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Today, we plucked up the courage to cook a hard dish - lobster. The process of handling the lobster made Qi Lai and Zhu Zhu Hua Rong lose their color. One was in charge of handing the knife and the other was in charge of yelling. Only Orange was the only one who made shrimp online. Quickly click on the video with us and open it to watch Orange Brother online battle lobster. !
"The Lobster", also known as "Save the Single Dog Project" , the film tells the story of people setting up a hotel dedicated to accommodating all kinds of "single dogs", whether they are broken up, widowed, or leftover men and women, all registration Registered and sent here. Here, the "singles" will have 45 days to play match-up. The successful pairing can return to the human city with their lover; the unsuccessful pairing will be turned into an animal.
Three main venues: hotel, forest and city
Hotel: The hotel to the city is like a "mass production couple" assembly line. The hotel is the end of the conveyor belt. After being scanned and transformed by the naked eye of senior technicians, singles are exported into couples. Those who did not successfully match were discarded as defective products. This assembly line runs day and night. In order to achieve efficient production, the hotel has established a standardized process and set a 45-day ddl.
Cities: Cities are the other end of the assembly line . The manufactured standardized products are all exported to the city and screened by a strict quality management system to prevent the "fish slipping through the net" from being mixed into the standardized products.
Forest: The forest is like a dog paradise . People who don't want to fall in love or who can't fall in love escape into the forest to avoid the eyes of the world. But life in the paradise is not as happy as it seems on the surface. People who are forced to enter the forest by the director of the single dog paradise cannot fall in love. Such paradise has become the opposite extreme of the couple factory.
three story parts
The first part is about the single life of the man and his so-called friends in a hotel. This part mainly provides the main background of the movie, that is, if you don't fall in love, you become an animal . This forced relationship setting, while seemingly absurd, aptly satirizes the problem of discrimination against singles in today's society. Through the story of the male protagonist living in a single hotel with his brother who has turned into a dog, he teases the default rules of modern society such as "only when you are in love can you have happiness", "can you become a partner when you have something in common", and "can you live with a partner" .
The second part tells about the director's successful satire on the marital status of a large part of the society. The male protagonist pretends to be ruthless and wants to be paired with a cold-blooded woman who is equally ruthless. This kind of marriage without understanding is reminiscent of the "divorce cooling-off period" , which is designed to reduce the domestic divorce rate. The reasons why people want to divorce are that they no longer love each other, don’t know each other enough, and even the original union is urged by relatives and friends around them, so that they give up themselves to cater to others like the male protagonist. Therefore , during the cooling-off period of divorce, the other party who is no longer in love cannot divorce freely. Will the final result not only not reduce the divorce rate but increase the mortality rate?
The third part tells the story of the male protagonist who begins to think at the other extreme after entering the forest . Just as singles are rejected in hotels, people living in the forest are blind admirers of singleism who reject love. They cannot accept flirting, hugging, kissing, or marrying, otherwise they will be punished with severe punishment like cutting off their lips. The director of Single Dog Paradise adheres to the slogan of "showing love and dying quickly", implements the policy of "no love is light, single is an elite", and is determined to carry out singleness to the end. But there are policies and countermeasures below. The male protagonist still has a person he likes in the single forest. Sadly, the male protagonist also insists on finding a partner from the common ground. He looks for a female protagonist who is also short-sighted. The head of the garden frowned under his eyelids, and from time to time he used body language to transmit wireless signals.
In addition to the irony of some details, it also satirizes a criterion of modern society for people's pursuit of happiness, that is, extreme judgment . The only difference in the film is the pair of lame man and nosebleed woman. The lame man deliberately broke his nose and sprinkled ketchup on his body because he liked the heroine. This is a kind of search for common ground. extreme judgment. The hotel believes that if there is a conflict between husband and wife, assigning a child can solve the problem, and the child can be a means of maintaining the stability of the partnership.
Understanding of the title of "The Lobster"
Pig : "I think this is the protagonist's halo. He wants to become a lobster, so the title is lobster. The reason is very simple, because lobsters can live for a hundred years and have the special function of maintaining fertility forever. The blood is blue and aristocratic."
Orange : "This topic reminds me of the "Friends" I watched recently. In the film, Phoebe said that once a lobster falls in love, it will grow old together, and old lobster couples will walk in the fish tank with their claws. It also shows that what the male protagonist desires is not a relationship that is forcibly matched without true love, but a relationship that can be loved forever."
Qiqi : "I think the movie is using a lobster as a metaphor for people who can't even blink as a natural reaction in the movie. The love, sexual impulse, etc. presented in this film, all instinctive reactions are like blinking, and this kind of The sense of existence is precisely the instinct of human beings. If this is also to be deprived and restrained, it is better to be a lobster who cannot blink.
Understanding the ending of "The Lobster"
At the end of the film, when the heroine takes off her sunglasses, she can see things. She continues to act to see the sincerity of the hero, that is to say, how much she is willing to pay. In the diner, she could see by looking at the waiter's eyes twice, the first time she was pretending to be blind, and she was only looking in one direction. The second time the waiter poured water, she looked into the waiter's eyes to say thank you, watched the waiter leave accurately, and then looked at the scenery outside. This tells the audience that she can see it. And there is a black screen at the end of the film for a long time, which is the change of vision after blindness, and can't see anything, so because the heroine is not blind, the hero is blind, and they have nothing in common, so the hero becomes Lobster .
Here is the "One Meal Movie" jointly run by three girls who study film: Orange, Qiqi, and Zhu Zhu.
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