Divide by Zero
The Living Force
The Lobster seemed interesting when I was looking at the list of films at a local Indie movie place.
It is a world where single people are forced to find partners within a specified time period. If they do not find a partner, they get transformed into an animal of their choosing. We follow Colin Farrell's character David, who is not having much luck or motivation to find a partner.
SPOILER ALERT::::::!!!!!
I was shocked to see David go and choose the psychopathic woman as his first partner. He gains her approval by pretending to be psychopathic, because he himself is cold and dull- not trying to socialize or feel for others. His friend actually fakes a nosebleed condition in order to match up with a woman who suffers from nose bleeds. Despite lying, he did it to connect to her. David did worse, yet exposes him later on- what a hipocrite!
His psycho new wife ends up killing his brother- who is now his dog- by kicking him over and over, in order to expose David as a faker. It's scary that this behavior is accepted in this society. It kind of explains why most of the people are so numb, cold, and avoidant. It's basically a hotel full of autistic people forced to socialize, playing mind games with eachother because of a lack of empathy or trust.
David decides to transform his new psycho wife by shooting her with a dart and taking her into the transformation chamber with the help of a maid who works with an outside group that lives in the woods.
We find out that this outside group is as cold and strict as the hotel group, strongly against any romantic or affectionate feelings. David falls in love with a woman who is like him, "short sighted woman" played by Rachel Weisz. Rachel's character falls for him too. At some point the outsider leader, who is also psychopathic finds out about their plan to escape to the city and destroys their plan. She blinds the woman by setting her up with a fake vision improvement surgery. David and his love start losing a connection, as they lost their common trait, but they still escape after David kills the psycho leader in the same way that she threatened him, by making her lay in a grave and having the wild dogs come and eat her. It was kind of strange at how calmly he did this, very cold and calculating, despite him not being a directly mean or vindictive person. David and the blind woman leave to the city where he decides to blind himself to be able to connect to her. He goes into a bathroom with a steak knife and the movie ends. We don't know whether he did it or not.
What was the most depressing and backwards part of the movie was that everyone needed to find something exactly in common to fall for each other. There was no such thing as the normal human trait of looking for love in someone that has features that you may not have or not think you have (which in itself can be vampiric too but less cold).
This whole movie made me feel a bit confused, because almost every character was so unlike how I would do things. It was like seeing through the eyes of zombies and psychopaths playing games with eachother. It also kind of explains the issues I myself have had with the few dates that I went on. A lot of people here in NYC seem to be focused on having common hobbies or activities (a lot of times partying or drinking) which of course, is not wise knowing the health concerns. Plus, this focus on having exactly the same beliefs is kind of childish and backwards. What really matters is being able to communicate and have feedback, which is lacking and is kind of depressing- like this movie.
If it wasn't happening out there, the movie would be less scary, but the way things are going it was spooky at where we could be headed with more technology and societal control.
It is a world where single people are forced to find partners within a specified time period. If they do not find a partner, they get transformed into an animal of their choosing. We follow Colin Farrell's character David, who is not having much luck or motivation to find a partner.
SPOILER ALERT::::::!!!!!
I was shocked to see David go and choose the psychopathic woman as his first partner. He gains her approval by pretending to be psychopathic, because he himself is cold and dull- not trying to socialize or feel for others. His friend actually fakes a nosebleed condition in order to match up with a woman who suffers from nose bleeds. Despite lying, he did it to connect to her. David did worse, yet exposes him later on- what a hipocrite!
His psycho new wife ends up killing his brother- who is now his dog- by kicking him over and over, in order to expose David as a faker. It's scary that this behavior is accepted in this society. It kind of explains why most of the people are so numb, cold, and avoidant. It's basically a hotel full of autistic people forced to socialize, playing mind games with eachother because of a lack of empathy or trust.
David decides to transform his new psycho wife by shooting her with a dart and taking her into the transformation chamber with the help of a maid who works with an outside group that lives in the woods.
We find out that this outside group is as cold and strict as the hotel group, strongly against any romantic or affectionate feelings. David falls in love with a woman who is like him, "short sighted woman" played by Rachel Weisz. Rachel's character falls for him too. At some point the outsider leader, who is also psychopathic finds out about their plan to escape to the city and destroys their plan. She blinds the woman by setting her up with a fake vision improvement surgery. David and his love start losing a connection, as they lost their common trait, but they still escape after David kills the psycho leader in the same way that she threatened him, by making her lay in a grave and having the wild dogs come and eat her. It was kind of strange at how calmly he did this, very cold and calculating, despite him not being a directly mean or vindictive person. David and the blind woman leave to the city where he decides to blind himself to be able to connect to her. He goes into a bathroom with a steak knife and the movie ends. We don't know whether he did it or not.
What was the most depressing and backwards part of the movie was that everyone needed to find something exactly in common to fall for each other. There was no such thing as the normal human trait of looking for love in someone that has features that you may not have or not think you have (which in itself can be vampiric too but less cold).
This whole movie made me feel a bit confused, because almost every character was so unlike how I would do things. It was like seeing through the eyes of zombies and psychopaths playing games with eachother. It also kind of explains the issues I myself have had with the few dates that I went on. A lot of people here in NYC seem to be focused on having common hobbies or activities (a lot of times partying or drinking) which of course, is not wise knowing the health concerns. Plus, this focus on having exactly the same beliefs is kind of childish and backwards. What really matters is being able to communicate and have feedback, which is lacking and is kind of depressing- like this movie.
If it wasn't happening out there, the movie would be less scary, but the way things are going it was spooky at where we could be headed with more technology and societal control.