Writer / Director Yorgos Lanthimos Exclusive Interview - The Lobster

Stegan Pape from HeyUGuys interviews Writer / Director Yorgos Lanthimos for his movie The Lobster.

It stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen and Roger Ashton-Griffiths.

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[aarond]

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.

[stbsabs]

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

[farfeggnugent]

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.

[adriansherlockdamondark.]

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

[cbrown]

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

[mauricioexenberger]

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.

[frankryan]

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.

[nottees]

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.