Selfishness and inferiority entangled with love

Monserrate 2022-05-19 19:42:28

The biggest feeling after watching the movie:

The beauty of being in love and the beauty of being single are all lies

As long as you are persistent in love, whether you are persistent in loving or stubbornly rejecting love, you will be disappointed in the end.

In life, it is naive and foolish to be obsessed with wishful thinking and hand over the power of self-evaluation to another person.

Several truths revealed by the details of the film:

1. Being single is a sin.

Being single is not worthy of being human. In the urban tradition, if you are single, you will face police questioning, you will be placed in a hotel to be matched, and the match will be done under tight time, otherwise you will be turned into an animal. And if you go out into the forest, you will be beaten to death by the people living in the hotel, and the life of the escaped single person will be exchanged for the time of the hotel guest. In the movie, the hotel's small theater uses a person who will choke to death with food, burn the hands of the person who touches himself with a toaster, cannot use the hotel's double equipment, live in a smaller room, and can only enjoy the professional temptation of the waiter for a moment. The joy of life, but they can't get their sincere company... These scenes constantly emphasize the discrimination against singles: being single is miserable, and society constantly emphasizes that the happiness of living in the world must be given to you by the other half.

2. What is love?

Small commonalities bring us together, but small differences bring us apart.

Love is hopelessly selfish. It starts from satisfying one's imagination and fails to satisfy the flood of one's own desires.

In the movie, love begins with common ground. Some people choose to lie in order to escape and make people jump into the trap of their own love. Although they have no common ground, they choose to constantly break their noses and gain the common ground of "love nosebleeds". The male protagonist and the female protagonist are obviously in love, but the basis of their being together is "myopia", which makes them constantly make up their minds whether to separate or not to be blinded in the days when the female protagonist mistakenly thought they were blind. Your own eyes seek new common ground. Common ground is the starting point for two people to be together, and it is also an important key to maintain the relationship.

However, feelings are extremely fragile. Because of one thing, marriage cannot be built on lies: when the first successful wife killed the male protagonist's brother, the dog, the husband still cried weakly, which was a lie, and the relationship broke down in an instant, and death came. The waitress at the hotel risked her life to escape from her marriage for one simple reason: "I can't bear to live with this dentist any longer. Even if I only eat a little, he always forces me to brush my teeth." Being single A group of people rushed to the deck of the ship and asked the man in the hotel manager and his wife, who of the two of you can more tolerate living alone. The man said quickly, I am better, I am better! "Then shoot her!" In a shot of an empty bullet, the long live marriage advocated by the manager couple turned into pieces of heartbreak for the model couple in their selfish choices. This kind of sexual fragility is when the hero and heroine who seem to be the most loving, when the heroine mistakenly thinks that she is blind, the subconscious reaction is: "Why blind me, not him."

3. Love is a strong impulse and danger

In the sign language of the hero and heroine, the two most easily confused sentences are still fresh in my memory: "I love you forever" and "Be careful, we are in danger". These two sentences are a wonderful metaphor for love... The flip side of this hysterical sweetness and self-imagination is the danger when we're in the throes of some sort of romantic frenzy about love. And the charm of this ambiguous love has attracted people over and over again, so that when problems arise, people's solution is to send a child: "If there is a problem between you, we will send you a child, It was certified as a good solution to the problem."

4. Love is mean

Like the siege, whether in the city, in the hotel, or in the jungle, the male protagonist is always in the dark to choose things that he wants to not be allowed in the current environment. This kind of rebellious spirit is very It's hard to say whether it's a trick of fate or the dictates of life. No situation is entirely satisfying, and the film exaggerates this absurdity and anxiety through the vastly different systems of the two worlds. And people are constantly changing in it, constantly choosing their own new life.

No matter how you choose, you end up facing the same ending, turning into a lobster.

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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.