What a rare way to display an idea on social conformity

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2016)

The Lobster
What a rare way to display an idea on social acceptance. A near or distant future, depending on how you view our civilizations trajectory, clues us in to the societal norms that could develop given circumstance and instance.
The story follows the life of David, (Colin Farrell) a man who has recently been rejected by his partner of 11 years and one month. In this dystopian version of life people who are single or cast out of relationships must follow protocol in order to regain the right to live within society again. In this world the main function of society is to create pairs, for if you have a partner you can better understand how life is supposed to be lived, or so the thinking is thought.
Once cast out of a relationship, or once one is found to be single they are directed to the hotel. At the hotel you have 45 days to either find a mate or, given the circumstance that you find no mate, decide what kind of animal you want to be transformed into.
David and the people that interact within the film speak purportedly and with an indifference matched only by artificial intelligence. To show emotion is adverse or unnecessary, depending on which negative branch you believe in, in utilizing the process of matchmaking. See in order for a relationship to be built there has to be a common ground that both can stand upon. For instance near sightedness, a limp, or perhaps the same hair type are all reason enough for a pair to match.
David shows emotion rarely throughout the film but is one of the only characters that show any emotion at all. Traversing the halls of the cursed hotel he figures out what he doesn't want to know and how escape might become possible.
But once escape is achieved what else can there be?