Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Screenplay by: Tony McNamara
SUMMARY
A woman with the mind of a child, controlled by the men in her life - her husband, his assistant, a perverted stranger - sets off to see the world with a perverted stranger. She bucks society ("polite society") by being carefree and sexually free. Ultimately, she returns home when her father is ailing, finds out she was previously married (because her body is that of a grown woman with an infant's brain). The film ends with her in control, married to the assistant, and the evil husband punished.
C
I appreciated Lanthimos' previous work, The Favourite, and even remember liking The Lobster, but this just wasn't my film. I couldn't get beyond the idea that Bella is constantly - basically - raped throughout the movie, and she "enjoys" it. I'm not going to moralize. I'm not going to make this about it being "wrong" or anything, but for me, it was just too distasteful, like a film that was too violent or gory. Just not my taste.
SUMMARY
A woman with the mind of a child, controlled by the men in her life - her husband, his assistant, a perverted stranger - sets off to see the world with a perverted stranger. She bucks society ("polite society") by being carefree and sexually free. Ultimately, she returns home when her father is ailing, finds out she was previously married (because her body is that of a grown woman with an infant's brain). The film ends with her in control, married to the assistant, and the evil husband punished.
C
I appreciated Lanthimos' previous work, The Favourite, and even remember liking The Lobster, but this just wasn't my film. I couldn't get beyond the idea that Bella is constantly - basically - raped throughout the movie, and she "enjoys" it. I'm not going to moralize. I'm not going to make this about it being "wrong" or anything, but for me, it was just too distasteful, like a film that was too violent or gory. Just not my taste.