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The Lobster is a story about love, without being a conventional love story. It observes the ways and reasons certain people come together to form couples, while others don't. It is a story about the terrifying effects of solitude, the fear of dying alone, the fear of living alone and, above all, the fear of living with someone. Forcing ourselves to like someone is one kind of suffering; trying to find someone we really like is a different sort of suffering. The Lobster tries to discover synonyms for love in words such as fear, norms, deadlines, matching, synchronicity, naivety, prosperity and lies.
The film has the structure of a love story within a prison drama, paired with sci-fi / fantasy elements. This alternate, dystopian world has different rules on many levels. The laws of physics and nature are bent. In The Lobster, people who fail to live their lives as a couple, have failed to live according to the rules of this society. So they are turned into animals. Literally. They lose their right to be human. They are not considered useful exponents of human nature. Hunters become the hunted.
The topographic and architectural setting of the film represents an entire world. We have the Town, where 'normal' people live in couples. Then there is the Woods, where the Loners live, hunting animals to survive. And the Hotel, a kind of prison surrounded by the Woods and the sea, a reformative and rehabilitation centre that tries to reintegrate people into society.
The love story involving our main character takes place within this cruel world. There's a certain irony in the fact that he is unable to fall in love according to the rules of one society, and yet when he does fall in love it is against the rules of another society. The Lobster explores various aspects of civilised society. While egotistical ancient instincts still exist within us, these instincts are what make people want to be social - to form couples, families, towns, cities, unions, and so on. The time both men and women have in which to discover their true nature - who and what they want to be - is very limited, and all this takes place within strict behavioural rules set by society. This is why we are often content with superficial characterisations of people - it is easier to put them into neatly labelled boxes. It makes us feel safe and at ease. The film is an effort to represent the struggle for compatibility between social beings and the importance of belonging to a group. Of finding your own kind and forming a bond. The criteria by which you define your own kind in society tends to be stereotypical. Even more so in the world of The Lobster. It is an extreme version of contemporary society, put under the microscope.
The film also raises the issue of a person's right to make their own choices within the rules set by society; the right to be independent and different. And of how conflict arises between groups of people with opposing philosophies and attitudes towards life. The theme of love, which is central in The Lobster, is universal - as well as being deeply emotional. The treatment of such a theme needs to be surprising and fresh. Humour, elements of absurdity and moments of violence, present also in my previous films, are important aspects of this approach. All elements combined in the end reveal the connection of the world of The Lobster to our 'normal', everyday lives.
The Lobster is a story about love, without being a conventional love story. It observes the ways and reasons certain people come together to form couples, while others don't. It is a story about the terrifying effects of solitude, the fear of dying alone, the fear of living alone and, above all, the fear of living with someone. Forcing ourselves to like someone is one kind of suffering; trying to find someone we really like is a different sort of suffering. The Lobster tries to discover synonyms for love in words such as fear, norms, deadlines, matching, synchronicity, naivety, prosperity and lies.
The film has the structure of a love story within a prison drama, paired with sci-fi / fantasy elements. This alternate, dystopian world has different rules on many levels. The laws of physics and nature are bent. In The Lobster, people who fail to live their lives as a couple, have failed to live according to the rules of this society. So they are turned into animals. Literally. They lose their right to be human. They are not considered useful exponents of human nature. Hunters become the hunted.
The topographic and architectural setting of the film represents an entire world. We have the Town, where 'normal' people live in couples. Then there is the Woods, where the Loners live, hunting animals to survive. And the Hotel, a kind of prison surrounded by the Woods and the sea, a reformative and rehabilitation centre that tries to reintegrate people into society.
The love story involving our main character takes place within this cruel world. There's a certain irony in the fact that he is unable to fall in love according to the rules of one society, and yet when he does fall in love it is against the rules of another society. The Lobster explores various aspects of civilised society. While egotistical ancient instincts still exist within us, these instincts are what make people want to be social - to form couples, families, towns, cities, unions, and so on. The time both men and women have in which to discover their true nature - who and what they want to be - is very limited, and all this takes place within strict behavioural rules set by society. This is why we are often content with superficial characterisations of people - it is easier to put them into neatly labelled boxes. It makes us feel safe and at ease. The film is an effort to represent the struggle for compatibility between social beings and the importance of belonging to a group. Of finding your own kind and forming a bond. The criteria by which you define your own kind in society tends to be stereotypical. Even more so in the world of The Lobster. It is an extreme version of contemporary society, put under the microscope.
The film also raises the issue of a person's right to make their own choices within the rules set by society; the right to be independent and different. And of how conflict arises between groups of people with opposing philosophies and attitudes towards life. The theme of love, which is central in The Lobster, is universal - as well as being deeply emotional. The treatment of such a theme needs to be surprising and fresh. Humour, elements of absurdity and moments of violence, present also in my previous films, are important aspects of this approach. All elements combined in the end reveal the connection of the world of The Lobster to our 'normal', everyday lives.
