The Lobster - Movie Review

How much I recommend it: 2/10

This is one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen.

Couples are the most important thing in society. And single people get sent to a hotel. The hotel is a 45 day holding area where if they don’t meet someone to partner with, they get turned into an animal.

Yup. It’s super weird.

Every few days, the single people go hunting with tranquilizer guns for other single people who have escaped the system and are living in the woods. For each one they catch, they earn one extra day in the hotel.

The main character escapes the hotel and joins the people living in the woods. That group too has bizarre rules that are never really explained. One of which is that you aren’t allowed to partner with anyone. If you are found kissing, you both have your tongues cut out. If you found having sex, genitals cut out.

Throughout the movie, the most important factor for a relationship is that the pair has a similar defect. For example, they must both have a limp, they must both get nose bleeds, or they both must both have a vision problem.

The main character falls in love with a woman from the group and they escape to the city to join society as a proper couple. The main character must blind himself to be a convincing partner for the woman, who became blinded by the leader of the forest group. The movie ends with him in the bathroom of a diner holding a knife to his eye.

Super, super bizarre movie.

Even reading back the plot above leaves me more confused than before.

If you like artsy and mysterious and weird movies, give this one a shot.