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THE LOBSTER<\/strong>
\nA24<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya<\/strong>
\nGrade: B<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Yorgos Lanthimos<\/strong>
\nWritten by: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou<\/strong>
\nCast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Ariane Labed<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Park Ave.,<\/strong> NYC, 4\/12\/16
\nOpens: May 13, 2016<\/p>\n

The best science fiction stories are not only riveting as tales but serve as well to satirize our own, current society.\u00a0 In \u201cLogan\u2019s Run,\u201d each person is put into a machine and evaporated upon his or her thirtieth birthday, the\u00a0 reflection on the present day world, at least in the West, being obvious.\u00a0 In \u201cFahrenheit 451,\u201d where people are kept brainwashed and allegedly happy while staring at the government leader on the big screen, one brave group escapes to a world of books, committing them to memory.\u00a0 Not only is this a clever spoof of Big Brother government and the affect of TV on people: it is more prescient than ever today consisting of people tapping their iPhones rather than reading serious books.<\/p>\n

Along comes the movie \u201cThe Lobster,\u201d co-written and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, whose \u201cAlps\u201d features a group of people who start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process, and whose \u201cDogtooth\u201d focuses on three teenagers who cannot leave their house, because their over-protective parents say they can depart only when their dogteeth fall out.\u00a0 Lanthimos, aided by a tweezer-sharp script from Efthymis Filippou, continues in a surreal mode with \u201cThe Lobster,\u201d which takes aim on present-day conformity with an emphasis on how society pressures people to marry and have kids.<\/p>\n

While the film is overlong at just under two hours, several episodes show great originality with a satiric bite reminiscent of the equally surreal films of Luis Bu\u00f1uel, whose almost plotless \u201cThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie\u201d finds six upper-middle-class people regularly interrupted in their attempt to share a meal.\u00a0 Though no lobster emerges, Lanthimos aims to show that not only are people pressured to marry in order to fit into every society currently existing: at the same time, those who opt to join a culture in which romantic attachments are greatly discouraged will find their lives equally intolerable.\u00a0 In the broadest sense, Lanthimos\u2019s critical target is the nature of political and social extremism,<\/p>\n

Lanthimos hands Colin Farrell the brass ring as the principal character, the only one in the movie with a name\u2014David.\u00a0 Filming exclusively in Ireland, the director\u2019s regular cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis turns the lenses on a dystopia that at first looks like our own country, with its mid-level hotels and shopping areas. The objective of the society is not materialism\u2014there are enough movies and literature attacking that\u2014but on coupling and reproducing.\u00a0 They have ways to make people conform.\u00a0 If the folks at a resort hotel (looks like a singles weekend at the now defunct Concord or Grossinger\u2019s) do not find partners to marry within forty five days, they are hunted down if necessary and turned into animals of their choosing, which explain why a camel is seen roaming Ireland\u2019s seashore.\u00a0\u00a0 David chooses a lobster because of its longevity, and because he had always like the sea.\u00a0 Through Lanthimos and Filippou\u2019s surreal imagination, the hotel manager (Olivia Colman), reading the riot act in her warning about animal transformation, notes (in the movie\u2019s most deadpan statement) that \u201ca wolf and a penguin cannot live together, because that would be absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unnamed characters do have a way to distinguish themselves\u2014by some aspect of their physicality. Thus The Limping Man (Ben Whishaw) and the less handsome Lisping Man (John C. Reilly) will look for partners whose disabilities mimic their own. In fact The Limping Man, who does not find a woman with a limp, instead hits on The Woman with a Nosebleed, deliberately banging his head on the table in order to be at one with his choice.\u00a0 This could remind one of couples from different religions either converting to share their spouse\u2019s faith, or meeting in the middle with a compromised version of a belief.<\/p>\n

Like the folks in \u201cFahrenheit 451\u201d who escape from the clutches of government, David flees the society, presumably not eager to become a crustacean, only to find that the group called The Loners go to the opposite extreme. Rather than pressure people to couple, the Loner Leader (L\u00e9a Seydoux) enforces a system in which romantic love is banned.\u00a0 Nonetheless he and Short Sighted Woman (Rachel Weisz) discover an emotional bond, which allows Lanthimos and Filippou to carve a parallel story from their angle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lobster\u201d is filled with comic moments as well as gruesome drama\u2014the latter involving a situation in which a man is about to gouge out his own eyes with a steak knife to remain united to his blind love interest.\u00a0 \u201cThe Lobster\u201d is the director\u2019s first English language drama with just a smattering of French and will be appreciated by a sophisticated audience that can appreciate both a complex story and the scathing trashing of our rigidly conformist society.<\/p>\n

Rated R.\u00a0 119 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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