Lobster (2015) by Yorgos Lanthimos

[thatguy]

I watched The Lobster the other night and while it was slow and quirky, I wasn't put off by it. I think the slowness and the drolling, dead pan narration were just part of the atmosphere. Speaking of "oeuvre", I had a Humanities professor at SJSU, Mr. Caldwell I think...when he wasn't reminding you that he went to Cambridge (or was it Oxford), or that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", he was telling you that Oedipus's eyes represented his testicles and his final act was in actuality a castration. I couldn't help thinking of that while watching this as the allegory was thick...

No one mentioned John C Reilly is in this, as well as Ben Wishaw (Rabbi Milligan in Fargo Season 4)

--tg