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This is a very well written and well directed horror movie, thoroughly engaging from beginning to end. The audience freaked out when the director meant for them to, and laughed when the director meant them to.
This is the third great horror I've seen this year, the others being The Substance and Together (both body horrors) being the others.
Weapons is worth the money to see it at the theater.
This is the third great horror I've seen this year, the others being The Substance and Together (both body horrors) being the others.
Weapons is worth the money to see it at the theater.
Context: I am 60+ now, degreed and experienced in cinema, with three Generation "Z" boys. So this movie is not for me, it's for them. I only give it 6-stars because it misfits my own entertainment needs. I expect teenagers and young adults who were tweens and teens in 2000-2010 will connect with this much better.
That being said, I would describe this as being a hyper-paced satire that pretends to be about horror but is really about our modern culture, especially that which Gen-Z must suffer through.
The Ick, being a familiar but mostly ignored and unexplained creature that suddenly becomes destructive, is a METAPHOR.
It represents cultural rot, something that grows everywhere and we complacently ignore it until it becomes antagonizing, and many of us continue to try ignoring it, or minimizing it, to our demise.
Once you watch this movie with those lenses it begins to make more sense. Listen carefully to the dialog and you'll hear the indoctrination of critical theory (identity politics and oppression narratives), postmodernism (nihilism), postcolonialism (anti-settler narratives), and capitalism vs socialism debates. All of it is not to preach any of these, but to make fun of it. The Ick not one of these things or the other, it's the ignorance, the complacency, the intolerance, and the polarization of these variant invasive philosophies.
You could even frame the Ick as poststructuralism - which is best imagined as a culture-bomb - wherein all of these other ostentatious disciplines are its components.
In effect, the movie is a lot smarter than it appears, but if you are older than Gen-Z and you are not aware of its goals, then it's look completely dumb and a waste of your time. As I say, if that describes you, it wasn't made for you. It was made for the kids who grew up in our mess.
I cannot say its humor made me laugh a lot, but it delivered some chuckles - it's wit is dry and fast so you have to keep up.
I do think that the editing is very choppy though, and doesn't do it service. Had this been smoothed out a little it would have been more palatable.
That being said, I would describe this as being a hyper-paced satire that pretends to be about horror but is really about our modern culture, especially that which Gen-Z must suffer through.
The Ick, being a familiar but mostly ignored and unexplained creature that suddenly becomes destructive, is a METAPHOR.
It represents cultural rot, something that grows everywhere and we complacently ignore it until it becomes antagonizing, and many of us continue to try ignoring it, or minimizing it, to our demise.
Once you watch this movie with those lenses it begins to make more sense. Listen carefully to the dialog and you'll hear the indoctrination of critical theory (identity politics and oppression narratives), postmodernism (nihilism), postcolonialism (anti-settler narratives), and capitalism vs socialism debates. All of it is not to preach any of these, but to make fun of it. The Ick not one of these things or the other, it's the ignorance, the complacency, the intolerance, and the polarization of these variant invasive philosophies.
You could even frame the Ick as poststructuralism - which is best imagined as a culture-bomb - wherein all of these other ostentatious disciplines are its components.
In effect, the movie is a lot smarter than it appears, but if you are older than Gen-Z and you are not aware of its goals, then it's look completely dumb and a waste of your time. As I say, if that describes you, it wasn't made for you. It was made for the kids who grew up in our mess.
I cannot say its humor made me laugh a lot, but it delivered some chuckles - it's wit is dry and fast so you have to keep up.
I do think that the editing is very choppy though, and doesn't do it service. Had this been smoothed out a little it would have been more palatable.
Movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Haunting, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Mist, Night of the Living Dead, The Blair Witch Project, The Wicker Man, Hereditary, The Ninth Gate, and Vivarium belong to a class of horror some people have nicknamed BleakCore, which is as good a name as any.
Unlike the more classic Catharsis horrors such as Jaws, Alien, Aliens, Tremors, Poltergeist, or The Lost Boys, the key feature of BleakCore is a dire, hopeless ending, subverting the expectation of a triumph or payoff. In between these two extremes are Bittersweet frameworks, wherein the hero's death defeats the evil, such as with The Exorcist or An American Werewolf in London.
Vivarium is a solid BleakCore nightmare that intends to destabilize your sense of reality and bury its answers instead of reveal them. Other movies that tap this flavor of mild surrealistic ambiguity include Under the Skin, Videodrome, Cube, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive (or just about any movie by David Lynch).
Vivarium is therefore a cocktail of these two forms of mood horror that only appeals to a niche. I belong to that niche.
What I enjoy about the film is the way that its menace (we never quite learn what it really is) uses what it thinks attracts humans but doesn't quite get it right. It's a clinical interpretation of human aspirations, perhaps suggesting that our desires are shallow and meaningless; a psychological bait-and-trap we are incapable of escaping.
If that is your kind of movie, I recommend it! I've watched Vivarium three times now, and despite some scenes are annoying (as they are intended to be), I find it to be compelling fun.
Unlike the more classic Catharsis horrors such as Jaws, Alien, Aliens, Tremors, Poltergeist, or The Lost Boys, the key feature of BleakCore is a dire, hopeless ending, subverting the expectation of a triumph or payoff. In between these two extremes are Bittersweet frameworks, wherein the hero's death defeats the evil, such as with The Exorcist or An American Werewolf in London.
Vivarium is a solid BleakCore nightmare that intends to destabilize your sense of reality and bury its answers instead of reveal them. Other movies that tap this flavor of mild surrealistic ambiguity include Under the Skin, Videodrome, Cube, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive (or just about any movie by David Lynch).
Vivarium is therefore a cocktail of these two forms of mood horror that only appeals to a niche. I belong to that niche.
What I enjoy about the film is the way that its menace (we never quite learn what it really is) uses what it thinks attracts humans but doesn't quite get it right. It's a clinical interpretation of human aspirations, perhaps suggesting that our desires are shallow and meaningless; a psychological bait-and-trap we are incapable of escaping.
If that is your kind of movie, I recommend it! I've watched Vivarium three times now, and despite some scenes are annoying (as they are intended to be), I find it to be compelling fun.
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