The time is set in a utopian society. The male protagonist is dumped by his wife who has been married for twelve years. He is single and has to take his brother, a dog, to the hotel in the city to find a new partner.
The rules of the hotel are that each single man and woman must find a mate of the same kind in the hotel within forty-five days, otherwise they will be turned into a kind of animal exile forest. If it fails, the male protagonist says that he wants to become a lobster, which is also the origin of the movie's name.
When the male protagonist eats, he observes whether the characteristics of the single women around him match him: some like nosebleeds, some like scallion biscuits, and some are very indifferent. The male protagonist also met a lame man and a fat man.
The hotel regularly takes singles to the forest to hunt and let them hunt each other or other people with sedative guns.
In order not to be turned into an animal, the lame smashed his nose in secret, so that he and the nosebleed girl found something in common, and the pair were successful. The couple will live in the couple's room, and then spend two weeks alone on the yacht, before passing the test and leaving to go back to life in the city.
The woman with scallion biscuits committed suicide by jumping from the first floor because she could not find a match, and she was half dead.
The male protagonist thought that if he didn't get off the list quickly, the ending would be miserable, so he targeted indifferent women. The indifferent girl pretended to be choked, but the male protagonist didn't help, and the two were paired successfully because of the same indifference.
But the indifferent girl brutally killed the male protagonist's brother, the dog. With the help of the waiter, the male protagonist shot the indifferent girl, escaped from the hotel, and ran into the forest.
There are a large number of singles hiding in the forest. The leader is a blonde woman. She accepts the male protagonist and tells him the rules: All singles here cannot have feelings between each other, otherwise, according to their nature, they will suffer blindness, blood kisses, blood Sentence.
A few days later, the male protagonist accidentally met a fat man who had organized a group to hunt. The fat man was going to kill the male protagonist in order to live a few more days. At this time, the heroine appeared, and she was also a member of the Forest Singles Alliance. The female protagonist stabbed the fat man in the leg, and the male protagonist shot him and stripped the fat man of his clothes.
In order to repay the heroine's rescue, the hero hunted a rabbit for the heroine. Since then, the male protagonist and the female protagonist have been taking care of each other continuously, and they are pleasantly surprised to find that they have one thing in common: they are both short-sighted. The two hearts are getting closer.
The League of Singles was about to attack the hotel at night. The male protagonist volunteered to go to the crippled family on the yacht and told the crippled girl who loved nosebleeds that she had deceived her. In fact, they were not suitable at all. As a result, he was kicked out by the lame family.
After returning to the forest, the male protagonist and the female protagonist became attracted to each other and became more and more in love. They even planned to take the opportunity to escape back to the city to live. However, a diary revealed their affair, and the female leader decided to deal with them.
The female leader asked the male protagonist to dig a grave and lie in it to reflect on it. At the same time, she brought the female protagonist to the city and let the doctor blind her.
The male protagonist comes to accompany the blind female protagonist every day, and gradually he finds that the two sides have less and less in common, and they are a little bored and worried.
One afternoon, the male protagonist knocked out the female leader from behind, tied her hands and feet, and threw her into the grave to feed the wild dogs. And he and the heroine escaped from the forest and ran to the city.
In a restaurant, the two sat opposite each other. Since it is a partner, the female protagonist is blind, but the male protagonist is only short-sighted. He was wondering whether he should blind himself and the heroine's life? Finally, he went into the bathroom with a knife, and the hostess waited in the seat. At this point, the movie ends.
Undoubtedly, this is a masterpiece full of absurdity. In a utopian society, every single person cannot die well. The film puts the single person at the bottom of the food chain. No one cares if a single person is choked to death while eating alone. It is easy to walk alone. Rape, single people will dig their own graves, suspected single people will be questioned and arrested by the police in the city, single people who have been turned into animals are wandering around in the forest, all single people are transforming or hiding, even at the beginning of the movie A woman found a single mule and immediately killed it. Singles are not allowed in this world.
So people's only pursuit is not to be single, but their criteria for finding a partner are so shallow: both sides are short-sighted, indifferent, both lame, or nosebleed.
Even if you know that the other person is cheating in order to get married (such as a cripple), you still have to pretend to be in love. If there is a problem in the marriage, the organization will issue a child to solve the couple's problems.
In a word, the film shows all kinds of extreme experiences of single people, reflects all kinds of strange appearances in society, satirizes and criticizes marriage and social customs, and exposes human nature and power. Of course, there are also a lot of cold humor outside the serious discussion, which makes people smile, and it is highly recommended.
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