Pure crap

Rating: 2/10 (13 November 2016)

(Humor): The true story behind the movie is this: Director Yorgos Lanthimos was sitting on a tavern with his close friend and writer Efthymis Filippou. They were eating lobster. Suddenly, Lanthimos started to talk about how art is overrated and that people tend to pretend to understand as art even the weirdest nonsense just in order to show off and blend with the other intellectuals. Filippou on the other hand, strongly disagreed with his friend.
At the end of their argument Lanthimos said that: "Eftyhmi, I will show you that I'm right. I'm gonna make the stupidest movie you ever saw and people will love it". Eftymis agreed to participate on this social experiment by writing part of the script.
So they started planning on how they would make the stupidest movie ever, and present it as a masterpiece.

Let's bring a Hollywood star who wants to play on a European production so as to add it to his "to do" list.

Bring Colin Farrell - we will get Irish support from that!

Great idea, but how will we convince him to play on such a silly film?

Tell him that it is a very deep film with a European perspective and things like that.

Who else?

We need a famous guy who plays cheap comedy roles. Audience loves transformations.

Bring John C. Reilly, he will beg for this!

OMG. This is gonna be huge! Who else?

We'll bring actors from all over Europe, some Greeks some English, you name it. Don't forget we need money to produce this thing!

OK! But won't they have questions about the script?

I'm #$@%# Lanthimos, If I ask them to jump as kangaroos in front of the camera they will do it without second thoughts. And best part: They will be the firsts to believe that is art at its best.

LOL! How about the script?

Write whatever crazy boring thing you can think.

I have a great idea!

Hit it!

At a strange futuristic world, people have to be on a relationship or else must be transformed into animals.

Man this is pure gold!

..and our hero just broke up, so he goes on a special place where he is forced to find a new partner in 40 days or so, or else he will be converted to the animal of his choice.

This doesn't make ANY sense. It's f... awesome!

He chooses Lobster, because, well, we eat one right now!

LOL Mate! We will build a secondary story around this part, later.

OK. Now the matching process should be a bit complicated

Right, so as the audience starts wondering the real meaning.

Exactly. Let's say that the people on this dark world need to have same characteristics in order to mate. Also, as a daily activity, they go hunting for people who prefer to be single, because, why not?

And then?

Let's make a plot twist or something. Our hero fails to mate with a woman, and joins the free people who don't like relationships.

Dude, my mind is blowing up!

He fails there too, finds a girl, they try to escape from this madness and in the end...

What??

I don't know. Let's make an end that nobody understands what it means so as to start theorizing about it.

Or even better, let's not write an end at all. Let people wonder.

Done?

Done!

After a year "Lobster" is presented to the world. The result?
23 nominations and 14 wins. Lanthimos had successfully laughed on the back of the whole world.
On a more serious note, the movie is bad. Very bad. Quite bad. It makes "Highlander: Source" to look like masterpiece. Makes no sense at all and everybody has an opinion on how to translate this awful thing they just saw.