![]() ![]() So, there is both an impulse of life and death in choosing an animal for David, who betrays his unwavering optimism to find a partner in picking a lobster: an animal renowned for its fertility and its longevity. The hotel manager herself congratulates David for choosing a lobster, commenting that most people are satisfied to become dogs, alluding at their banal and interchangeable personalities. When they first arrive in the hotel, choosing an animal is meant to define them. The " being transformed into an animal of your choice" gimmick is a stand-in for mortality. If you look a little closer into The Lobster, it becomes quite existential. People become caught in similar, not necessarily suitable lifestyles and whoever disagrees is chased into the woods and marginalized. Not only it's an indictment of conformity, it criticizes neoliberalism's endgame too. This is the way things are for the characters of The Lobsterand not necessarily a powerful injustice to have the State forcing you into unsuitable domesticity. Oppression likes to wear a cloak of normalcy. ![]() It's a funny exercise, but it's not silly by any means. It's also an uproarious deconstruction of the overused dystopian tropes in American movies: the movie is set in a boring present rather than a dramatic, war-torn future it's featuring uninteresting middle-aged adults instead of young and soulful people love is enforced upon the oppressed population instead of hatred and so on. It has a narrator that becomes a character halfway through. The Lobsteris a textbook postmodern movie. David is terrified of his fate of becoming a lobster and terrified of having to court uninteresting women, yet cannot resign himself to either of these options. The hotel has many strict rules and residents can only match with someone with who they share a common trait : limping, occasional nosebleeds, psychopathic behavior, it doesn't have to make sense to work. The only way residents can extend their stay is by hunting " loners" who live in the woods and reject every possible forms of romance, so that they can be turned into animals. When David ( Colin Farrell) is dumped by his wife of eleven years, he is escorted to the hotel where romance is enforced on awkward and uninteresting singles like him. The story of The Lobsteris set in a dystopian society where single people are required by law to find a life partner in 45 days or else be transformed in an animal of their choice. If you're looking for an explanation of the movie, you're in the right place *. It's possible you end up hating The Lobster, but I believe my reasons for liking it are valid. Is it a good movie, though? This is a more difficult and personal question to answer, but I've enjoyed it. The Lobsteris cagey, impersonal and oddly whimsical at times, like a Wes Anderson movie suffering from a schizoaffective disorder. It had a short, quiet but respectable theater run despite going mostly unnoticed by mainstream audiences. I have no idea who he is and how he did that. Reilly, Rachel Weisz and other talented actors to feature in it. ![]() It was co-written and directed by a man named Yorgos Lanthimos, who somehow convinced Colin Farrell, John C. It's the opinion most people who have seen it since its release in 2015 tend to have. ![]()
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