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Vivarium
2019 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
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> Throw in a small cafe, local pub, and corner store, and that looks like a really nice little spot.
Where? As in, where would you "throw" them? The buildings don't have space. There's nothing for a mile or more. This is a drive-in only development. (The road is called Brotherhood Way because there's nothing on it but churches and temples. Until they built this.)
> Give it 30-50 years and people will have painted them different colors, and it won’t look like a retirement home
It's really creepy there. It's hard to convey, even google street view doesn't give you the full effect. Did you watch that movie "Vivarium"? It's the shape of the place. The way it's just houses with no integration with the world outside themselves or even with each other. Packed together tightly, so tall that they block the sun, no space to expand. The park next door might as well be a million miles away. They are lockers for people, not homes.
2022 - Kimi, After Yang, Crimes of the Future, White Noise, Official Competition, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tar, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
2021 - Nightmare Alley, The Card Counter, Zola, The French Dispatch, Come True, Don't Look Up, I Care A Lot,
2020 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Mank, The Sound of Metal, Possessor, His House
2019 - Climax, Uncut Gems, Parasite, Vivarium, First Cow
2018 - The Clovehitch Killer, Prospect, Mute, Anon, Mandy, The House That Jack Built, Cam, Sorry to Bother You
2018 had a glut of Netflix sci-fi B-movies that I think are very solidly good if not so great. I think they're underrated so I included them. I might have also messed up on the years.
These are all films I've seen. There are many others that I suspect are even better that I haven't seen.
Why is no one questioning whether this is real?
Reddit is full of far-fetched stories like this that ultimately turn up to be completely fabricated (obviously for the purpose of internet points). While this one isn't ridiculously far-fetched, it's definitely borderline.
Also, the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was the movie Vivarium [1], where one of the main characters does almost exactly this. It sounds like the author watched that movie, modified it slightly, and posted it to /r/advice.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406
> there is no way to determine an actual wiring of a processor from the level of code, or even that there is a processor.
Unless someone explicitly leaves a loophole - for debugging or other purposes. There is a nice scene in the recent movie Vivarium about this.
_Idiocracy_ of course. Most prescient movie ever.
And maybe the ridiculous Jesse Eisenberg movie I saw last night, _Vivarium_. It changed my opinion on how reasonably good actors can do horrible movies, obviously not for the money because there isn't going to be any.