The loss of love

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2017)

A fiction aligned with a context of present drama elevated to the extreme, the searches for the indenity, for someone that completes to him, and the search of the love through futilities are bad of our world to which the film portrays of a sarcastic and unique way. We have an extremely creative script, making a satire to great Hollywood films of dystopian futures like voracious games, Divergent, Maze Runner ... and mixed a black humor to the best style "Dr. fantastic" the script creates a world of exaggerated situations , Intelligent, with very interesting characters and very different from what we are accustomed to see. A world where everyone has to find the "soul mate", otherwise you will be sent to a hotel, where if you do not even find the love of your life, you will be transformed into an animal of your choice, in this context, we have Our protagonist David (Colin Farrel), who is sent to the hotel, but ends up living with the singles of the forest, a group of social renegades who live on the margins of a society subjected to love. The moral of the film aims at portraying that today we live in a gigantic emotional lack, where those who achieve it are successful and oppress the needy, because of this oppression in the search for the ideal pair, the small similarities between man and woman already Are enough to be considered couples, we live in a world to have the same taste goes beyond love, and such subtleties are portrayed in an exemplary way in the film. Technically the film has a photograph with many shades of gray, but extremely natural, with many scenes recorded in the light of day, and using many open angles, the photography is extremely cold but has an intrinsic beauty in its depression, with a good edition , An almost absence of makeup that brings a natural and transgressive beauties and an apathetic costume, we must also mention her soundtrack, the music that is rambunctious, she is melancholic with classic touches mixed with strong beats, makes the viewer feel the weight of Film, mixed the narration and black humor, the feeling caused is something unique, we do not have great highlights in the performances, because they are all caricatures, and the model of acting of the film is extra bold, as its script, we have extremely theatrical performances that help To compose even more the climate of the film, we must also mention the director yorgos lanthimos, already known by the great "Canine Tooth" the director has a way Extremely European and beautiful to drive, look forward to your next films. Finally "The Lobster" is a film that takes outdated concepts and reinvents them in a magnificent way, we have an extremely ambiguous ending, which will bring the reflection to all.