This is a very thoughtful film. The cuckoo chick pushing the rival chicks out of the nest is an analogy for the overt plot of the film. At another level it's a film about connection and sense of purpose; how empty our lives are without meaningful connections and relationships, about how parenting is not just an act of care, rather an act of connection. Each of the protagonists react differently to the alien in the nest: a violent visceral rejection and a search for escape, or an attempt at connection and meaning. Both, in the end, are futile, and leave us with a sense of emptiness. It's nature, sometimes it is mean.
This is well cast, well acted, and has a great set. The minimalism only intensifies the anomie.
This is well cast, well acted, and has a great set. The minimalism only intensifies the anomie.
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