The Lobster (2015)

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.



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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.
 
Basically making sure the sheeple stick to the program... drugs or other inducements are utilized to facilitate this acceptance, but anyone not sticking to the program has to be disposed of... and it seems even the psychopaths stick to the program, if for nothing else but to keep the game of life going.... Is this about it? And again, we have another project depicting how psychopathic our society has become... ridiculed and laughed at, but accepted as the norm nevertheless. :zzz: zombies basically... but it is our situation here in Purgatory... a prison of the mind, and thusly the body is the instrument of most programmed controls.... accept the program or suffer the consequences.... pass the drugs please!

But then I haven't seen it! :lol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lobster
This wiki summary of the plot sure illustrates the comic substrate of present day Europe, which the music gave away in the few couple of seconds in the clip... this well illustrates where they've gone from Wodehouse's Mr. Jeeves to present day psychopathic disfuntionality. :shock: And here in the States, it isn't much different with our 'Modern Families', zombie shows and Middle Ages disfunctionality shows as well as the usual life in the beltway shows... disfunctional types everywhere you go, so of course, it shows up in our disfunctional mainsteam media... a closed loop it seems.

Beware of laughing too much at these characters, as soon you'll be laughing with them at yourself.... as you become one with them... and perhaps that is the mission of these projects? No one really escapes, the maze or matrix just reboots the same program in a slightly different environment, but all the core programs remain in place. End-times wonderland? Learn to love your disfunctional distopia? ;)
 
Seen this movie while ago and thought it was total waste of time.
But that's just me - these days I find very few movies fulfilling. This one hasn't offered any inspiration just jaded feelings.
I am all for nice Kafkian plot - but this seemed like completely pointless exercise :(
 
Z said:
But that's just me - these days I find very few movies fulfilling.
;) Yes, yes, I feel your pain! I'm left looking for tidbits here and there in one form or another... most of this American stuff seems to be pyschopathic propaganda or psycho-porn for the masses.... who love it, can't get enough of it, though this one seems too intellectually oriented for that mass crowd, but prop porn is needed for every type, and it seems these projects always find funding... interesting that is. :D

It isn't that some aren't 'filling', some are, but too much sugary special effects, violence oriented action crap like some video game... Pokeman GO!!! :lol: Dude! people are eating this shit up, it's simply unreal to watch the audience before the final curtain close. Mindlessness is everywhere.... simply everywhere, so of course it finds its proper expression in the 'arts'. Intellectual porn some of these seem to be... same with our markets... the dope is so bad, but there's so much of it and none of the addicts want the high to ever end.... dissociation is everywhere... wishful thinking by default. :cool2:
 
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