The Lobster: A Dystopian Tour de Force (A Movie About Adult Singles)

The Lobster: A Dystopian Tour de Force (A Movie About Adult Singles)

(Link): The Lobster: A Dystopian Tour de Force (A Movie About Adult Singles) by C. Orr

• Yorgos Lanthimos’s allegorical rumination on finding a mate is witty, cruel, and deeply unsettling.
• …Thus opens The Lobster, the stunning English-language debut of the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. A black comedy laced with moments of shocking cruelty, the film is a dystopian allegory about the human need to find a mate—a brilliant, if morbid, meditation on relationships in the age of the dating app.
  

•  [Being single is against the law in the city in the movie. People who are single from divorce or whatever reason are forced to stay in a Hotel and get 45 days to find a mate from among the other Hotel residents. If they do not find a mate in the allotted time, they are turned into an animal of their choosing. One guy chooses Lobster, but most people choose to become a Dog.]
• …. The latter  [dart guns] are for the guests’ regular forays into the adjacent woods, during which they hunt down “loners”—that is, unattached singles who’ve fled from society’s marital mandate.
• The hotel staff also pantomime skits extolling the virtues of couplehood: A man eating alone might choke on his food, but one with a wife will be saved; a woman walking alone might be raped, but one with a husband will be protected.

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