Wonderfully weird

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2016)

Colin Farrell leads a large cast of talented performers (Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Angeliki Papoulia) in the offbeat, dark comedy, The Lobster.
In the world of The Lobster, single people are taken to a hotel where they are given 45 days to fall in love, or they are turned into an animal of their choice. Why you ask? Because single people are inherently worse than the partnered. At this hotel, all single people seem to have some sort of ailment, because single people are intrinsically broken. There is a constant threat of random violence, but because single people don't have emotions, they hardly notice. They are desperate to conform, but receive no pleasure in it and even if they could find love, they wouldn't really know what to do with it. In summation, single people are brainless animals.
This wonderfully weird satire on love and coupling is social deconstruction at its finest and another masterpiece by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, Alps).