Yeah, don't bother. This was a heaping pile of trash. They tried so hard to be clever. But that is all it was, a try, but definitely did not deliver. This is an artsy couple of short stories that people with simple minds can watch and say they watched an artsy show. That is all this is.
There will be a lot of people who agree with you and a lot who disagree Daniel! It's a very subjective film from the public response thus far! Thank you for your input though and for checking out the video :)
I was really hoping they would've gone deeper with that. His speech saying that Van Schoonbeek gives him a script to read and that he's constantly changing the house, it felt like there was a lot more there that wasn't being said. A POV from Mr. Thomas's perspective would've been really interesting
just imagine him turning round and going “hello jackie” and it solves it 😹 nah but seriously, mark heap’s voice was a perfect choice for this. absolutely unhinged
@@UnleashTheGhouls 11:00 i didn't understand at first either about the purpose of the strange couple invading the house but in the bathroom scene I saw something that really shocked an chilled my back. The bodies of the strange rat couple represent the fur beetles infecting the house. It explains why the relatives have extra limbs when they're clapping the Developer home. Since the do physical represent the insects the behave wildly eating away the house. And I think I remember on of the strange couple saying that "they were here before before you"??
The House is about home ownership in the midst of uncertain times. There's themes of materialism, recession and the impending climate crisis. People look down on vermin and other creatures, like we are so very different from everything else. This emphasized by the way mice are depicted as humans looking down on insects. However insects are the ones living and enjoying their home to the fullest. People get so wrapped up in owning a home that they often lose sight of the purpose of a home. At the expense of caring for the children in the first story, honesty and decency in the second story and finally full on denial in the third. For all of our advanced technology and customs, in the end we are all subject to forces beyond our control.
There’s another interesting thing to note, throughout each story from one to the other has a reference to the previous story, the first story, Mabel is playing with two mice in her doll house, In the second story the mice who show up to the Developers open house when he shows it off, there’s a mouse couple with one holding a baby mouse, and their daughter running around. When the baby mouse starts crying the mother says “shush Isobel” the same name of the baby in the previous story, and the family matches up with the mother, father, older daughter, and newborn. Not to mention the Developer says he lives on Von Schoonbeek street. The name of the strange maybe devil creator of the house in the first story. In the third story it’s far more subtle with just a beetle being seen skittering across a floorboard that Rosa walks past. No one really talks about these interesting connections between all the stories.
The weird couple in the second story IS the bugs. They’re the exact same silhouette as the dancing bugs, and you can tell their arms and feet don’t move in tandem. Also the rat family at the end has four hands when they were clapping. The house in 2 represents the garrish painted up lie the rat is trying to live, and ends with it collapsing into the reality of his true self. In fact the true/lie dichotomy is reflected in the fact that every inferred aspect of the rat turns out to be a lie ( the girl, the quality house, the bank excuses) and everything the bug couple says is true (they were interested in the house… and its furnishings). 1 was a matroyshka wealth trap: the ancient expensive bureau in the poor house in the large house that is constantly added to because the family is never rich enough, whatever they have, and the children/family is forgotten in the process. The couple eventually ends up as decor : most people who work their whole lives end up as pictures on the wall anyway. The 3rd one was just ‘the house is not a home’ : the lost tenants representing the people Rosa lost in her pursuit of a beautiful house-and-landlord lifestyle she’s got it mind. Jen says, and Rosa agrees, that she will end up with a beautiful house with no tenants: the best of lives. The seminal moment is in the montage, where she sees that her perception of the tenants as leeches is very close to another perspective: that they could have been friends she enjoyed her life with, if she’ll only let go of her proper dreams.
I agree with a lot of this but a detail i noticed was that you said the girl in your description of 2 but it was confirmed his dentist was in fact a male. Just a detail I noticed, don't mean to critique
First story: If you care about materials too much, you'd lose yourself in them. You will attach your whole sense of self in materials and they will fully consume you. Second story: When the contractor mouse first saw a couple bugs crawling into the wall, he didn't fix the issue properly. He just put some glue in the wall, which allowed the bugs to reproduce inside the wall and eventually destroy the entire house. At the end, the mice all live and crawl around the house just like cockroaches. So, my explanation: if you don't fix small issues, they will build up, causing more issues and take over your entire life. Third story: sometimes it takes losing everything (friends, house, money, plans) for someone to let go and open a new chapter of life.
But in addition to all of this there are shitloads of double meanings too! First thing you ever see when the movie starts is illuminati checkerboard if you didnt realize this for example
best explanation so far. All of the things we saw in this movie are real issues faced in real life. I dont think it has anything to do with the mystic explanations such as curse or the devil, these are far too basic to explain the real details here.
To me the third story was the one that impacted me the most. When I was watching Rosa sail away I got teary eyed. I wasn't really sure why at first it was so impactful for me but, like the highlighted comment says, I think the story is about moving on and embracing change. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck with a person, a mindset or a lifestyle that ends up consuming us. Other people warn us but we don't realise how bad it's getting and how bad it can eventually get. Rosa finally opens her eyes to her situation when the people she cares about leave her and she's completely alone. Watching her sail away towards a new future, a new life, was extremely hopeful for me, having gone through a lot of rough patches in my life and having to sail away from them on my own
My personal interpretation First story: The father is an alcoholic and a gambler. The fire he's constantly trying to light up is his addictions. He sells (burns) expensive furniture, and he's only able to light up the fire when he burns the precious dollhouse and the most expensive cabinet. The mother gets stuck in sewing to distract herself from the misery. She gets "sucked in" by her work to drown her sorrow. In this case, the evil spirit is the gambling. The gambling promises luxury, good things, devouring the parents in a loop made of distractions. As for the butler/ attorney, I think it could be a simple metaphor for another victim of gambling/ alcohol, just like the workers. The children are cast aside from their parents' misery but at the same time they are swallowed by it. Their parents are addicted to work/ gambling and ignore both of them until their problems destroy their life (the house burning to the ground) Their children eventually get away because they don't fall into their parents' addictions. Second story: It's all about pretending to be someone else/ hide the dust under the rough. At the beginning we are seeing dumpsters filled with garbage and the protagonist lives in a basement, signs that can be associated with vermins. We see him trying to get the bugs killed, going crazy, making the house a royal palace. But when he finally gets what he wants, he gets rejected. His partner does not exist, the clients don't care about anything (the clients are MICE, which are usually considered cuter than rats). But most importantly..he's cherished and considered only by the mices who act like bugs and goes to the hospital because of HIS OWN POISON. At the end we see him "feasting" with the bug-rats, much like an infestation. He's finally happy because he's not pretending to be someone else. He finally accepted that he is a rat. A vermin, usually considered a parasite, much like the bugs. Third story: Change is beautiful. The protagonist is stuck in that house. She wants to make it beautiful, to attract people in it. But she seems to fail all the time. And while her attention is fixated on the house, she does not notice the flood approaching. Her housemates are aware of the flood and constantly warn her about it. They get ready for it. At the end the cat is alone. But why tho? She didn't move on. The flood is adulthood/ future. She keeps denying it because the house is safe, past is safe, past is secure and known. Future is uncertain, much like the sea. And while her friends move on with their lives (the boats) she gets stuck there. And only when a person who's not in her circle builds her a boat, she's able to move. What does that mean? The boat is MADE WITH THE HOUSE. She's finally able to move on with her life without forgetting her past, thanks to someone who showed her the way. In this case, the house could also be associated with trauma or loss, and the sciaman cat with a terapist. ✨✨✨✨
For the second story. I think a lot of people are thinking too literally about the "rats" that wont leave the developer's home. We know he had formed this delusional relationship he fabricated with his dentist. The family of rodents are the developer's delusional representation of the bug infestation in the home. They're his found family and the house ultimately is as much theirs as it is his. In the end, the bugs destroy the home by literally eating the carpeting and natural insulation. This was a great three part story about the rejection of materialism and the focus on the importance of human connection, family, and personal joy.
agreed and I think its confirmed by his call to the police in which he has a hard time explaining what the situation is and the fact that they never end up helping him
Pretty literal interpretation there. I'm going to give it a shot. I think the thesis statement of the show is stated in end credits song. Its a series of short stories that are meant to be allegorical of people's relationships with the house itself. Story one I think is probably the most obvious. Its a story from the perspective of a child where she watches her parents be burdened by the expectations of their elders. They end up moving to a house on a hill which I am interpreting to be a reference to the "City Upon a Hill" which is a phrase dating back a long ways in Christian culture. Specifically the Sermon on the Mount. In American culture this becomes something of a political philosophy for American Exceptionalism. Its a very British show but I think it can be interpreted in a similar way, minus the Americanism. The family desires to be observed. Observed by their family as that shining beacon and model on which others can model themselves. The problem is that the house is always changing. Its never finished. The children become lost in it. The mother ends up working herself ragged which seems metaphor for living up to standards that are never complete. The father keeps the light, the Shining part of the Shining City Upon the Hill, lit by burning his past self. More than that even. Not just his own things but the family inheritance as well. Come the end, the mother and father have become so absorbed by the house they are consumed by it. Becoming accessories to it instead of people. In the end, this City Upon the Hill doesn't shine. It burns. The only one looking up to the house is their daughters who are forced to watch it be consumed. Chapter two is a bit trickier for me to interpret. It makes it explicitly clear that the Developer is doing his damnedest to cut every corner he can manage to save money bringing this home up to par. He fires his construction crew, fills in the floor molding with caulk and burns all the trash in the backyard. We can infer that this isn't his home. Its just a house that he has purchased as an asset to make a profit from. We are led to believe that he's doing this to fund his life and his human connections . We spend most of the chapter believing he has someone given his phone conversations but the one-sidedness gives an off vibe. The real turning point of the movie isn't the realization that these bug shaped mice intend to stay. Its learning that the Developer has a para-social relationship with his dentist of all people. I think the Developer is using his work and his hustle to refurbish himself in the same way that he has refurbished the house. Superficially. Ignoring the foundational problems, putting on a fresh paint job and caulking up the holes in the facade. The family invited in symbolizing the rot present within already being exacerbated. In the end, the insect-like rodent people end up devouring the entire renovation. In tandem, the entire persona the Developer has cultivated is stripped away. We don't know who he was before his hustle so he regresses to the only other thing we know him to be. A rat. Chapter three is probably the most simple. It very much feels like a Covid inspired story. It can very easily be summed up as a woman being a slave to her own intended life path while she desperately ignores the fact that the world cannot support what she wanted her life to be anymore. The house is the future she wanted that is no longer attainable. The tenants being the personal relationships she has cultivated. Most have left. She has been unable to keep them. The chapter is all about the few people she has left being unable to maintain their relationship to her while she continues to toil away at an untenable dream. She doesn't know who she would be without the house and her pursuit in perfecting it. The people in her life are ready to move on from her. The moral ends up being that she may not be able to see where she is going but she must move on or she will drown. Instead of giving herself to a future she has decided, she ends up leveraging the house she already has towards navigating a future she cannot predict.
I really like your interpretations! I really liked chapter 3 the most. I feel that it can have many interpretations. My first thoughts were that the flood could be a statement on global warming and the potential flooding that could occur from it. The other interpretation I had is that she is a spirit who cannot move on into the after life and her tenants are spirits who are getting ready to move on.
My super simple interpretation: 1- Don’t let materialism change who you are. 2- If you don’t face your problems when then arise, they will grow until they overwhelm you. 3- Sometimes letting go of what you want to hold onto the tightest will set you free.
I think you don't mentioned it but the house is the same in the three stories. Since it's foundations till Rosa moves along with it. For me it was cursed since the beginning because Mr. Van Schoonbeek is the devil, so every story would be wrong in one point, that's why the developer just went crazy. It would be interesting to see more stories in between with different owners and stories. More in the future the house belongs to Rosa somehow the curse it's done when she leaves, because in story 1 Mr. Thomas mentioned something about the house location, so now that the house moved, it's a new beginning for it too.
you forgot a major detail about the second story: the large mice are shaped like the beetles! the long ones like the larvae and the smaller ones like the beetle.
When I saw the last short, I immediately thought- this is about grief. Personally? I don't see many people in the comments mentioning the photo of Rosa's family in the last short, so I thought I'd bring it up. That's why I think the last story is a metaphor for grief and moving on from loss and tragedy, explaining the cat's fixation and strange unwillingness to bring up the flood, a clearly devastating event. Which is why her friend carefully says " Rosa, why don't you talk about the flood? " Her parents in her photo likely died in the flood, causing her to fixate on controlling her surroundings and deny the consequences, a common coping mechanism of grief stricken people. She wants to make the house exactly how she pictures it, exactly how she ( and maybe even her parents ) intended it to be before the flood, denying that she will never have the chance. Accepting that your plans must come to a sudden stop, that something can never be again, something with that moral is always about grief somehow. - also, i like the detail that in this instance the house isn't an evil force, but the willingness to change it into something completely new made it something kind of beautiful and useful, really emphasizing how it really has no power over anyone, its nothing but a pile of bricks, as the credits song says. But the second short is interesting to me? Because it isn't as clear but at the same time it felt funnily... relatable. You see, I have executive dysfunction, and remaining organized and clean is a daily struggle without systemic aids. My daily routines are held together with duct tape. If you've ever heard the phrase " aren't you tired of being nice, don't you want to go apesh*t " that is the feral vibe I got from that ending, gross as it was. And I think it really was, in this instance, that the house was a metaphor for the self, and all the work to glamorize and touch up with modern and trendy details- and yet the sink isn't installed right and the drapes are too heavy for the bolt- is really a metaphor for this very tenuously held together man that-- like the house-- looks charming and fine on the outside, a little nervous perhaps but fine, but is actually moments away from completely regressing into disheveled insanity. Even before he goes full rat, look at how heart broken he was when he realized they weren't buying the house and his dentist didn't want to be called 'darling'. But still, the disheveled life in its own unpleasant and bittersweet way, might actually be more ideal than the fake pleasantness of his decorations and his made up dentist friend. You'll also notice he takes off all his "contractor" gear, especially throwing his kind of cheesy 'managerial type' ear piece, before the insane bug dance kicked in? and the fact that his pest control poison poisoned him being the direct metaphor for his attempt to clean and perfect himself literally harming him. The sheer irony of a rat calling a bug vermin is very prominent. I mean, the normal rats who visited the house were incredibly messy as well, were they really much better? But what reads as so odd to me about that is that the story seems to necessitate them... accepting that you are painting trash gold. The trash being you. Which is just such an... interesting moral... but I just kinda enjoy it haha.
As another executive dysfunctional person sometimes, this 2nd story hit me the hardest and most unpleasant. 1st story was beautiful and interesting but I felt like I was watching a tale out of the Goosebumps series or Coraline, something whimsical and a simple moral about greed/not trusting strangers I seen a million times before. 2nd story though left me with a deep existential nausea, that still has not gone away and badly needed the 3rd story to soothe it. It had a very David Lynchia vibe, and brilliantly made something wildly uncomfortable and scary without any moment of gore or implied deaths. That's incredible talent to me. It struck a nerve for multiple personal reasons, but it especially reminded me of what you said, the whole "wouldn't it just be easier to stop pretending to be normal, give up and go full apesh*t"/let go of all your dreams and sanity and expectations of adulthood and just wallow upon the care of others and institutions totally supporting you, essentially, to live life a parasite. It's hard to know what to do with even a perfect adult plan, when your body or mind just doesn't work the same way it should, nor does knowing where you else will go in life if poverty or stress always seems inevitable, except down. It's the moral of the 3rd story I think, that we appreciate those around us who try to reach out, and have a support system to help us carry ourselves on, when we are not fine. 2nd tale's main unfortunately is so far gone, or so lecherously entitled, that he THINKS that he has that support system(in his dentist he stalks, his potential buyers) but really he has nobody, because he is shallow, pushy, and intrusive of privacy. The beetles might be like toxic friends or drugs/drug dealers who only further feed upon his madness and self delusions, and in a way metaphorically convince him that it is is easier to regress and give up.
The Second story been on my mind! It's so bizarre and disturbing at the end with him giving up his human side and going full rodent crawling back into a dark whole of his own house inside a oven. The music was chilling for that scene! smh
I think your missing the points of all of the 3 Movies in this setting... Which is really sad for your talent of cutting and voicing the video... All in one the movie 2, the two rodents where fromed like The Fur bugs itself, which wasn't even noted from your sight, which is kinda obvious to see that the two strange rodents where treating the house like the bugs at the beginning. The Developer of the hose turns then into what he already was. But I don't want to sound like a hater you have talent with the cutting and voicing so a like from me 🤔 keep it up.
I did mention that the Vermin at the end begin to infest the house and begin to take over it, just didn't liken it to the bugs! I think that The House is a brilliant series that has some great complexities and symbolism that will reward repeat viewings. This was more of a general breakdown of what happens in the series as well as some of my own personal ideas and theories based on only my first watch. Thank you for your feedback and for checking out the video! :) - Connor
Because they were the Fur Beetles he was trynna get rid of! The dude was really going insane, very trippy episode with lots of symbolism in it. It's my favorite one!
The developers insecurities about himself and the house are reflected in the insects. As a society we view such creatures as worthless and disgusting, as he silently views himself. The more he sinks further into self pity and isolation the more the roaches appear, thus culminating In the developer giving into his fears and accepting a reality where his fears finally consume him.
First off, I want to commend the creators for the hundreds possibly thousands of hours of work to create this polished, piece of stop-motion. Trust me, IT'S VERY TIME CONSUMING, most people would just quit. But I watched it and liked the creepy first one but it could've been creepier. To have a Mature rating I wish they went all out on the scaryness but they held back. No blood, killing or anything.
I totaly get your point but I personally don't think they held back at all.I prefer the more abstract direction the creators went with over the classical blood and death. That's just sortof overdone in my opinion
@@finnlaymoth2171 ok I see your point. It's really good in that sense. I love the art and creative aspect of it. The stories teach us a lesson about life.
Gore would be probably pointless. I think that the creators went for existential horror, wich is much more scary imo. Being burnt alive after having turned into their affictions is much scarrier than just being massacred as if they were innocent victims. This is the way that fables work.
Just finished watching the movie myself. I really liked your interpretations of all three stories. I found that using the house itself as a mechanism for the storytelling made for a very thought provoking set of tales. It feels as though the house (the building itself) becomes the manifestation of the current owner's inner self. The only time the house is seen in a truly positive light is when Rosa is finally able to let go of her past and move on into a brighter future. I felt the ending was a little anticlimactic compared to how the first short set up the house. However, I still think it was a fitting end to a very worthwhile movie.
I think what you’re missing is the overriding theme of all of these tales that centers around a house. Which is why they don’t explore each individual world in great detail or the “powers” of the benefactor or what exactly the name of the “developer” is or what happened to cause a great flooding in rosas story. A house is a very intimate place. You can define a house as warm and loving place - inviting and filled with good memories. Or put more simply a “home”. In contrast it can be a source of vanity or greed. It can be empty and hallow only filled of memories past some not always positive. It can take on a more sinister tone, being a place of fear and uncertainty. And in the most primal of aspects a place for shelter and safety. Each short story instead explores the different ways a person can be consumed with a house whether it be positive or negative and how intimate and life changing these events can be.
i think the second one is about the developers mental health as the bugs surround the house tearing him down as hes tryna make himself look nice and stylish on the outside hes got dark things on the inside as we see when he walks down the stairs we see bugs still there i also think the killer thing is a drug that is trying to help him cope with his mental health. also the rats that are ''interested in the house" are just using him which in real life its like people using u which tears u down. as to cope with this he takes an overdose which knocks him out and he ends up in the hospital. and when he goes home and everyones claping i think all the rats that are there are basically sinking him into his sadness and it turns him crazy and its to the point were he is basically trying to make himself not look appealing as the darkness consumes him he turns to the hole i think simbilising that he died and was moving onto the after life. we also see with the scene with the police when hes asking for help the police do nothing and thats how it is kinda like in the real world like the police dont care and i think with the dentist i think it was some coping mechanism to talk to someone since he has no one to talk to. gee this was long i hope u enjoyed reading this
I just realized something! In the beginning of the first story, Mabel is playing with her doll house and her dolls are the 2 main rodents from the second story. Then in the second story, when the 2 main rodents invite their family to the house, the tall one says to the rat "They used to live here you know"
Isobel baby in episode 1, episode 2 little baby rat also called Isobel. Coincidence or is she still affected by the curse , returning to the house in another life
I didn't realize it was the same house until I rewatched the 2nd story and some of the possessions from the 1st story like the sewing machine were thrown into the trashbin by the mouse contractor.
i watched this movie right before writing this comment. I was confused by the first two stories but was entertained none the less. But I especially loved the third story.
The whole movie is about materialism, consumerism, greed, and denial, and how those things can affect, change, and destroy, not only yourself, but the world aswell, the houses curse is one of greed, and it seeps out of the house, overtime affecting the whole world. We start as humans in a lush green world, living humbly, before materialism consumes the parents, they become enchanted by material things and thus lose themselves, they turn into literal objects. when humans die, rats eat the corpses, consumerism is in full swing, no longer green, it's now a vast metropolis during a hard financial time, the curse of the house has spread far and wide(our current time) and while rats may be smart, they also will consume anything, the desperation brought upon the developer causes him to not only have a mental break, but to engulf himself into consumerism, he buys gadgets to cover up his own short comings, instead of fixing the major problem of the insect infestation, consumerism eventually consumes him too, devolving the rats into mindless beings that can only consume, insects. The world is ending, it seems like the fat cats have eaten the rats but they're not fat anymore, the world is flooded, the downfall of the world caused by the curse of the house is upon us, only the house remains, and it still has a hold of at least 1 person, Rosa, she has become obsessed with fixing the house to turn it into a profitable apartment, but she's in complete denial about the inevitability of the rising water, cats hate water but also provides them with fish, their favourite food, Rosa never eats a single fish despite food being more important than rent, it's only when Rosa let's go of her denial and her desires for the material and artificial wealth, to allow the water that she fears to take her, that she can truely choose her own destiny and be free. But that's just my interpretation, there's so much symbolism packed into this movie it's really hard to keep track of everything, definitely need to watch it again, such a beautiful film
i think the stuff on the vermins is about them being the real owners of the house, the rat was just trying to turn in a profit but it is their home. I dont think it's too far off to say it's about housing speculation and how it has no regard for actual home-owners (the ones that live in the house)
I think in all of the three stories, the house always represent the character's dreams and escape, which could later consume them. Fortunately for Rosa, she wasn't consumed by the house.
The second story was my favorite. It's so bizarre and disturbing at the end with him giving up his human side and going full rodent crawling back into a dark whole of his own house inside a oven. The music was chilling in that scene to me! smh
It’s my favourite because he thinks he’s communicating with a lifelong friend when it turns out to be his dentist. In real life, it is a felony for a patient to give pet names to a health care worker.
I think that the developer was imagining the vermin “guests” because when he was at the hospital on the wall it has directions to things like “physiotherapy”
Tbh the 2nd story in my opinion is kind of reminisant of social media. He never took pics of the inside of the house whenever it was under construction but he did whenever it was done. Social media always shows us the pretty things we want to see and influencers always try their best to hide the bad stuff until it slowly consumes them. Idk it was the way i saw it(: great review btw!
in all 3 stories, people live in the house rent free, and there is a curse in the place the house is, that’s why the house is in the certain position, cosmos came to help, and save Rosa and her friends from the curse and break it!
When the couple rats kept on saying that they were extremely interested in the house actualyy meant that they were interested in not living in it but in eating it.
I thought the last story was supposed to be about letting go of things that hold you back. I thought that's what the house was. but then Rosa kept the house. She floated away with it. So, I'm sure what it was supposed to be about
I think all the stories are a methaphore for living in a house, the first story discribes the feeling of moving into a new house, at first it seems realy perfect, but it doesn’t feel like home yet. The second story is about making it your own home (the developer changing things) and accepting it’s flaws (the bugs and buyers are the flaws and the developer becoming part of the pests feasting the home is accepting the flaws). The third story is about acepting to leave the house that has become your home and realizing that home isn’t a place, but the people you suround yourself with and that home can be anywhere (why the house/home literally could go anywhere when she decided to let go). And to quote the song at the end “a house is just a collection of bricks”. But that’s just my personal interpretation.
If you notice the beetles look just like the dark brown rat and the worms look just like the tall rat and that was a sign that they are connected maybe
I feel like the stories should have kept the dark tone of the first one and explored the house as a more demonic entity. Isabel and Mabel becoming older in the following story and giving it that horror element.
I liked your commentary, sounds honest, not pretentious and just enjoyed how you talked through the video! Im glad I found this channel, and I got to agree, the first one was my favorite as well.
when i saw the baby fall down the stairs i thought for sure she was gonna be dead lmbo but thats a bit too dark for even my taste in sad fed up movie stuff also i loved the end with the cats mostly cusi love cats
Interesting ideas, looking forward to your full analysis. Just two things, the architect's name from story #1 is not "Van Surebeek", it's Mr. Van Schoonbeek. Sounded like you pronounced it with an r in the middle instead of an n Oh and in your long analysis I would not switch over the developer trying to get rid of the vermin first by not really taking care of the problem and then with poison and that it seemingly works at first and so on. I think it is important to the story.
Was gonna watch it but was curious what people thought and it’s look too creepy like naw I’m good but I like hearing your voice and the way you told the 3 stories
in story 3 i had such a bad feeling about all of them setting sail... I guess the presence of cosmos means there's a way out of there but I could feel the fear of going thru that mist
An idea for the 3rd...all the characters are in hospital.. hanging onto life. The house is kind of like limbo. Cosmos is helping them move on.. the first 2 are easy because they aren't tied down to material things. So they except death and move on even though we as a culture don't know what waits after death. Rosa..more stuck on her life and possessions...is too afraid to move on from what is important to her. But she finally excepts freeing herself and move on with the others..to the unknown.
I'm trying really hard to find deeper meanings to these stories, but... Things seem to be too all over the place to find any interpretation that contemplate all the elements of each story.
Sorry but outside of the great animation it’s just an awful film. The epitome of obtuse and pretentious for no reason, none of the possibly perceived message says anything of substance about anything, there’s no consistent in world logic and it does nothing to endear you to any of the characters besides making everyone around them nonsensically stupid or annoying.
after having watched the house two times i feel like i enjoyed the third story the most the house turned out to be a bottomless pit that no amount of effort or dedication towards fixing the house could fill the rising flood makes any attempt at fixing the house no matter initial successes or failures ultimately fruitless and i feel like its not too uncommon for people to have such fixations in their lifes. dedication towards an outcome that is impossible to achieve due to factors outside of ones own control there is a grain of wisdom to jen and kosmos esoteric insanity. rosa may have said that all she wanted was to fix the house but in reality that alone would not have made her happy she needed her friends more than she anticipated. i think the story explores the idea pretty well, that its best to move on from goals and projects that are destined to fail despite all the effort that we have already invested when we spend years in the pursuit of something we lose the ability to put a stop to it, lest our efforts are in vain. but we are never fully in control. sometimes its better to just move on sometimes i envy the bridge and rail, how freeing it would be to be indifferent to being broken by our burdens. but we take shame in failure even if the odds were impossible to begin with the house is a burden, to everyone who inhabited it. each tied to it by bad decisions and an inability to call it quits it never brought anyone any good. the family could have lived a happy life without such burdens if they had just ended their relationship with their relatives instead of trying to appeal to them this way the developer could have had a different life if he hadnt invested in the house in hopes of reselling it. perhaps he could have made it through the recession just fine if he hadnt picked up such a gamble rosa could have lived a carefree life even after the floods if she had just abandoned the idea of her hotel ever returning to its old glory. perhaps it would have been more fiting if the house had sunken along with all its history instead of becoming a ship. the theme of letting go could have been more impactful if rosa had to actually abandon the house and leave it to its fate. in the end thou i really liked the movie, it was definitely a pleasant surprise to see something good on netflix again
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Yeah, don't bother. This was a heaping pile of trash. They tried so hard to be clever. But that is all it was, a try, but definitely did not deliver. This is an artsy couple of short stories that people with simple minds can watch and say they watched an artsy show. That is all this is.
There will be a lot of people who agree with you and a lot who disagree Daniel! It's a very subjective film from the public response thus far! Thank you for your input though and for checking out the video :)
One scene that terrifys me to the core is Mr Thomas mental break down. It sounds genuinely terrifying
Oh my days that was HORRENDOUS man, the pain in his voice :O
I was really hoping they would've gone deeper with that. His speech saying that Van Schoonbeek gives him a script to read and that he's constantly changing the house, it felt like there was a lot more there that wasn't being said. A POV from Mr. Thomas's perspective would've been really interesting
just imagine him turning round and going “hello jackie” and it solves it 😹
nah but seriously, mark heap’s voice was a perfect choice for this. absolutely unhinged
@@UnleashTheGhouls 11:00 i didn't understand at first either about the purpose of the strange couple invading the house but in the bathroom scene I saw something that really shocked an chilled my back.
The bodies of the strange rat couple represent the fur beetles infecting the house.
It explains why the relatives have extra limbs when they're clapping the Developer home. Since the do physical represent the insects the behave wildly eating away the house. And I think I remember on of the strange couple saying that "they were here before before you"??
The House is about home ownership in the midst of uncertain times. There's themes of materialism, recession and the impending climate crisis. People look down on vermin and other creatures, like we are so very different from everything else. This emphasized by the way mice are depicted as humans looking down on insects. However insects are the ones living and enjoying their home to the fullest. People get so wrapped up in owning a home that they often lose sight of the purpose of a home. At the expense of caring for the children in the first story, honesty and decency in the second story and finally full on denial in the third. For all of our advanced technology and customs, in the end we are all subject to forces beyond our control.
Thank you ♥️
isobel was a tough a baby she was lit
She survived falling head first down brick stairs she’s basically indestructible 😂😂
I had the feeling that this baby would survive everything
Yea jumping down the stone steps wouldn't feel great lol
@@garybob212 isobel was the parkour master
Isobel's made of fabrics she's invincible lol
There’s another interesting thing to note, throughout each story from one to the other has a reference to the previous story, the first story, Mabel is playing with two mice in her doll house, In the second story the mice who show up to the Developers open house when he shows it off, there’s a mouse couple with one holding a baby mouse, and their daughter running around. When the baby mouse starts crying the mother says “shush Isobel” the same name of the baby in the previous story, and the family matches up with the mother, father, older daughter, and newborn. Not to mention the Developer says he lives on Von Schoonbeek street. The name of the strange maybe devil creator of the house in the first story. In the third story it’s far more subtle with just a beetle being seen skittering across a floorboard that Rosa walks past. No one really talks about these interesting connections between all the stories.
I believe in the opening scene of the rat story there is also a sewing machine in a pile outside
The weird couple in the second story IS the bugs. They’re the exact same silhouette as the dancing bugs, and you can tell their arms and feet don’t move in tandem. Also the rat family at the end has four hands when they were clapping.
The house in 2 represents the garrish painted up lie the rat is trying to live, and ends with it collapsing into the reality of his true self. In fact the true/lie dichotomy is reflected in the fact that every inferred aspect of the rat turns out to be a lie ( the girl, the quality house, the bank excuses) and everything the bug couple says is true (they were interested in the house… and its furnishings).
1 was a matroyshka wealth trap: the ancient expensive bureau in the poor house in the large house that is constantly added to because the family is never rich enough, whatever they have, and the children/family is forgotten in the process. The couple eventually ends up as decor : most people who work their whole lives end up as pictures on the wall anyway.
The 3rd one was just ‘the house is not a home’ : the lost tenants representing the people Rosa lost in her pursuit of a beautiful house-and-landlord lifestyle she’s got it mind. Jen says, and Rosa agrees, that she will end up with a beautiful house with no tenants: the best of lives. The seminal moment is in the montage, where she sees that her perception of the tenants as leeches is very close to another perspective: that they could have been friends she enjoyed her life with, if she’ll only let go of her proper dreams.
I agree with a lot of this but a detail i noticed was that you said the girl in your description of 2 but it was confirmed his dentist was in fact a male. Just a detail I noticed, don't mean to critique
First story: If you care about materials too much, you'd lose yourself in them. You will attach your whole sense of self in materials and they will fully consume you.
Second story: When the contractor mouse first saw a couple bugs crawling into the wall, he didn't fix the issue properly. He just put some glue in the wall, which allowed the bugs to reproduce inside the wall and eventually destroy the entire house. At the end, the mice all live and crawl around the house just like cockroaches. So, my explanation: if you don't fix small issues, they will build up, causing more issues and take over your entire life.
Third story: sometimes it takes losing everything (friends, house, money, plans) for someone to let go and open a new chapter of life.
Thank you...im frustrated by this movie and try to figure it out what they try to deliver to people
Really good explanation 👍🏽👍🏽
But in addition to all of this there are shitloads of double meanings too! First thing you ever see when the movie starts is illuminati checkerboard if you didnt realize this for example
Nice opinion..
best explanation so far. All of the things we saw in this movie are real issues faced in real life. I dont think it has anything to do with the mystic explanations such as curse or the devil, these are far too basic to explain the real details here.
To me the third story was the one that impacted me the most. When I was watching Rosa sail away I got teary eyed. I wasn't really sure why at first it was so impactful for me but, like the highlighted comment says, I think the story is about moving on and embracing change. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck with a person, a mindset or a lifestyle that ends up consuming us. Other people warn us but we don't realise how bad it's getting and how bad it can eventually get. Rosa finally opens her eyes to her situation when the people she cares about leave her and she's completely alone. Watching her sail away towards a new future, a new life, was extremely hopeful for me, having gone through a lot of rough patches in my life and having to sail away from them on my own
same bro same :(
My personal interpretation
First story: The father is an alcoholic and a gambler. The fire he's constantly trying to light up is his addictions. He sells (burns) expensive furniture, and he's only able to light up the fire when he burns the precious dollhouse and the most expensive cabinet. The mother gets stuck in sewing to distract herself from the misery. She gets "sucked in" by her work to drown her sorrow. In this case, the evil spirit is the gambling. The gambling promises luxury, good things, devouring the parents in a loop made of distractions. As for the butler/ attorney, I think it could be a simple metaphor for another victim of gambling/ alcohol, just like the workers. The children are cast aside from their parents' misery but at the same time they are swallowed by it. Their parents are addicted to work/ gambling and ignore both of them until their problems destroy their life (the house burning to the ground) Their children eventually get away because they don't fall into their parents' addictions.
Second story: It's all about pretending to be someone else/ hide the dust under the rough. At the beginning we are seeing dumpsters filled with garbage and the protagonist lives in a basement, signs that can be associated with vermins. We see him trying to get the bugs killed, going crazy, making the house a royal palace. But when he finally gets what he wants, he gets rejected. His partner does not exist, the clients don't care about anything (the clients are MICE, which are usually considered cuter than rats). But most importantly..he's cherished and considered only by the mices who act like bugs and goes to the hospital because of HIS OWN POISON. At the end we see him "feasting" with the bug-rats, much like an infestation. He's finally happy because he's not pretending to be someone else. He finally accepted that he is a rat. A vermin, usually considered a parasite, much like the bugs.
Third story: Change is beautiful. The protagonist is stuck in that house. She wants to make it beautiful, to attract people in it. But she seems to fail all the time. And while her attention is fixated on the house, she does not notice the flood approaching. Her housemates are aware of the flood and constantly warn her about it. They get ready for it. At the end the cat is alone. But why tho? She didn't move on. The flood is adulthood/ future. She keeps denying it because the house is safe, past is safe, past is secure and known. Future is uncertain, much like the sea. And while her friends move on with their lives (the boats) she gets stuck there. And only when a person who's not in her circle builds her a boat, she's able to move. What does that mean? The boat is MADE WITH THE HOUSE. She's finally able to move on with her life without forgetting her past, thanks to someone who showed her the way. In this case, the house could also be associated with trauma or loss, and the sciaman cat with a terapist.
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Loved this theory!
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U got tu wrong, the rat is not happy, he simply gave up with his mental problem.
For the second story. I think a lot of people are thinking too literally about the "rats" that wont leave the developer's home. We know he had formed this delusional relationship he fabricated with his dentist. The family of rodents are the developer's delusional representation of the bug infestation in the home. They're his found family and the house ultimately is as much theirs as it is his. In the end, the bugs destroy the home by literally eating the carpeting and natural insulation. This was a great three part story about the rejection of materialism and the focus on the importance of human connection, family, and personal joy.
agreed and I think its confirmed by his call to the police in which he has a hard time explaining what the situation is and the fact that they never end up helping him
interesting
Pretty literal interpretation there. I'm going to give it a shot.
I think the thesis statement of the show is stated in end credits song. Its a series of short stories that are meant to be allegorical of people's relationships with the house itself. Story one I think is probably the most obvious. Its a story from the perspective of a child where she watches her parents be burdened by the expectations of their elders. They end up moving to a house on a hill which I am interpreting to be a reference to the "City Upon a Hill" which is a phrase dating back a long ways in Christian culture. Specifically the Sermon on the Mount. In American culture this becomes something of a political philosophy for American Exceptionalism. Its a very British show but I think it can be interpreted in a similar way, minus the Americanism. The family desires to be observed. Observed by their family as that shining beacon and model on which others can model themselves. The problem is that the house is always changing. Its never finished. The children become lost in it. The mother ends up working herself ragged which seems metaphor for living up to standards that are never complete. The father keeps the light, the Shining part of the Shining City Upon the Hill, lit by burning his past self. More than that even. Not just his own things but the family inheritance as well. Come the end, the mother and father have become so absorbed by the house they are consumed by it. Becoming accessories to it instead of people. In the end, this City Upon the Hill doesn't shine. It burns. The only one looking up to the house is their daughters who are forced to watch it be consumed.
Chapter two is a bit trickier for me to interpret. It makes it explicitly clear that the Developer is doing his damnedest to cut every corner he can manage to save money bringing this home up to par. He fires his construction crew, fills in the floor molding with caulk and burns all the trash in the backyard. We can infer that this isn't his home. Its just a house that he has purchased as an asset to make a profit from. We are led to believe that he's doing this to fund his life and his human connections . We spend most of the chapter believing he has someone given his phone conversations but the one-sidedness gives an off vibe. The real turning point of the movie isn't the realization that these bug shaped mice intend to stay. Its learning that the Developer has a para-social relationship with his dentist of all people. I think the Developer is using his work and his hustle to refurbish himself in the same way that he has refurbished the house. Superficially. Ignoring the foundational problems, putting on a fresh paint job and caulking up the holes in the facade. The family invited in symbolizing the rot present within already being exacerbated. In the end, the insect-like rodent people end up devouring the entire renovation. In tandem, the entire persona the Developer has cultivated is stripped away. We don't know who he was before his hustle so he regresses to the only other thing we know him to be. A rat.
Chapter three is probably the most simple. It very much feels like a Covid inspired story. It can very easily be summed up as a woman being a slave to her own intended life path while she desperately ignores the fact that the world cannot support what she wanted her life to be anymore. The house is the future she wanted that is no longer attainable. The tenants being the personal relationships she has cultivated. Most have left. She has been unable to keep them. The chapter is all about the few people she has left being unable to maintain their relationship to her while she continues to toil away at an untenable dream. She doesn't know who she would be without the house and her pursuit in perfecting it. The people in her life are ready to move on from her. The moral ends up being that she may not be able to see where she is going but she must move on or she will drown. Instead of giving herself to a future she has decided, she ends up leveraging the house she already has towards navigating a future she cannot predict.
I really like your interpretations! I really liked chapter 3 the most. I feel that it can have many interpretations. My first thoughts were that the flood could be a statement on global warming and the potential flooding that could occur from it. The other interpretation I had is that she is a spirit who cannot move on into the after life and her tenants are spirits who are getting ready to move on.
Nice but missed everything i said
Man, imma need to bust out my thesaurus
I like your interpretations the most
Great Interpretations! I think you've hit the nail on the head for all three.
My super simple interpretation:
1- Don’t let materialism change who you are.
2- If you don’t face your problems when then arise, they will grow until they overwhelm you.
3- Sometimes letting go of what you want to hold onto the tightest will set you free.
I think you don't mentioned it but the house is the same in the three stories. Since it's foundations till Rosa moves along with it. For me it was cursed since the beginning because Mr. Van Schoonbeek is the devil, so every story would be wrong in one point, that's why the developer just went crazy. It would be interesting to see more stories in between with different owners and stories. More in the future the house belongs to Rosa somehow the curse it's done when she leaves, because in story 1 Mr. Thomas mentioned something about the house location, so now that the house moved, it's a new beginning for it too.
you forgot a major detail about the second story: the large mice are shaped like the beetles! the long ones like the larvae and the smaller ones like the beetle.
When I saw the last short, I immediately thought- this is about grief. Personally?
I don't see many people in the comments mentioning the photo of Rosa's family in the last short, so I thought I'd bring it up. That's why I think the last story is a metaphor for grief and moving on from loss and tragedy, explaining the cat's fixation and strange unwillingness to bring up the flood, a clearly devastating event. Which is why her friend carefully says " Rosa, why don't you talk about the flood? " Her parents in her photo likely died in the flood, causing her to fixate on controlling her surroundings and deny the consequences, a common coping mechanism of grief stricken people. She wants to make the house exactly how she pictures it, exactly how she ( and maybe even her parents ) intended it to be before the flood, denying that she will never have the chance. Accepting that your plans must come to a sudden stop, that something can never be again, something with that moral is always about grief somehow.
- also, i like the detail that in this instance the house isn't an evil force, but the willingness to change it into something completely new made it something kind of beautiful and useful, really emphasizing how it really has no power over anyone, its nothing but a pile of bricks, as the credits song says.
But the second short is interesting to me? Because it isn't as clear but at the same time it felt funnily... relatable. You see, I have executive dysfunction, and remaining organized and clean is a daily struggle without systemic aids. My daily routines are held together with duct tape. If you've ever heard the phrase " aren't you tired of being nice, don't you want to go apesh*t " that is the feral vibe I got from that ending, gross as it was. And I think it really was, in this instance, that the house was a metaphor for the self, and all the work to glamorize and touch up with modern and trendy details- and yet the sink isn't installed right and the drapes are too heavy for the bolt- is really a metaphor for this very tenuously held together man that-- like the house-- looks charming and fine on the outside, a little nervous perhaps but fine, but is actually moments away from completely regressing into disheveled insanity. Even before he goes full rat, look at how heart broken he was when he realized they weren't buying the house and his dentist didn't want to be called 'darling'. But still, the disheveled life in its own unpleasant and bittersweet way, might actually be more ideal than the fake pleasantness of his decorations and his made up dentist friend.
You'll also notice he takes off all his "contractor" gear, especially throwing his kind of cheesy 'managerial type' ear piece, before the insane bug dance kicked in?
and the fact that his pest control poison poisoned him being the direct metaphor for his attempt to clean and perfect himself literally harming him. The sheer irony of a rat calling a bug vermin is very prominent. I mean, the normal rats who visited the house were incredibly messy as well, were they really much better?
But what reads as so odd to me about that is that the story seems to necessitate them... accepting that you are painting trash gold. The trash being you. Which is just such an... interesting moral... but I just kinda enjoy it haha.
As another executive dysfunctional person sometimes, this 2nd story hit me the hardest and most unpleasant. 1st story was beautiful and interesting but I felt like I was watching a tale out of the Goosebumps series or Coraline, something whimsical and a simple moral about greed/not trusting strangers I seen a million times before. 2nd story though left me with a deep existential nausea, that still has not gone away and badly needed the 3rd story to soothe it. It had a very David Lynchia vibe, and brilliantly made something wildly uncomfortable and scary without any moment of gore or implied deaths. That's incredible talent to me. It struck a nerve for multiple personal reasons, but it especially reminded me of what you said, the whole "wouldn't it just be easier to stop pretending to be normal, give up and go full apesh*t"/let go of all your dreams and sanity and expectations of adulthood and just wallow upon the care of others and institutions totally supporting you, essentially, to live life a parasite. It's hard to know what to do with even a perfect adult plan, when your body or mind just doesn't work the same way it should, nor does knowing where you else will go in life if poverty or stress always seems inevitable, except down. It's the moral of the 3rd story I think, that we appreciate those around us who try to reach out, and have a support system to help us carry ourselves on, when we are not fine. 2nd tale's main unfortunately is so far gone, or so lecherously entitled, that he THINKS that he has that support system(in his dentist he stalks, his potential buyers) but really he has nobody, because he is shallow, pushy, and intrusive of privacy. The beetles might be like toxic friends or drugs/drug dealers who only further feed upon his madness and self delusions, and in a way metaphorically convince him that it is is easier to regress and give up.
I am so obsessed with the first story. It's all I've been able to think about for the last three days.
I’m here for u man
The Second story been on my mind! It's so bizarre and disturbing at the end with him giving up his human side and going full rodent crawling back into a dark whole of his own house inside a oven. The music was chilling for that scene! smh
I think your missing the points of all of the 3 Movies in this setting... Which is really sad for your talent of cutting and voicing the video... All in one the movie 2, the two rodents where fromed like The Fur bugs itself, which wasn't even noted from your sight, which is kinda obvious to see that the two strange rodents where treating the house like the bugs at the beginning. The Developer of the hose turns then into what he already was. But I don't want to sound like a hater you have talent with the cutting and voicing so a like from me 🤔 keep it up.
I did mention that the Vermin at the end begin to infest the house and begin to take over it, just didn't liken it to the bugs! I think that The House is a brilliant series that has some great complexities and symbolism that will reward repeat viewings. This was more of a general breakdown of what happens in the series as well as some of my own personal ideas and theories based on only my first watch. Thank you for your feedback and for checking out the video! :) - Connor
I really dunno why, but when some of the rats suddenly had four arms and shit I was genuinely creeped out...
Because they were the Fur Beetles he was trynna get rid of! The dude was really going insane, very trippy episode with lots of symbolism in it. It's my favorite one!
The developers insecurities about himself and the house are reflected in the insects. As a society we view such creatures as worthless and disgusting, as he silently views himself. The more he sinks further into self pity and isolation the more the roaches appear, thus culminating In the developer giving into his fears and accepting a reality where his fears finally consume him.
Nice observation, I like hearing different takes on this one because it's my favorite! It's filled with so many symbolisms.
First off, I want to commend the creators for the hundreds possibly thousands of hours of work to create this polished, piece of stop-motion. Trust me, IT'S VERY TIME CONSUMING, most people would just quit. But I watched it and liked the creepy first one but it could've been creepier. To have a Mature rating I wish they went all out on the scaryness but they held back. No blood, killing or anything.
I totaly get your point but I personally don't think they held back at all.I prefer the more abstract direction the creators went with over the classical blood and death. That's just sortof overdone in my opinion
@@finnlaymoth2171 ok I see your point. It's really good in that sense. I love the art and creative aspect of it. The stories teach us a lesson about life.
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Gore would be probably pointless. I think that the creators went for existential horror, wich is much more scary imo. Being burnt alive after having turned into their affictions is much scarrier than just being massacred as if they were innocent victims. This is the way that fables work.
But did it really need an M rating?
Just finished watching the movie myself. I really liked your interpretations of all three stories. I found that using the house itself as a mechanism for the storytelling made for a very thought provoking set of tales. It feels as though the house (the building itself) becomes the manifestation of the current owner's inner self.
The only time the house is seen in a truly positive light is when Rosa is finally able to let go of her past and move on into a brighter future. I felt the ending was a little anticlimactic compared to how the first short set up the house. However, I still think it was a fitting end to a very worthwhile movie.
Just something I noticed, the dollhouse in episode one is literally the same as the house from the outside or atleast very similar
so this one i guess is for adults, the movie was so deep
I think what you’re missing is the overriding theme of all of these tales that centers around a house. Which is why they don’t explore each individual world in great detail or the “powers” of the benefactor or what exactly the name of the “developer” is or what happened to cause a great flooding in rosas story.
A house is a very intimate place. You can define a house as warm and loving place - inviting and filled with good memories. Or put more simply a “home”. In contrast it can be a source of vanity or greed. It can be empty and hallow only filled of memories past some not always positive. It can take on a more sinister tone, being a place of fear and uncertainty. And in the most primal of aspects a place for shelter and safety.
Each short story instead explores the different ways a person can be consumed with a house whether it be positive or negative and how intimate and life changing these events can be.
It gives modern day Coraline
i think the second one is about the developers mental health as the bugs surround the house tearing him down as hes tryna make himself look nice and stylish on the outside hes got dark things on the inside as we see when he walks down the stairs we see bugs still there i also think the killer thing is a drug that is trying to help him cope with his mental health. also the rats that are ''interested in the house" are just using him which in real life its like people using u which tears u down. as to cope with this he takes an overdose which knocks him out and he ends up in the hospital. and when he goes home and everyones claping i think all the rats that are there are basically sinking him into his sadness and it turns him crazy and its to the point were he is basically trying to make himself not look appealing as the darkness consumes him he turns to the hole i think simbilising that he died and was moving onto the after life. we also see with the scene with the police when hes asking for help the police do nothing and thats how it is kinda like in the real world like the police dont care and i think with the dentist i think it was some coping mechanism to talk to someone since he has no one to talk to.
gee this was long i hope u enjoyed reading this
I just realized something! In the beginning of the first story, Mabel is playing with her doll house and her dolls are the 2 main rodents from the second story. Then in the second story, when the 2 main rodents invite their family to the house, the tall one says to the rat "They used to live here you know"
During the fire scene, when the fire started to creep up on Mabel and Isobel I was like "No! You're made of felt! Run!"
Isobel baby in episode 1, episode 2 little baby rat also called Isobel. Coincidence or is she still affected by the curse , returning to the house in another life
Wow that's an amazing detail! Well spotted!
Coincidence? I think not!
I think Isabelle is God in these stories. She shrugged off gravity and physics like they didn't exist. Isabelle is the goat 🐐
I didn't realize it was the same house until I rewatched the 2nd story and some of the possessions from the 1st story like the sewing machine were thrown into the trashbin by the mouse contractor.
i watched this movie right before writing this comment. I was confused by the first two stories but was entertained none the less. But I especially loved the third story.
The whole movie is about materialism, consumerism, greed, and denial, and how those things can affect, change, and destroy, not only yourself, but the world aswell, the houses curse is one of greed, and it seeps out of the house, overtime affecting the whole world.
We start as humans in a lush green world, living humbly, before materialism consumes the parents, they become enchanted by material things and thus lose themselves, they turn into literal objects.
when humans die, rats eat the corpses, consumerism is in full swing, no longer green, it's now a vast metropolis during a hard financial time, the curse of the house has spread far and wide(our current time) and while rats may be smart, they also will consume anything, the desperation brought upon the developer causes him to not only have a mental break, but to engulf himself into consumerism, he buys gadgets to cover up his own short comings, instead of fixing the major problem of the insect infestation, consumerism eventually consumes him too, devolving the rats into mindless beings that can only consume, insects.
The world is ending, it seems like the fat cats have eaten the rats but they're not fat anymore, the world is flooded, the downfall of the world caused by the curse of the house is upon us, only the house remains, and it still has a hold of at least 1 person, Rosa, she has become obsessed with fixing the house to turn it into a profitable apartment, but she's in complete denial about the inevitability of the rising water, cats hate water but also provides them with fish, their favourite food, Rosa never eats a single fish despite food being more important than rent, it's only when Rosa let's go of her denial and her desires for the material and artificial wealth, to allow the water that she fears to take her, that she can truely choose her own destiny and be free.
But that's just my interpretation, there's so much symbolism packed into this movie it's really hard to keep track of everything, definitely need to watch it again, such a beautiful film
i think the stuff on the vermins is about them being the real owners of the house, the rat was just trying to turn in a profit but it is their home. I dont think it's too far off to say it's about housing speculation and how it has no regard for actual home-owners (the ones that live in the house)
they make quite clear that he's welcomed to live there, just not take their home from them
so the moral of the story might be about the real value of property vs the market value
I think in all of the three stories, the house always represent the character's dreams and escape, which could later consume them. Fortunately for Rosa, she wasn't consumed by the house.
Fuuuuuck I didn't notice Gustavo Santaolalla was the composer!
The second story was my favorite. It's so bizarre and disturbing at the end with him giving up his human side and going full rodent crawling back into a dark whole of his own house inside a oven. The music was chilling in that scene to me! smh
The 2nd story is my favorite because the 2 rodents that like the house resemble the bugs from earlier in the part.
It’s my favourite because he thinks he’s communicating with a lifelong friend when it turns out to be his dentist. In real life, it is a felony for a patient to give pet names to a health care worker.
I think that the developer was imagining the vermin “guests” because when he was at the hospital on the wall it has directions to things like “physiotherapy”
Tbh the 2nd story in my opinion is kind of reminisant of social media. He never took pics of the inside of the house whenever it was under construction but he did whenever it was done. Social media always shows us the pretty things we want to see and influencers always try their best to hide the bad stuff until it slowly consumes them. Idk it was the way i saw it(: great review btw!
The developer was just a total pushover, the whole thing was so bizarre
Honestly I hadn’t noticed but Elias’s boat does kind of look like a coffin
Is it just me or does the plot of the second story have a Junji Ito vibe?
I was actual quite confused while watching this, but I think I understand now.
Loved this his movie 3rd story could’ve been better tho
You can tell the prospective buyers and family in story two are manifestations of the bugs .... its so well illustrated.. its so weird
I'm too scared to watch this movie myself so here I am XD
It’s not scary at all - it just opens up a lot of questions about what it could all mean 😊 Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Stu
in all 3 stories, people live in the house rent free, and there is a curse in the place the house is, that’s why the house is in the certain position, cosmos came to help,
and save Rosa and her friends from the curse and break it!
When the couple rats kept on saying that they were extremely interested in the house actualyy meant that they were interested in not living in it but in eating it.
11:00 this is a history abaut insanaty and the verms represent caos
I thought the last story was supposed to be about letting go of things that hold you back. I thought that's what the house was. but then Rosa kept the house. She floated away with it. So, I'm sure what it was supposed to be about
sometimes when you let go of things that you are so persistent about, they come to you on their own, because now you are ready to truly cherish them
I think all the stories are a methaphore for living in a house, the first story discribes the feeling of moving into a new house, at first it seems realy perfect, but it doesn’t feel like home yet. The second story is about making it your own home (the developer changing things) and accepting it’s flaws (the bugs and buyers are the flaws and the developer becoming part of the pests feasting the home is accepting the flaws). The third story is about acepting to leave the house that has become your home and realizing that home isn’t a place, but the people you suround yourself with and that home can be anywhere (why the house/home literally could go anywhere when she decided to let go). And to quote the song at the end “a house is just a collection of bricks”. But that’s just my personal interpretation.
Am I the only one who has a crush on Elias??
This movie sucks
What did you not like about it Wicky?
@@UnleashTheGhoulsbro just casually drops his opinion refuses to explain 💀
If you notice the beetles look just like the dark brown rat and the worms look just like the tall rat and that was a sign that they are connected maybe
I feel like the stories should have kept the dark tone of the first one and explored the house as a more demonic entity. Isabel and Mabel becoming older in the following story and giving it that horror element.
I liked your commentary, sounds honest, not pretentious and just enjoyed how you talked through the video! Im glad I found this channel, and I got to agree, the first one was my favorite as well.
Thank you Kass! That's very much what I like to deliver with Honest Reviews ;) I'm very glad you found us!
Amazing review
I really hope more people check out this movie and it gets the appreciation it deserves.
Bruh don’t watch this while you’re high.😭
when i saw the baby fall down the stairs i thought for sure she was gonna be dead lmbo but thats a bit too dark for even my taste in sad fed up movie stuff also i loved the end with the cats mostly cusi love cats
Stories like this fuck me up. Idk why but I'm not affraid of much but things like this and spirited away and a few others. It's the same situation
Interesting ideas, looking forward to your full analysis.
Just two things, the architect's name from story #1 is not "Van Surebeek", it's Mr. Van Schoonbeek. Sounded like you pronounced it with an r in the middle instead of an n
Oh and in your long analysis I would not switch over the developer trying to get rid of the vermin first by not really taking care of the problem and then with poison and that it seemingly works at first and so on. I think it is important to the story.
Full analysis available now Andy! :D
I think the last story is that maybe they’ve died in the flood and Rosa’s friends leaving are them moving on from purgatory or something? Idk.
You have a good video for such a small channel.
I wish you luck in continuing to grow.
Thank you very much for you kind comment Lev! We will hopefully not me a small channel for much longer :D
if the Movie can have more movies i would watch more!
Would definitely love to see more!
Was gonna watch it but was curious what people thought and it’s look too creepy like naw I’m good but I like hearing your voice and the way you told the 3 stories
Thank you G/O!
The 3rd is the best because cute kitty cats :3
I was procrastinating watching this movie but when I saw u came out with a review I had to watch it
I found story 2 creepy af 😅
in story 3 i had such a bad feeling about all of them setting sail... I guess the presence of cosmos means there's a way out of there but I could feel the fear of going thru that mist
An idea for the 3rd...all the characters are in hospital.. hanging onto life. The house is kind of like limbo. Cosmos is helping them move on.. the first 2 are easy because they aren't tied down to material things. So they except death and move on even though we as a culture don't know what waits after death. Rosa..more stuck on her life and possessions...is too afraid to move on from what is important to her. But she finally excepts freeing herself and move on with the others..to the unknown.
I'm trying really hard to find deeper meanings to these stories, but... Things seem to be too all over the place to find any interpretation that contemplate all the elements of each story.
Sorry but outside of the great animation it’s just an awful film. The epitome of obtuse and pretentious for no reason, none of the possibly perceived message says anything of substance about anything, there’s no consistent in world logic and it does nothing to endear you to any of the characters besides making everyone around them nonsensically stupid or annoying.
Always interesting to hear this viewpoint! Thank you for sharing your views!
after having watched the house two times i feel like i enjoyed the third story the most
the house turned out to be a bottomless pit that no amount of effort or dedication towards fixing the house could fill
the rising flood makes any attempt at fixing the house no matter initial successes or failures ultimately fruitless
and i feel like its not too uncommon for people to have such fixations in their lifes. dedication towards an outcome that is impossible to achieve due to factors outside of ones own control
there is a grain of wisdom to jen and kosmos esoteric insanity. rosa may have said that all she wanted was to fix the house but in reality that alone would not have made her happy
she needed her friends more than she anticipated.
i think the story explores the idea pretty well, that its best to move on from goals and projects that are destined to fail despite all the effort that we have already invested
when we spend years in the pursuit of something we lose the ability to put a stop to it, lest our efforts are in vain. but we are never fully in control. sometimes its better to just move on
sometimes i envy the bridge and rail, how freeing it would be to be indifferent to being broken by our burdens. but we take shame in failure even if the odds were impossible to begin with
the house is a burden, to everyone who inhabited it. each tied to it by bad decisions and an inability to call it quits
it never brought anyone any good. the family could have lived a happy life without such burdens if they had just ended their relationship with their relatives instead of trying to appeal to them this way
the developer could have had a different life if he hadnt invested in the house in hopes of reselling it. perhaps he could have made it through the recession just fine if he hadnt picked up such a gamble
rosa could have lived a carefree life even after the floods if she had just abandoned the idea of her hotel ever returning to its old glory.
perhaps it would have been more fiting if the house had sunken along with all its history instead of becoming a ship. the theme of letting go could have been more impactful if rosa had to actually abandon the house and leave it to its fate. in the end thou i really liked the movie, it was definitely a pleasant surprise to see something good on netflix again
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