A vivarium (Latin, literally for "place of life") is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research.
A young couple planning to get married are looking at possible homes. They are Imogen Poots as Gemma and Jesse Eisenberg as Tom. When the agent asks them to follow in their own car, he takes them to unit number 9, in a strange neighborhood where every house looks identical, as far as one can see. Not long afterwards the agent disappears, his car is gone. The couple attempt to drive home but find they are unable to get out of the subdivision, no matter what they try, they just keep coming back to number 9. Plus there is no cell phone signal.
The movie begins with a sequence showing how a cuckoo bird will lay its egg into the nest of a different species, as the hatched cuckoo grows it manages to push out any other eggs and baby birds, fooling the adult birds to nurture this young intruder. That is shown because it is the theme of this story, not with a bird but with a newborn baby boy they find in a box outside their front door. What happens after that are a series of horrors, the note says they can only be allowed to leave after they successfully raise the young boy that grows up very, very fast.
My wife and I watched the movie on Amazon streaming, I must admit it held our attention for the whole 90 minutes. We had never watched anything quite like it. I'm not sure there is any particular message here because in the end it is science fiction but anyone open to experimental themes would probably not regret the time spent watching it.
A young couple planning to get married are looking at possible homes. They are Imogen Poots as Gemma and Jesse Eisenberg as Tom. When the agent asks them to follow in their own car, he takes them to unit number 9, in a strange neighborhood where every house looks identical, as far as one can see. Not long afterwards the agent disappears, his car is gone. The couple attempt to drive home but find they are unable to get out of the subdivision, no matter what they try, they just keep coming back to number 9. Plus there is no cell phone signal.
The movie begins with a sequence showing how a cuckoo bird will lay its egg into the nest of a different species, as the hatched cuckoo grows it manages to push out any other eggs and baby birds, fooling the adult birds to nurture this young intruder. That is shown because it is the theme of this story, not with a bird but with a newborn baby boy they find in a box outside their front door. What happens after that are a series of horrors, the note says they can only be allowed to leave after they successfully raise the young boy that grows up very, very fast.
My wife and I watched the movie on Amazon streaming, I must admit it held our attention for the whole 90 minutes. We had never watched anything quite like it. I'm not sure there is any particular message here because in the end it is science fiction but anyone open to experimental themes would probably not regret the time spent watching it.