A dystopian fictional story,
But enough to make the audience shudder.
Because of the brutal setting of the overhead,
It is confirmed everywhere in real life.
In this society, only those who have concluded marriages are accepted by the mainstream.
Singleness is a social problem.
Those who are single need to be returned to the concentration camps, and the matching will be coordinated.
The rules for pairing are:
You and your significant other must have one thing in common.
(For example, both are short-sighted, and both are lame)
A marriage that is combined in this way "will last forever".
The society constructed in this way is "harmonious and stable".
If you can't find a partner within the stipulated time,
The single person will be reduced from human to animal.
The rulers of the concentration camps offered both kindness and power:
While imposing severe punishment on the behavior of "not thinking about progress",
(e.g. masturbating instead of finding a partner)
While publicizing and educating "how good the marriage system is".
(For example, if you choked while eating alone, no one cares about you...
But if you have a partner, someone will save you! )
(Look at Sister Jian's digression: In fact, the "Heimlich Maneuver" also has a self-help version. Even if a person chokes on food, he can actively save himself. Don't give up the treatment!)
The film develops here,
Ben has successfully criticized the oppression of the single group by the marriage system.
But the script didn't stop there.
But a backhand satire on absolute singletons...
More interestingly,
At the end, it seems to get rid of the shackles of the camp,
The male and female protagonists who give up only for true love,
In the end, there is no escape from the torture of human selfish desires.
This layer-by-layer progression stimulates the over-coded plot,
Building a beautiful black allegory.
Behind the seemingly absurd setting.
What is questioned is the conventions of the real society:
With the same background experience, are they destined to match?
If you choose to be in pairs or single, are you chasing individual happiness, or are you submissive to a certain norm and looking forward to that little sense of security in a group?
Even if you get rid of social norms, is the person you think you love unrestrained, secretly putting love and your own interests on both ends of the scale and carefully weighing them?
And yourself, isn't it?
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