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Vivarium (2019)
An Ambitious Effort
When I was watching the movie, I kept remembering a short story: Goldfish Bowl by Robert A. Heinlein, a masterpiece in itself. Vivarium has a big difference though: it lacks enough information to be considered as a concluded story, and it gives away too much info to be eligible for being called an open-ended movie.
If we place movies like Coherence, The Descent and Cube at the better end of "Mazey Universe" spectrum, then, as we pass Cabin in the Woods and 1408, we are moving towards the gray area. Until we get to films like The Signal and In the Tall Grass which belong to the lower range. And that's where Vivarium belongs to. In this movie humans are facing cuckoo-like beings that abduct human couples (instead of placing their children in their nest) and take them to the nest of their own. Apparently, these strange entities do not leave their offspring to fend for themselves and they provide them with enough education through a weird TV channel and a book with another-worldly alphabets. Now the question is that if these creatures are intelligent enough to create such a nest, why do they need humans to raise their children? And do these infants worth being raised when the results are Martins who look and who is destined to die behind a lousy desk of lousy real estate office.