Suppose you live in the world with only two ways of life: a partner system or a single system. The two factions do not make a river, and there is no middle ground. For example, there are many possibilities such as marriage, divorce, and so on.
In this case, how do you choose?
That's the theme of the movie "The Lobster."
But there is a premise that if you are single, then you are not eligible to step into the city life, you can only hide.
Well, in order to live decently, you choose a partner system, then you have to live in a hotel in the middle of the wilderness and find your significant other in 45 days.
The standard for judging the other half is very simple, that is, you must have something in common at a certain point, such as: both indifferent personalities, nose bleeding for no reason, both have the same talent, or both have the same disability, etc. . Any similarities, no matter how ridiculous, can be used as proof that you are truly in love.
This is a bit like the words of the matchmakers in the old society. The two parties never met before they got married. It was just that the parents of the two families weighed the degree of matching and decided to tie the lives of the two people together. A lot of marriage escapes, protests, quarrels, etc., of course, there are also people who accidentally meet eyes, or those who meet with a generous heart and accept the arrangement of fate don't care about love or not.
This is also a bit like contemporary parents, telling their children how many years before they must get married, you must complete this task within a certain limit in your life, and as for who the other party is, as long as they meet certain conditions, they can be matched. Be your other half. Now that I think about it, I am terrified.
If the time is up and you haven't found it, you'll be shot, and you'll be banished to the woods as the animal you thought you wanted to be, and once the hunters come to the woods, you'll be someone else's table meal.
Isn't this extreme and perverted consequence terrible? Its establishment is not the emotion of two people, but using life and death as a bargaining chip.
In order to promote the beauty of the companionship system, the hotel also performed live performances. For example, if a man choked on food alone, he could only raise his pigtails, but if a woman was sitting across from him, he could help you take pictures behind the back and cough out the choked food; It is easy to encounter obscene behavior on the road, but if there is a man standing next to him, the obscene person will not even look at him. A good partner is a good partner, and a partner is the best.
In order to avoid death, some people just bleed their noses to match up with girls who bleed naturally, proving that they are true love made in heaven. But there are also people who choose to die, with the attitude of a strong man cutting his wrists. Love is unattainable, and marriages that are not based on mutual love are hooligans, so they would rather die than give in.
And because this kind of marriage with a ridiculous combination of reasons has no basis for love, the hotel arranged for them a child in order to reduce the contradiction between the husband and wife.
This is somewhat of a reflection of modern life: how many couples are still tied together for the sake of their children, even after they have no feelings for their children. They pretend to have a complete family for their children, but they are actually afraid to bear the cost of living alone.
Our hero David came to this hotel after a 12-year marriage. He was carrying a dog that was transformed by his brother's failed courtship. There are people who have no feelings for him, and there are fearless players who he throws an olive branch and would rather die than die.
Generally speaking, people who are used to the partner system are not used to single life, because people will feel a sense of loss after the balance is out of balance. Seeing that the time passed day by day but the candidate for the partner was not found, the protagonist was also silently anxiously watching around.
But when asked what animal he wanted to be, he chose lobster. The reason is that the lobster is loyal to his partner, insists on monogamy, and can live for more than a hundred years, and he also loves the ocean.
So he is still an emotional person. However, life here is extremely depressing, everyone is just a symbol, and they can get more days to live by killing another person, and people are indifferent and ruthless.
But our protagonist is not stupid. It is important to save his life first. Love or not is more important than life, so he searched the hotel and found a cold-blooded and ruthless woman, without any joys or sorrows, and regardless of anyone's life or death, Even if a person dies in front of her, she will not reach out to save someone. He was insensitive when she was choking on something, so he got her approval and got married.
But he is not an unintentional person after all. This perverted woman, after killing his brother, looked at the dog on the ground and the blood splattered all over the ground. He turned on the tap and cried silently, and was finally exposed by her. He went to be punished, so he killed her to avenge her brother and fled. Crazy, crazy, how can you stay in such an inhumane hotel, you have to leave.
The unsuitable people are forced to be bound together, which is simply suffering, so our male protagonist escaped from one camp to another: the loners. In modern parlance it is celibacy.
Here, men and women can only communicate normally and unambiguously. Once adultery is found, they will be punished. If they find an improper kiss, they will have to shut their mouths. Even dancing, everyone can only wear headphones. Listening to electronic music and dancing alone, since it is good to be single, cut off all thoughts and live a good life.
But the hero David accidentally met his beloved and began to run away.
At the beginning, the two of them can hide it, but love is something that cannot be hidden. It will be revealed from some details. When they dress up as a couple and go out on the street, they can't help showing their appreciation for each other, and when they kiss, they get carried away. , let the head of the single gang see it, and arranged for the woman to have an operation to blind her eyes.
Toutou is not because it is really shameful to love each other, but she has already seen through the fragility and powerlessness of the so-called love.
When she rushed to the room where she was looking for her partner, the hotel manager and her husband, and asked who was staying in the middle of the night, when the manager's husband chose to shoot his wife and found that it was an empty bullet, she used cruel reality to those who believed that love was supreme. A precious lesson, there is no such thing as an oath, it is just to get what we need for each other, to fly separately when disaster strikes, and to pretend to be affectionate in the same bed and different dreams.
By the way, both of them are short-sighted, so this is one of the reasons why their true love is made in heaven and it remains in the mind of a man. He once rushed in front of others because he suspected that another man was also short-sighted and opened his eyes, up and down. He looked around carefully, and didn't care that others explained that he was not shortsighted. He had to think that others were wearing contact lenses. He didn't stop until he realized that he had made a mistake, but he was relieved that no one would compete with him for true love.
But now that the heroine is out of sight, David starts to get anxious, and the only link of true love that binds them together is gone.
He was caught in a predicament, should he continue to run away with her, or should he stop and look for it again? This dilemma is as tangled as Li Chen's question of whether to break up with Fan Bingbing's tax issue.
But love comes first, he is still a person with rich feelings after all, he chooses to take her away, but he is obsessed with the commonality between his partners, so he decides to self-mutilate his eyes.
The story ends in the restaurant where the woman seems to be testing David as a trick without actually going blind, because when he was leaving to cut his eyes, the woman suddenly looked at the waiter who came to add water and said thank you, and looked out the window . The story came to an abrupt end.
This story goes to two extremes, but the fact that being single may really become a dog makes people feel chills down their spines.
The human heart is the most unpredictable, because the human heart is the most fickle and the most fragile. In the face of reality, it is almost difficult to resist the temptation of the outside world. It is not that it is not loving enough, it is not loving, it is the ability that cannot be reached, and the individual is too small in the context of the big era. .
So, please at least make sure that we are in love when we are together. As for how long we can love, one day is one day.
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