Review of The Lobster (2015) by Salah A — 23 Aug 2016

The lobster is a very strange movie, but a good kind of strange. It has many faces. It is dark, thought provoking, brutal and even funny. We see a world similar to ours, but where people who don't find a partner in life have to go to a hotel to find one in 45 days.

If they succeed, they'll both move to The City, if they don't that person is transformed into an animal of their choosing. That is the first half of the movie. The second focusses more on a place where everybody has to be a loner, surviving in the woods.

In that place love, or anything resembling it, is completely forbidden. And you guessed it, our main character doesn't find love when he has to and finds love when he is forbidden to. Be warned though, the ending is as special as it is sudden and some viewers might not appreciate it.

Throughout the entirety of The Lobster there is very little emotion to be found in any scene, this gives it a very odd and sometimes even creepy atmosphere. A lot of credit goes out to Colin Ferrall, as it can't have been easy to play a role like that.

I have never seen someone act out a love relationship so intense and frigid at the same time.