Your singleness is not just a thought at the dinner table of your elders, it has become a serious social issue; if you are still single, widowed or divorced as an adult, you will become an outlier in this society, a mainstream person Objects of social exclusion and focus; you will be sent to a special hotel where you will be paired within a set time before you can leave, if that fails, the hotel's operating room will transform you into an animal, of course you can treat the animal's Categories make choices, and that's the horror of The Lobster.
The male protagonist, David, was locked in a hotel because his wife cheated on him and was forced to divorce. He was only accompanied by his brother who had turned into a dog. Here you can dance, swim, and feast, but most importantly: all occupants must be paired within the allotted 45 days, or hunt the strays in the forest in exchange for an extended time. Here, all the regulations are made by the powerful, no matter how absurd and unreasonable it may seem, and ordinary people can only adapt and enforce them.
The stipulated 45 days passed day by day, David participated in training, socializing and hunting every day, but "love" could not be limited to a specific time and space, nor could it be matched according to the stipulated requirements. Although there are also successful cases in the hotel, the daily training camp is extremely simple and straightforward to tell everyone how dangerous and terrible being alone is - "A violent power machine can successfully rule or function smoothly, relying to a large extent on The ideological state apparatus provides some kind of convincing legitimizing representation not only that the ruler's rule is legitimate, but also persuades the ruled to accept their respective status and destiny, especially those that are less than desirable."
The remaining time is getting shorter and shorter, and people's fear and anxiety are getting stronger. The brutal person obtains time extension again and again through hunting; the cowardly person is in a murmur, moving towards the collapse of the spirit and the demise of life; the cynic achieves the so-called matching success through self-injury. In this absurd world, everyone must adapt to the established social rules, hurt others or distort themselves to achieve the so-called matchmaking success, in order to win the approval of those in power (hotel managers) and the possibility of returning to the mainstream society, the losers can only Towards mutation (mind and body) or death, there is no escape and no escape.
In order to seize the last chance to be a man, David is successfully paired with a bloodthirsty female killer. It didn't take long for him to discover that his brother, who had turned into a dog, was brutally murdered by her. In grief and anger, the male protagonist knocked the female killer unconscious and dragged him into the animal mutation room. A person who has long lost his soul, what is the difference between living and animals.
Fleeing from the hotel in a hurry, David became a wanderer in the forest - the object of daily hunting by himself and his companions in the hotel. The homeless in the forest have their own organization and program, and they believe in a set of marriage and love views that are diametrically opposed to mainstream values—absolute singleness, in order to demonstrate their own spirit of resistance. However, emotions are always higher than the dogma. A person cannot fall in love with the specified person at the specified time and environment, and the unexpected arrival of true love occurs in the environment of "singleism" - David fell in love with A beautiful woman with glasses who is slightly myopic in the singles group. In order to escape the cruel punishment of the single organization, the two carefully hide their love affair with each other, but they are exposed in an involuntary kiss. In fact, the stifling of emotions is as terrible as the limitation of emotions. They are all attempts to use power and institutions to limit the development of people's emotions and deprive people of their freedom of choice. They are all extreme concrete expressions of the trampling of human nature by totalitarian rule. A shallow depiction of a dystopian society.
With the exposure of the two people's romance, the leader of the single organization blinded the eyes of the short-sighted beauty in the laser treatment and prepared to strangle the two. After the hero and heroine finally escaped from the single organization, the picture of walking hand in hand in the tumbling sea of weeds has become the most beautiful poetic implication of this film, the resistance and escape of centralization, the pursuit and yearning for freedom, the surging waves in the heart Rolling like a field.
At the end of the film, the hero and heroine are in the restaurant, saying their last goodbyes before the "darkness", and then the hero gets up with a knife and walks to the bathroom, ready to poke his eyes out - in order to successfully match with his beloved woman, because in the ridiculous In the mainstream values of the two, there is no obvious similarity between the two, and they cannot be a couple at all. Even if there are lovers in the end, they will pay a heavy price for each other. Although the film gives an open ending, it is obvious that the hero David has changed from an initial compromise to a complete resistance: rebellion and escape from all authoritarian rule, finding true love, not in Within a limited time and scope, in order to protect each other, end wandering, and reintegrate into mainstream society, even if they blind themselves. "Darkness" is coming, and "light" will stay in their hearts forever.
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