Writer / Director Yorgos Lanthimos Exclusive Interview - The Lobster

[@aarond9563]

I finished the film minutes ago. I'm still recovering from watching this. I'm surprised no one seems as shook as me after watching this.

[@milesmoralez2256]

I too just watched it first time...man I'm still on the cruel woman and what animal he turned her to

[@axl1555]

@@milesmoralez2256 maybe she's that donkey from the beggining that gets shot? hard to say right my beautiful friends?

[@isaacruddell7940]

@@milesmoralez2256 he turned her into a rabbit. The Ultimate humiliation for a hunter to become the prey. The shortsighted woman in her narration clarifies that David won't tell her what the animal that nobody wants to be was. He loved her, and being that her favorite food was rabbit, telling her this would have been unsettling.

[@nolandoucette1381]

true bro!!!!!!!!!

[@MultiKarola]

what a film gorgeous! so original

[@stbsabs4370]

Movie brought me in touch with my own feelings and realized how seriously bored i was, helped me travel to a different dimention and understanding of boredome. PS kubrik's movies just give me the same old feeling of enjoyment

[@farfeggnugent6590]

Thanks for putting this up. Just watched The Lobster last night. Lanthimos has a very distinctive style, including the filters he uses. I realized it was by the same director who had made Dogtooth within a couple of minutes. Certainly one of the more interesting directors at present.

[@zanbrwnbear]

what filters do you notice him using?

[@keybuckley]

Excellent film. Really funny.

[@nolandoucette1381]

true bro. What about what it says about society???????????????

[@adriansherlockdamondark.1094]

It felt like Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four and A Clockwork Orange.

[@TeoOfficial_1]

Best movie I know bc it is what it is

[@nolandoucette1381]

true bro. it is what it is.

[@mauricioexenberger6225]

In my estimation, the film portrays an organized, clean, developed, yet extremely rigid society on moral and behavioral standards. The existence of an autocratic state isn't clearly perceived. The oppressive system is diluted, in the film, in the figure of manipulative bureaucrats, who act inside a hotel as omnipotent deities. Such leaders are always willing to reward and applaud the most obedient and severely punish anyone who violates the imposed rules. In order to control the destinies of society and to ensure the perpetuation of the dominant power, personal relationships are cold, psychologically and physically violent, and therefore disturbing and frightening.

[@cbrown11846]

the first time I saw it, I thought what kind of drugs the director uses, then I have seen it several times, it has given me the opportunity to see the different layers of this complex story, I really like it, it makes me laugh and on the other hand it is sad, it's very human, but fiction, it's pure contradiction, I love it

[@frankryan7367]

Hey You Guys is from the Muppet Show, not Goonies. Ugh #millenials

[@AllyDarkWolf]

my dad and me must not have a sense of humour, because me and him didn't find it funny at all.

[@Cuddlestrike]

Adam sandler fan by any chance?

[@AllyDarkWolf]

nope, though I do love people like simon pegg and nick frost. and the reseason me and my dad didn't find it funny was because it just came across as depressing and a bit hard to follow. don't get me wrong, I like dark humour, but this just didn't strike me as that it was trying to be funny, it came across like it was trying to be serious, so that might be why I just didn't get it.

[@makiskostopoulos2280]

Snuggle BUM? There is nothing wrong with liking Adam Sandler if it's HONEST. The problem with people like you and the majority of the pretentious idiots (and believe me they don't come more pretentious than Greek artists) who watch films like this is that you want to PRETEND that you are more intelligent than other people with somehow a more sophisticated sense of humour.

[@BarbaPamino]

+Makis Kostopoulos I didn't find this film or its humour pretentious at all or even snobby. I don't know any of his other films but I saw this film and thought it was brilliant. And I was in a packed theatre in Toronto and there was a lot of laughter through out the film. I also saw a few people leave early and I understand that. It's definitely not a film for everyone. But I liked the humour because the characters were literally and directly saying that which most people would more commonly imply rather than say outright. It didn't feel to me at all like greek comedy and I found that refreshing.

[@dobbsiancant7736]

+Al DarkWolf you don`t say how old you are but i imagine you are still quite young.see it again in about 5 years when you`ve lived a little.i don`t know what to tell your da.

[@not2tees]

Lobster fails as comedy because there is only quirkiness and weirdness and darkness and torture in it. Lobster fails as drama because none of the characters are believable and no one can take the assumptions of the plot seriously. It would appeal to lost souls, though, looking on the bright side.