I am going to take a stab at reviewing this movie using SPOILERS. First-off, the viewer is hooked and captured at some point and goes along willingly wanting answers to the obvious questions presented. It becomes a chore after a while when those answers don't come readily & willingly. It causes the viewer to have to solve the puzzle of what is presented. I wouldn't mind much if I succeeded and I tried to see if anyone else did (reviews) but alas, other viewers were left without closure as well. The obvious clue to this movie is found in the opening sequences of watching birds practicing surviving in a nest of newborns and how one goes to great lengths and succeeds to do so. This is real nature activity. The movie mirrors that. An alien or parasitic life-form is in need of someone to raise their young for their reasons and purposes. To do this, they recruit unsuspecting human beings to raise their young within a manufactured setting that captures humans using a brand-new house as bait. It is interesting to note that at no time is a human forced to visit or purchase a home in this tract. In fact, one must agree to go there willingly for this to work is what we learn. The raising of the child is made easier by the intruder lifeform imitating a human at birth and during their growing years unto adult hood. Two things that remain interesting are: 1. How the TV is only viewable (makes sense) by the lifeform and 2. The book it (?) brings home showing the relationship and purpose along with details useful to the alien (?) with the human babysitters if you will. I believe the TV/book gives the "alien" it's true identity and purpose and what really impacts the viewer is that this alien has no great purpose or function but to survive and reproduce itself using what works. I got the feeling that the humans could influence a change in this behavior if they fully committed to the alien's growth but instead, are put-off (shocked) by the whole premise. Perhaps that's where the answers are i.e., how these two species can work together if the humans fully grasp the aliens and take charge of their growth and meaning. But that would not guarantee a happy life for the humans and perhaps at some point lead to their destruction too. Until there is a break-through in this ongoing-repeating process of enticing humans to raise alien young by either side, one just witnesses an existence instead of truly living of life by both humans & whatever this thing is. That's as far as I got. I like movies that come on this way but, if there is no reward (closure) to the viewer in the end, then we may have gone overboard and too far-out of the entertainment realms. Something was successful here however. The proof? This review! Worth a watch.
Review of Vivarium
