I was happy watching The Lobster, very, very happy. There were several scenes where I sat up straight and giggled desperately, or set off a big love spark in my heart. The movie is depressingly out of place and endearingly endearing.
The plot is in a certain alternate time and space. People who fail in love will be sent to a beautiful shelter. If you cannot find a suitable lover within 44 days, you will become a contract according to the contract you signed with the agency. The animal you want to be. Then the protagonist Farrow said that if he failed, he wanted to become a lobster. The story begins.
I like the way it ends, the movie has a lot of lingering melody. When Rachel Weisz showed up I thought about when was the last time I saw her, and then I remembered her looking at the mummy's face. The surprise was to find Léa Seydoux in the second half of the film. During the post-screening discussion, I swiped my phone while listening and found that Ariane Labed, the beautiful maid, is the director's wife. Both she and the director speak bad English.
Someone raises their hand and asks you if your relationship fails and you want to become an animal, what do you want to be?
The director answered cheerfully: I want to become a bird. (I guess he's been asked this question countless times) Rachel Weisz wants to be a British girl's miniature horse, Ariane Lebed says: My answer is boring I want to be a cat. Well, good answer.
I don't know what animal I want/I can become. In fact, I kind of want to be an orangutan in the rainforest, or a big wild boar.
Another episode of watching the movie that day was when Deb and I found Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach and De Palma sitting together, about ten rows in front of us, at the film festival to watch a movie together. It's great that you're in this theater too.
(There is a way for people to express their love like this, don’t hug and don’t disturb, take a camera and take pictures in the air when you think about it. There is a way to convey feelings without material, without eye contact, I am very happy to hear Enough of you saying that)
For me to be able to see the New York Film Festival from the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is already a very incredible thing. When I watched the movie, I thought, I didn't think about anything, I just kept giggling. To be able to simply watch an interesting movie as a viewer, with other viewers or even other directors (clapping hands together, smiling, gasping, meditating in beautiful scenes). It's so good to live, and the art is so beautiful.
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Postscript:
also saw Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos fill in Taiwan, Wen Qing circle famous Dogtooth / canine home after. I think The Lobster's story content and character interactions are more layered in design than Dogtooth. It's just that after watching two films, I feel that the director keeps an open option shot at the end of each time, which seems a bit lazy.
Rather than handing over the interpretation of the story to the viewer, sometimes I prefer the creator's willful operation.
(If Colin Farrow walked out of a restaurant at the end, the camera stopped at Rachel Weisz's profile, and Ferrell's tiny figure outside the window. Then I would give him number one on the list of 2015 movies.)
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