This is like a stop-motion version of Black Mirror, but it's about home instead of technology. Widely creative. I loved it.
It was going somewhere until it wasn't
Not sure what I just watched, but it was definitely an experience.
The animation was wildly creative yet bizarre. The plots, well....come to your own conclusions. Mildly depressing, comical, and thought provoking. Seems that there is supposed to be some deeper meaning or allegory but I didn't get it.
All in all, worth a watch if you like something different.
The point was announced at the world economic forum by Klaus Schwab: "Have no property and be happy."
Far from perfect but visually VERY attracting.
I thought there would be a connection between the stories though, or maybe I missed it.
The 1st story was slightly cliché, because was the ‘spooky laughter’ – as the caption was phrased – of Doctor Vanchoenbeck necessary? Additionally, none of why nor how the personalities of the parents became different was explained, and the rationale of any of this was not apparent to me.
However, the 2nd story was humourous, and what the story conveyed was evident and potentially impressive.
The 3rd story was certainly as unique as the previous 2 stories, yet not much occurred during presentation of it, and the videography and cessation of it were worse than I expected them to be.
Ultimately, this was unique and I am consequently glad that it was created, but all of the evident skill of the creators causes me to wonder why some of it was not improved. Consequently, I intend not to recommend this.
Captivating atmosphere and impressive stop motion technique, but it could have been so much more. The first story has the best atmosphere, the second has the creepiest ending, and the third has the most reassuring message. I smell some kind of anti-capitalist, anti-materialist message, but honestly, these are only three drafts more than three fully-developed tales (with the possible exception of the second episode).
the only good thing about was the song playing during the credits
What. The. Actual. H**. Did. I. Just. Watch.
:heart: x7
This was a very interesting watch. Two of the three stories are really sad and depressing and the third is slightly more uplifting. Definitely worth a look
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
While the movie does focus on houses and its central focus, but I can't help and think that the house represent obsession.
In the first part of the anthology we see parents become obsessed, and in a hypnotised by the house. They suddenly gain this huge and expensive house, and it's all they can think about, forgetting their own children. This obsession and greed drives them to a point of suicide, it's at least how i saw it. Leaving their two young children on their own, a really depressing end.
The second part we see this character renovate a house, and talk how great it's gonna be. Then we get some more insight, that he is largely in debt and that his girlfriend he constantly calls and makes promises what he will do once he sells it, is actually his dentist. He is obsessed with money and the idea that this will go really easy, that he slowly goes insane once he start seeing an increased amount of cockroaches. I'm not quite sure what they are supposed to represent, but they clearly impact the character so much he starts hallucinating because of them. In the end he doesn't sell the house, some couple move in and bring their whole family there and start to destroy the house, with our main character included as at this point in the film he has gone completely insane.
This part stuck out to me the most, I don't know why either. Just seeing this character lose it himself more and more, because he invested all of his savings into this house was really jarring, it might not be the best word to describe it but it's best I got.
The last of part of this anthology was my least favourite. The main character of this part had ambitious to make her dream house, and when the flood happened well everyone moved out and went to somewhere better. But she never gave up on her dream, even though she should have because it was slowly destroying her. Throughout the movie we see her push everyone away until the very last moments where the flood is rising, and the water is getting into the house, it's when she realises she needs to move on. And she does she lets go of her dream and follows her friends, but in my opinion I think that she should have gone without the house. For some context the house turned into a boat, personally I see this as a momentary solution. The house, the obsession is still there, and she can return to it in any moment.
I don't quite get the second story, but I enjoyed it overall.
Unique. Thoroughly enjoyed these three shorts looking at the absurdities we impress upon ourselves as adults around owning this "pile of bricks" as they put it in the credits :rofl:
Self-righteous and each part is about 3-5x longer than it should have been. Good basic ideas, interesting techniques, but disappointing overall.
Such bizarre, dark stories. I’m glad the last one at least had a more positive, freeing outlook.
The stop motion animation is hard. It is a lot of painstaking effort of tremendous patience. Here the technique is used to tell us the tale of a single house across ages. The house is the common element among all three tales, but they still appear to be very disjointed tales. The house as a character never comes up to cement the relationship between these tales.
Like a Dark Mirror in the foyer.
Excellent animation but I found the disparate stories distracting. It felt like the storeys but not in the same building.
Yet another empty and boring production from Netflix, slow as hell, where very little happens, and with that annoying "atmosphere" background music. Not terrible due to the quite interesting animation style.
Review by Lamba94BlockedParent2022-02-09T10:44:26Z— updated 2022-02-10T14:17:46Z
Three stories that tell anxieties, obsessions and terrors about the relationship we have with the houses that we live in spite of ourselves.
The anxiety of the social status that our home symbolizes, which affects us only as adults, so we are willing to make a pact with the devil by sacrificing everything that has an emotional value for us and that tells who we are and where we come from replacing it with what has a recognizable value also by others, only by others, a purely materialistic value conceived as luxury for its own sake, a doll's house in which we force ourselves to live, until the loss of our authentic identity cuts off the bond with our closer affections and transforms us into part of the furniture as beings devoid of soul and meaning.
The obsession with success that makes us neglect taking care of ourselves in view of the goal, where the house we live in is a mirror and a metaphor of the mind we live in, both infested with parasites that feed on our life sending it upstream and making us slowly slip into madness because of our not remedying it systematically in time but moving forward by putting superficial patches that hide the discomfort that lurks beneath the surface.
The terror of becoming aware that it is time to turn the page, abandoning the idea of fulfilling the dream that has always haunted us and on which we fossilized and then marched, despite the fact that it is now evident to all those around us its impracticability. Terror that we can only overcome by accepting the surrounding reality that inexorably hampers (indeed, floods) our very hope at the foundations, making us realize that the building we have inhabited so far was not a real home for us but only a crossing of walls, inexorably discovered by a wallpaper that we would like would it to transform them into our house but that the surrounding world continues to detach from the walls, revealing the truth that we repudiate at all costs. Because our real home has always been the family bond that binds us to our friends who are housemates of our obsession, to whom until now we barely paid attention, distracted as we were by our futile intent, but who have remained close to us nevertheless, and with whom we will be able to start the journey into the uncertainty of the future towards a new home that will welcome us all. By realizing this, our obsession will turn into a healed trauma that will accompany us in the fog towards a new balance, giving us awareness of who we are and why we are back on the road.
An anthological film that exploits the setting of a house, probably cursed and inhabited in three different historical periods, the Victorian age, contemporaneity and the near future devastated by the imminent climatic catastrophe. Despite being a small manual on how to tell a horror story, based on the visual anticipation of disquiet and the slow growth of tension until the final climax, the first episode is the weakest of the trio because it is narrated by a character's pov not really involved in the choices that determine the plot but which she is only witnessing to, so that when it ends it seems that there is still something to say about this character or rather that this is a prelude to her personal story. The other two episodes are instead more successful, more centered around their characters, with the central one truly Kafkyan and surreal and the third more thoughtful and onhiric.
Animated in a technically stunning stop-motion, photographed even better with cuts of light that simulate the depth of field of open spaces, and with an attention to detail of the interiors that give credibility to the image enough to make you believe, especially in some moments of the second episode, of not looking at models but real live images, when this film ends you are left with the desire for other stories so well done.