Netflix's The House's Real Meaning Explained
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Netflix'sThe House.
Netflix's three-part stop-motion animation special The House is one of the streamer's strangest and most unique releases, but the three stories work together to send a clear message which is a biting critique of consumerism. The House uses its multiple time frames and artistic styles to represent the rise of capitalism and consumerism, its modern apex, and its apocalyptic future. Through metaphor as well as direct depiction, The House both sympathetically depicts why people engage in consumerism and its ultimate flaws.
Produced by the UK's Nexus Studios, The House has alternately been described as a limited series and an anthology film, with each segment having a different director and using different types of characters. The sole connecting factor is a large house which seems to bring ruin to whoever inhabits it. The voice cast includes Enola Holmes' Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Goth, Jarvis Cocker, and Susan Wokoma.
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The House has a number of surreal moments, such as a dance routine performed by termite-like «fur beetles,» and its disconnected stories may seem hard to interpret at first glance. However, all three stories focus on the selling and consumption of property in increasingly absurd circumstances. These plots allow for a great deal of trenchant commentary about modern consumerism and capitalism, which is The House's true meaning.
The first part of The House features human-like figures and is set at some point in the past in the English countryside. While no specific time frame is given, the clothing and decor would suggest that this is the late 19th or early 20th century. This time
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