The Essence of Absurdism According to Camus

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2019)

Yorgos Lanthimos presents the audience with a dystopian society, unlike something such as George Orwell's 1984, or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, it is simply hilarious. It presents a world riddled with absurdity, Camusian absurdism, it allows the audience to realize the value in uncertainty, presenting a radical and meaningless society, analogous to that of our own. As Camus does in The Myth of Sisyphus, The Lobster poses the statement that life is meaningless, men's desperate longing for the rational, for meaning and purpose, only leads to desperation and irrational behaviors, that is itself absurdism. This is manifested through the pointless rules of love presented in The Lobster's society. The film looks at weather or not one should commit suicide, the futile attempt at happiness, the importance of freedom and uncertainty. The pure awkwardness of the film, the robotic dialogue, the repetitiveness, it is all a means to show us, the viewer, that life is absurd, and while we are at it, just laugh at that fact, what else can we do, but be happy.