Cuckoo
Cuckoo
Cuckoo Summary
Cuckoo: The focus of the narrative is on a 17 year old girl, Gretchen. She is however forced to abandon her home in the US for Germany to be with her father, who has just started a new family with a holiday resort in the German Alps.
When they arrive at the house which is supposed to be their new home, they are abruptly introduced to the strange Mr. König who is her father’s employer and takes a strange liking to Gretchen’s half sister Alma, a creepy mute girl.
Doubtless, there is more than meets the eye at this acquisition of a so-called beautiful holiday resort, and so she decides to find out the deeper truth behind it. In the process, she battles apparitions and eerie sounds which finally lead to shocking truths.
What is making Gretchen become sad?
In order to comprehend this psyche of Gretchen – and the conflicted emotions concerning home and family – it helps in analysing the background ofa certain Gretchen. There has been a death, her mother’s, apparently, and there is more, as she has to go live with her father, who now has a wife and a small daughter of three years named Alma.
At first, she doesn’t think of wet nurse’s daughter as her sister and positions herself as an outsider in this household full of biogenetic sickos. There was a void she could not seem to fill in and so for some reason applied herself to work at the front-desk of König’s hotel.
Nonetheless, she starts to see some rather uncomfortable visions, a strange figure follows her on a bike and she also manages to crack her skull and needs to have her wound stitched.
What does König do in the resort?
This is a mild red herring, in the sense that we are led to believe Gretchen’s predicament could be in the form of a head injury. Apart from being involved in a car crash, a plane crash incident causes her to get head wrapped with bandage for the remainder of the film where she nearly forces her face into the plane window.
But that its normal course is more peculiar. It turns out that König is a “preservationist” and a sophisticated resort conceals the dark truth. His whole life has been the head of a breeding program that exists for generations, their target is to breed superwomen with cuckoo reproductive and cow-like parasitic tendencies with superpowers.
What does König hope to achieve by engaging in such an undertaking?
Oh well, we do not seem to be privileged into such a revelation. Cuckoos as a species are generally regarded as being naturally loners, and the isolation plays a critical part in the final phase of the film, when Alma (we’re going to discuss her in a moment) is “rescued” by Gretchen when she hugs the sister to snap out of the enchantment. But that is just one out of many questions that have always been left unanswered!
How do they stop König, who is almost killed by an object?
As soon as it gets apparent that König should have Alma as her next target of experiments, Gretchen and Henry (the police officer friend/enemy she teams up) crawl onto the picture to try and stop him.
Well, it appears that these participates in this breeding program use the hotel as a trap to lure couples and put them through sound control operational deception. For instance, Konig is featured as operating a recording device where he directs various women whenever the movie is running.
As for the end-state, König then makes those complicit within this greater conspiracy defile the unsuspecting women and take cuckoo humanoids born out of them but raised by the couples. Unlike the misuse of the jealous Jones amongst cuckolders, actual female cuckoos commit this animal by laying their eggs into the nests of other, practically quite unrelated, birds, leaving the helpless parents to rear their progeny.
Why Alma?
In the first third of the film, one of the first women in the cult who appeals to König is Alma only to be fully understood in the latter part of the film. Alma is in fact one of these cuckoo humanoids since she was unknowingly born at a rest house by her parents many years back.
The woman that Gretchen is able to barricade in her room after getting captured, is the biological mother of Alma. This means that Gretchen and Alma have much more in common than we thought in the first place, and by the time the end credits roll, it is not surprising that they have managed to forge a bond.
What of the responsibly required and ethically removable themes?
Singer himself admits that the ending, which is one of the main sticking points of the movie, is drawn into the audience’s interpretation. It’s this latest step by him that wowed praises from the Hollywood Reporter in which he claimed that Cuckoo should be seen as an allegory of reproductive health or sisterhood, but none of these issues were embarked on his quest. And yeah, that definitely seems that way while watching!
It seems to me that the theme of the film boils down to how far you are willing to go for your family. You know they say blood is thicker than water, that is true, however in this case of Cuckoo I guess cuckoo-humanoid blood is thicker than that?
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- Genre: horror, Mystery
- Country: United States
- Director: Tilman Singer
- Cast: Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas
