When freshly baked Singles arrive in the hotel, then them of their hands tied behind their backs for 24 hours. They should remember how much easier life is when it is rejected for two. That sounds cruel and educational value at the same time. Yes, it is, the relationship dictatorship that the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has devised for his first English-language film.
The rules in “The Lobster” are simple people who are not in a relationship to be, for 45 days in the hotel, it simply means “The Hotel”, admitted, in order to find a new partner. If they fail that one operates it into an animal of their choice. But that was no reason to be sad, as the hotel manager helpful declared finally have to again find as such the chance to find a partner. Well then.
Even David, schmerbäuchig, mustachioed and great played by Colin Farrell, is single. His wife has left him. As an animal he chooses the eponymous Hummer, “because they are over 100 years old, have blue blood like aristocrats and a life are long fruitful”. He also likes the sea. The hotel he does not like. The single program there is more Bundesrechnungshof as AIDA ship.
With butter cookies you can not find a man
There are daily round of introductions, which explain the new “guests” which physical feature makes them particularly suitable. There is the Limping (Ben Whishaw), the lisping (John C. Reilly), the woman with the butter cookies (Ashley Jensen), or with the nosebleeds (Jessica Barden). The pairing principle is: DC and a feather flock together. Who would have thought that of all the women with the butter cookies here gets a problem.
In addition to making the forest chasing the “Loners” the hotel residents regularly. That militant Singlefundamentalisten – led by the always gorgeous as arrogant looking Lea Seydoux – who have devoted themselves to a life without partnership and anyone who is caught within their community at Anbandelungsversuchen punish draconian. a slain with the tranquilizer gun Loner
brings for the hunters but an extra day at the hotel and thus one day later as a human being. David is not happy there. As short-sighted, he has tried the Heartless. This is miserably and brutally failed. When he can finally escape from the hotel, he initially joins the Lonern. Ironically, there he finds true love (Rachel Weisz). Dialectical problem shifting would you call that well.
” The Lobster “is not an ordinary film, as you can already think. And he is probably the most accessible from the work of 43-year Lanthimos. Both he and his films are critically acclaimed. At the film festival in Cannes was “The Lobster” won the Jury Prize.
In Germany the film to appear only on DVD would have, it has now but at least in some German cities to the cinema made. And “The Lobster” is quite a wonderfully absurd masterpiece that immerses the bureaucracy of love in pale, cold light. Lanthimos’ perfectly timed humor slips repeatedly on the line between bone dry and painful.
“The Lobster” is brimming with absurd theories and small everyday observations. Why just so many exotic animals are threatened with extinction? Because all prefer dogs want to be and give nobody a Yangtze finless porpoise. Why do people have children? Because the hotel management it allocates fresh contracted pairs, so they can not concentrate so much on their relationship problems.
“No shit, Sherlock!”
Or why listen Singles prefer electronic music? Because you can dance to so beautiful alone. No wonder that Berlin is not only Germany Single capital, but also houses one of the most fertile Electro landscapes.
Only “The Lobster” seems as a whole itself to be totally free of a specific theory or criticism. Clearly, the final thesis of the film is to be noted that only the Singlesein make for single one and relationships only the relationship for the long term is not happy. At the end only true love can be the basis for being together of two people. The English youth would say now: “. No shit, Sherlock” Since “Pretty Woman” Beginning to talk further.
This does not mean that films must always include a thesis or a statement or even a grain of truth. Films must entertain, disturb, amuse, or whatever a film still does all day like this. However Write colleagues all the time that “The Lobster” a “witty mirror” or “parabola” in “our society”. Yes, what again, exactly?
And Lanthimos makes every effort to make it appear as he was working off of something concrete. It builds on a so absurd and at the same time completely realistic world that you look as spectators all the time by a double bottom, after behind, criticism, anything. It is not the surreally nightmarish absurdity of Luis Buñuel or klamaukige à la Monty Python, but the subtle exaggeration of a modern science fiction film.
Finally, “The Lobster” in the broadest sense, a science fiction film . People have obviously developed a technology with which they can umoperieren fellow citizens who do not behave according to the standard, in animals. This should be considered as technical fiction. The city, which is totalitarian simply called “The City”, has the metallic-clean charm that we associate with the future. And the rule of the relationship dictatorship can either connect to a social upheaval or an alternative history. Definitely something has gone wrong. We landed in a dystopia.
Now it is the nature of science fiction films, especially those who are not too far to play in a recognizable future, critically concrete social confront developments. Spike Jonze “Her”, in which a man falls in love with the operating system on his phone, leaves the viewer back with questions about social isolation in an increasingly durchtechnologisierten world.
Are we before the beginning of a relationship dictatorship?
In Alexander Garlands “Ex Machina” tricking an artificial intelligence their human creators from. One concern that even Stephen Hawking haunts. “Children of Men” by Alfonso Cuarón is characterized by the breakdown of civilization, because in the 20s of the 21st century is simply no more children are born. The gerontocracy seems today no longer remote.
“The Lobster” So now ask what would happen if we all just live as a couple. Or only as singles? Or if we develop machines that turn people into animals? Do we face the beginning of a relationship dictatorship? Is it not socially just so no matter how never in which Relationship someone lives? Be in Tinder, Grindr or in a monogamous relationship duration. The government argues more about whether marriages should continue to be preferred.
David has to decide when checking into the hotel, he is rather homo- or heterosexual , Bisexuality is not in the list. Well, maybe we should socially more fluid on the recognition sexualities work, however, threatens as acute no worsening of the situation. On the contrary. Yes, totally agree, Lanthimos taunts around a bit in the human courtship. He makes it very clever, very amusing, very aesthetic. But the film seems all the time to promise more.
Freaks and yet hit
Let it tell me with a current analogy: Lanthimos’ “the Lobster” is the decisive penalty spot in the 90th minute. He wears jersey, soccer shoes and knows all the rules of the game. He takes up. The voltage increases. But “The Lobster” does not aim at goal, which he had never before, but to an unknown spectator behind. Den he meets in the face. Everything Can all technology. The Replay is a painfully funny YouTube hit. But viewers are confused, not just because the ball missed the goal, but because “The Lobster” also cheers. Why did he do that, who knows only Lanthimos alone.
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