escape and there are no people in other houses? The above question can be explained by applying the theory of parallel or multi-world universes . What you see film series, The Flash of CW , Stranger Things of Netflix or watching Avengers: End Game of Marvel will understand this concept. This means that as soon as they entered the Yonder , the real estate agents took the human guests into another, uninhabited, parallel universe.. Therefore, if you do not know the exit leading from this universe to the universe we are in, you will forever be stuck here.

One proof of this point is that when Gemma chased the baby down the roadway, she accidentally entered the intersection of parallel universes (distinguished by the colors green, blue and red). . Therefore, she sees images of people falling in similar circumstances as she and Tom when having to raise other alien children.

3. Some interesting details of Vivarium (2020)

+ The house is set as number 9 representing 9 months to nurture a baby in the womb. Number 9 is also the number of cycles of human growth from infancy to death.

+ The lifespan of this alien is quite short so we see them grow very fast (similar to the large Tu how also very quickly). Referring to number 9 above. It takes 3 months for the baby to go from birth to 5-6 years old and the next 6 months for him to become an adult. In total, from the time the parasite fosters until he has enough feathers to fly away, it takes 9 months.

+ The baby's cry in the movie sounds quite similar to Tu Hu 's cry . The baby's costume from small to large is exactly like the real estate agent's outfit with two colors of black and white, exactly the same color as the feathers of the Tu Su bird .

 

+ The songs in the movie are selected with its meaning. For example, the song Rudy, a message to you is played when the couple Tom and Gemma followed a broker to the Yonder . The lyrics are like telling the couple to stop this and think about the future best. This was like an indicator of the stormy days that were coming to them when they arrived in this residential area.

+ In the movie, there are many details that imply a type of bird Tu Hu . The couple's car hanging bird image is also a Tu Hu .

Above are some interesting things that WebTech360 noticed when watching the movie Vivarium (2020) - Where to live . If you discover more interesting things, do not forget to leave a comment below this article for everyone to discuss.

 

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