Most people will dislike the Lobster

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2015)

The Lobster is one of the most complicated movies ever.
Certainly, The Lobster has its own philosophy, but it is not easy to understand it completely, aside of the themes of the movie.
Perhaps, if one sees the movie more than once, he would be in the position to figure out what exactly is going on and what is the reason behind every incident.
Like in Dogtooth, Lanthimos and Filippou used as a title for their project a symbolic object, but the connection between the lobster as an animal and the protagonist wasn't clear.
The film is said to be full of symbolism about human relationships, but it is difficult to be identified from the first sight.
It probably needs a lot of thinking to get the meaning and that is why limited viewers will understand it.
Perhaps, you need to have a couple of notes with you from the writer and the director to understand what is happening in the film.
The majority of people who watch movies are not geniuses, so to put them in a situation to guess what you mean with symbols is like a brain teaser.
People watch movies for fun, to get amusement. If they wanted to solve mathematics they would apply in a Mathematics undergraduate program of a University.
Lanthimos and Filippou have written simpler scripts in the past, so I believe that to write one like this, it was a product of an intended project. They might have done it for the Oscar, which they didn't win with the Dogtooth.
The point is that you don't need to write something so weird to win an Oscar. Sometimes, the simpler things are more difficult to be shown than that and definitely worth more. I am not saying that this film hasn't merit. But most people won't see it at all.
To win an Oscar, you must be comprehensible and I don't think that every person is in the position to be connected with that movie.
There were also some provoking incidents in the Lobster such as deaths and shootings, which in my opinion must not be taught through the cinema.
Fortunately, some cruel scenes were avoided, but still there were sad things included. Of course, this is how life is. There are good and bad things, so someone must know it all. But entertaining the audience is the most important thing, not to pose him more problems. And with the Lobster you have to surmise what is meant through the allegories of people's actions.
It was a very carefully applied project and it deserves the respect of everyone, but it is cursed to be liked by a particular audience, which is not the majority of cinema addicts.
As an experiment, it is clever and it is evolutionary for the cinema to have movies like this one, so, as a part of the film industry, the Lobster is a worthy project. It has quality, especially for those who become identified with the story and the way it is flourished.
The Lobster is a valuable movie for the cinema, regardless of the people who might find it extremely peculiar and incomprehensible. As a film, it is very interesting, but it is much more when you heard what the story is about than the content.