The Lobster – 7

Just as art can be abstract or surrealistic as well as realistic, there’s no reason a movie can’t deviate from realism into an alternate world such as this, where people are not allowed to remain single and if they do not remarry in 45 days will be transformed into an animal of their choice. (Isn’t that sort of like what Hindus believe?) The characters in The Lobster inhabited this world quite convincingly and human nature remained eminently recognizable. I enjoyed that director Yorgos Lanthimos used actors from Ireland, England, Greece, France and America as his leads to give a universal flavor to the strange world. If there was a moral – something about love or marriage – I couldn’t quite make sense of it.