Brain-inspiring director "reactionary" film

Earnest 2022-12-29 10:06:04

It's serious nonsense, and it's hard to guard against scaring people. This is my intuitive feeling about the Greek director Ougs Lansmos's film.

"Lobster" directed by him became popular in China last year because it was promoted by some marketing accounts on Weibo on the eve of Singles’ Day. It was introduced: In the future, people who are single will be a crime and will be arrested and forced to spouse. The time limit is about to become an animal of your choice, and it will be called a funny comedy, but I can guarantee that few people who are recommended to watch and hope to be funny will laugh, and maybe after watching it There will be lingering fears, and his movie posters are also extremely deceptive dreams.



Ougs Lansmos’s films are like political fables, not explicit dystopian novels like "1984", nor the cruel futuristic technological world of "Black Mirror", and this is also his brilliant At the same time, he inherited the external aesthetic scenery of Angelopoulos, his predecessor in his country, and he has the spiritual core of self-control. Many people interpret his films from the perspectives of dystopia and black humor, but there are too many to avoid aesthetic fatigue. I think it is enough for people to feel a little fear after watching them, and I also hope to show some of what he brings After all, the vigilant significance of these images is enormous.



The "Dog Tooth" before "Lobster" is also a grotesque setting. The three children were imprisoned at home by their parents since childhood and were not allowed to go out. The world outside the door was emphasized by the father as a taboo place, only as a canine tooth ( Huya) has to go out after shedding. Seeing this, you may already understand that this is a story about a small utopia.

During the period, the quirky plot can only make the viewers depressed and even nauseous:

Salt is called "the phone"


Bitches stand for "headlights"


Zombies are "little yellow flowers"


**It's actually a "keyboard"


The all-time mental control is exquisitely replaced by naked language.

Water bottle label torn by father


"Movies" are childhood videos of children who have been watched countless times


The plane in the sky is understood as a toy that can be taken down by the mother


A cat killed because his son had never seen it, but his father described it as the most dangerous in the world


Exactly stifling all the connections between the house and the outside world, the father even let him choose between his sister and younger sister in order to satisfy his son's desires.



The brothers and sisters also play games of mutual anesthesia, games of soaking fingers in hot water than endurance, and games of finding mothers all over the world blindfolded; the sisters follow the primitive era creed of bartering; ...

Various All kinds of brain holes will appear all the time, and the viewer will only be pushed into the abyss step by step without a chance to breathe, and when the eldest daughter escapes from the compound but does not escape from the father’s trunk, the final blank close-up From the camera, everything came to an abrupt halt, even though people were reined from the precipice, leaving a huge void.

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Extended Reading

Dogtooth quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mother: The new words of the day are: "Sea", "Highway", "Road trip" and "Shotgun".

  • [subtitled version]

    [last lines]

    Father: If you don't drink your orange juice while it's fresh, it's no use.