Vivarium Boy

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Vivarium boy. A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth like neighborhood of identical houses. Directed by lorcan finnegan. The boy then ends up at the same agency martin was at in the beginning but this time martin s older and dying.

The alien race in vivarium ages very rapidly. This is a phenomenon in nature known as brood parasitism in which some birds will lay their eggs in a stranger s nest. When 98 days old the boy already looked like a seven year old child and after one year he already looked like a fully grown human.

The film had its world premiere at the cannes film festival on 18 may 2019. Vivarium director lorcan finnegan answers all of our burning questions about how exactly yonder martin and the boy operate. Vivarium is the full length feature film version of that original idea.

It premiered last year at the cannes film festival and made its way around the festival circuit before being picked up for. An international co production between ireland denmark and belgium the film stars imogen poots and jesse eisenberg. When he perishes the boy bags him and removes the body taking his nametag to confirm the aliens scheme.

Let us know what you think in the comments below. Though it s never made explicit in vivarium s ending the most obvious interpretation of yonder and the strange boy that tom and gemma are forced to raise is an alien abduction story the film opens with a shot of a newly hatched cuckoo pushing other baby birds out of the nest. They masquerade as agents kidnap couples or parents then force them to help the other boys get out into society.

A neighborhood populated by an endless sprawl of homes of the exact same size and. It was released in ireland on 27 march 2020 by vertigo releasing. With imogen poots danielle ryan molly mccann jesse eisenberg.