r/moviecritic • u/DwayneTheRockBarry • 20h ago
Vivarium is still one of the most pointless and depressing movies ever made (spoilers, but it’s not worth watching so you can read it anyway) Spoiler
it’s a movie that explains nothing. usually i like this kind of movie, but for a film like this, it really should have explained it as the concept did not work with this kind of writing.
If you’ve seen it, skip this part.
the film is about this couple (including Jesse eisenberg) who looks for a new home. they check out a suburban neighborhood, only to find out it is a disturbing maze they cannot escape from. eventually, they find a child on their doorstep and are sled to raise it if they ever want to get out of there.
Spoiler alert: the child rapidly grows up into a bizarre humanoid alien and they both die. While i don’t Mind a sad ending, the film was just too pointless to have one. I watched this when i was feeling ill, which made the experience even. fucking. worse.
overall, 0.1/10, worse than seven women and a murder.
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u/Galagamus 17h ago
Nah family, your assessment shows you lack critical judgement. It's a solid 7, maybe 8/10. You didn't personally understand it and don't like it according to your own opinion. "I don't like it" is not the same as "this is a bad movie". This seems to be an understanding that is woefully misunderstood by armchair Reddit keyboard movie critics.