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Just rows of anodyne residences they cant manage to escape, a prefab suburban wasteland.
Gemma and Tom get in their car to leave but every turn just leads them back to Number 9.
As Toms health declines, he starts digging a huge hole in the front yard.
(Note to self: Try stress digging in the front yard tomorrow?)
Tell me about how you ramped up the claustrophobia and monotony of going stir-crazy in your house.
Like, part of the color scheme is an experiment in anxiety with the kind of minty greens.
Taken out of nature, it completely takes on a very toxic quality.
Its like its poisonous and also quite institutional, like a hospital or a school or something like that.
Hows that for you?Its so weird.
Jesses character develops a mysterious cough, an illness.
They even get all their stuff just delivered to them in packages like everybodys doing now.
The parallels are just kind of creepy.
Like, Oh my God, you cant touch your nose and then you grab something in the store!
But its amazing to see how people now have accepted things within a week.
So for these guys in the film, I guess they would accept their strange reality quite quickly.
Its actually seems more plausible.
Is that more rapid acceptance a positive or a negative, do you think?
In a way, its an immediate conditioning to see others as a threat.I dont know.
We kind of need a little bit of contact.
It did feel like something was going to break one way or the other.
It kind of had to in some ways.
I watchedThe Platforma couple of days ago, and thats sort of in the same world.
You know, its like the greed from the top and the disparity between the rich and the poor.
