Can someone explain what it's trying to say? Is it a movie about relationships? Authority? The ugliness of people? The consequences of loneliness? I know some people will say I'm a moron for not getting it, but I'm trying to understand.
Try not to reply with "Go back to watching Disney."
Comment by user nerowolfgal:
I watched this movie last night. I rather think it will be like "Under the Skin", a movie I hated when I first watched it and thought a terrible waste of time. However, I couldn't stop thinking about it and over time now think it was a very good movie.
Interestingly one thing that struck me in "The Lobster" was he actually made a connection with the hotel maid/Loner. They actually expressed emontion to each other. However, both were so damaged that they could not see an actual human connection when it occurred.
Comment by user pait_mojo:
I think it's all about extremism in relationships, that's why the setting is very dystopian. You've got the extreme married people (The hotel management) and the extreme anti social people (loners). Also there is a significant mockery about the rule and traditions for relationships/couple/married, like being not married/couple is wild and freak like "animals."
Comment by user SiminR:
Before I start I apologize for my poor English.
At first sight I was thinking "what a cr*p"(and still I am thinking what a cr*p because of all the cruelty it depicted and it wasn't necessary), but I think what it was trying to say is that being strict on your belief will result in many problems. For example you should choose between 0 (being married) and 1 (being single) and you should stay loyal to your choice for rest of your life and you should condemn explicitly the other group (however you should be able to choose for example 0.4003 and change your opinion anytime and anywhere). Accordingly, I think you can see this on many scenes, for example at the beginning when the hotel reception ask for the size of the shoes and He (Colin Farrell) say 44.5 and the reception answer back you should choose between 44 or 45. Even before that, when he should choose between homosexuality or heterosexuality.
I noticed this too. They had removed the bisexual option. Half sizes in shoes were not allowed. Every choice was black or white. Even the couples had to match some stupid random trait exactly (like nosebleeds or nearsightedness). If they differed on one little detail, that would be the end of the relationship.
In real life, those are not defining traits and people don't need to find a partner that matches that trivial thing. When the girl became blind, the man thought he had to blind himself too in order for them to stay together.
I also don't think that people were ever turned into animals. How could a human heart and brain fit inside a lobster's body? They just killed the people and then let the animals loose. We did see random animals like camels and flamingos roaming the woods, but I don't think they were ever humans. Colin Farrell had been inside that transformation room so he knew the truth but he never told Rachel Weisz (the narrator).
No beautiful, you are NOT stupid. This movie is stupid, fascistic and cruel. 4/10. Awful.
No beautiful, you are not stupid. This movie is stupid, and cruel and fascistic.