The couple’s purgatory in “Vivarium” isn’t harrowing because it gets worse and worse, but because it stays relentlessly the same
WHETHER IT IS the best film to watch at the moment, or the worst, “Vivarium” is all about the nightmare of being stuck in a house with your family. At no point does this high-concept sci-fi mystery suggest the situation might have a single positive aspect, so the only consolation that self-isolators and social-distancers can take is that their own internment probably isn’t quite as grim as that endured by the characters.
Indeed, it is so difficult that when Gemma and Tom meet a creepily robotic estate agent , they don’t flee in alarm, but drive with him to Yonder, a brand new suburban development of identical two-storey houses. They know immediately that it isn’t for them—not just because it is so obnoxiously drab, but because it has no trees or wildlife, and no planes overhead, just candyfloss clouds which look as if they have been painted onto blue canvas.
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Garret Shanley, “Vivarium” echoes David Lynch’s films in its crisp surrealism, and David Cronenberg’s in one scene of body horror. It also recalls the fake town where Jim Carrey’s unwitting reality-television star grew up in “The Truman Show”, and the time loop which trapped Bill Murray’s weatherman in “Groundhog Day”.
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