A well-matched utopia

Aidan 2022-09-28 20:29:53

What attracts me to this movie is the setting. Based on a certain time in the future, the history of love has also evolved, and people also have a concept of hierarchy in the emotional society. That is, being a pair is the embodiment of the value of life, and being alone is just the beginning of the degeneration of life. At the same time, in order to avoid the accidental drawbacks of this mechanism, a love test method is also established, which means the test of intimacy, so as to eliminate invalid or false love relationships. On the other hand, maintaining the sanctity of love is the foundation of social stability, so once within the time limit, if you are still single, you will be transformed into an animal according to the will of the single person, and after becoming an animal, you can still be paired or single. Just lost the will of their own people. During this period, if you want to maintain people's free will, you must match up, or capture single people with a sedative gun, and then gain points to increase the remaining time. In order to grasp the single people from both physical and psychological aspects, the manager first rehearsed a two-person life course similar to a model play, subtly understanding the benefits of the two-person life, and secondly, at the beginning of the check-in, let people live with one hand, appreciate the inconvenience, and even use a female The maid makes the man erect, but is not allowed to masturbate. This is a very utopian society. On the surface, it is for great beauty, but it is actually the best tool to restrain people. People are faced with the anxiety of oppression. Under such emotions, love is only a vassal, and survival is the priority.


It is in such a social environment that our male protagonist chooses lobster after a marriage change. Let's see how the male protagonist describes the lobster:






This shows that the character of the male protagonist is a person with self-concept. All choices are based on his own interests, hobbies, survival concepts, and have a certain degree of ego, and these affect all the decisions of the male protagonist later. First of all, he gave up the beautiful nosebleed girl. After experiencing the dancing dialogue, they fell into silence. Next, he also released the girl who jumped off the building with obvious sexual innuendo, and was very reluctant to talk to her. So, he finally identified the cold-blooded short-haired girl. What did he think in his heart:




Therefore, all the choices of the male protagonist are not what we are talking about now. , is self-like, self-like is even stronger than the character of the other party, because the short-haired woman is described by others as a ruthless woman, but the male protagonist doesn't care, and uses a series of small tricks to finally become a couple with the short-haired woman. But this kind of ideal love that seems to be the right match often cannot withstand the so-called blow. In order to test the male protagonist's sincerity, the short-haired woman killed the dog who was once the male protagonist's brother. Although the male protagonist tried to hide it, he was seen through , then anesthetized the short-haired girl, transformed her into some kind of animal, and fled into the depths of the forest, meeting the single group.


Here is another very interesting setting, that is, there are behaviors within the single group that cannot be ambiguous or intimate with others, and violators will be punished to varying degrees, including blood kisses and blood sex. Moreover, there are strict restrictions on listening to music, it must be electronic music type, everyone dances with headphones alone when dancing, so we can see very interesting and strange pictures:


Moreover, this kind of life It is very dangerous, to avoid being captured, and the living conditions are also very poor, so everyone has to dig a grave for themselves in advance, and no one will dig for you after death. Therefore, this group is the extreme opposite of the double life, and the subjective self of the individual has reached the point of autocracy.


But this is the case, the male protagonist still met the female protagonist, and met the female protagonist who was as short-sighted as himself, and the two fell in love with each other deeply to the point of being carried away. Even so, this kind of love is still based on the right match. If it is not myopia, the two will lose the basis of their identity. So in the latter part of the film, a man gives the woman a rabbit to eat. The man is very angry and asks if the man is short-sighted. In his heart, he is deeply afraid of the loss of this exclusive and unique foundation. Moreover, after the female lead was blinded by the female leader, the male lead still loved her in the early stage, but after a period of food delivery and object guessing games, the male lead lost his initial enthusiasm at all, he could only ask the female lead's blood type , I can only ask the hostess if she can speak German and some other aimless topics. It can be seen that the enthusiasm and interest of the male protagonist decreased immediately after the two had no unique common ground. At the end of the film, the two escaped from the forest and discussed in the restaurant that the male protagonist also blinded his eyes. Whether the Lord was blinded or not left open suspense.


There are also many details that describe the character of the male protagonist, such as going to the yacht to tell the lame man cheating on the nosebleed woman, and not killing the leader directly, but throwing it into the grave to feed the dog, all of which show that the male protagonist has a strong inner self-esteem Sex, anti-tolerance, and the revenge of negative energies.


Of course, my favorite is probably the little people in the film. My favorite is the blond girl. She is very proud of her hair, and in the dialogue with the male protagonist, she also politely rejected the male protagonist's suggestion. In the face of a little show-off friend nosebleed girl, she gave a loud slap directly, and at the same time chose to watch a movie on the last day. Such women exist in large numbers today, with distinct self-labels, not popular with other people in society, refusing to compromise, with strong self-will, any choice is light and transparent like flowing water .



This movie has a very strong metaphor. In modern society, if the appearance of men and women is excluded, it is the most important thing to be a good match, including education, family, economy, interests, etc. A series of common points represent the relationship between men and women to each other It is difficult to predict whether this identity includes sacrifice, faith and trust, and it is impossible to know how long the enthusiasm based on this existence will burn. Therefore, we will often see all kinds of bizarre behaviors, such as using the trumpet to test the fidelity of couples and so on. On the other hand, the existence of a unique soul is constantly under the oppression of public opinion, such as getting married and having children, and getting married as soon as possible is the way of life. Where is this not another utopian society for every human being?



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The Lobster quotes

  • Biscuit Woman: Can I come to your room sometime for a chat? I could give you a blowjob. Or you could just fuck me. I always swallow after fellatio and I've got absolutely no problem with anal sex if that's your thing. My ex-husband always used to say I had the most beautiful thighs he'd ever seen, but let's not talk about him.

  • Trainer Waiter - Shooting Range: It's no coincidence that the targets are shaped like single people and not couples.