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Personally, I understood the point the movie was trying to make. But I felt the execution was extremely poor and a lot of the visuals were completely unnecessary to demonstrate the aformentioned point. People who liked it found it "clever" and "witty." Personally, I feel like those who have that opinion probably aren't very deep people at all. I found the meaning to be important, but formed and conveyed in a clumsy, disgusting, irresponsible and juvenile way. Plenty of other stories, movies, and art pieces have conveyed the same points as The Lobster beautifully without having to resort to what the creators of The Lobster did to make it memorable. It felt like the movie was a hard attempt to *seem* intelligent and edgy to make a harsh statement, using shock value to achieve the illusion of understanding and to make a lasting impression rather than actually fully fleshing out the concept and making it memorable by thoughtfully planning the story. It was a mess, frankly. Boring and bland without the shock, gore, and grotesque scenes. The characters themselves were boring, bland, and disgusting. It felt like the entire thing was written and directed by sociopaths who think very highly of themselves. I understand the satire of it. But the humor really just missed the mark in humor throughout so much of the movie. It was clear who the directors were trying to emulate and they did that well, but it felt more like they were just copying Wes Anderson's style and applying it to a sinister, disgusting movie, so people called it "original." But what they fail to realize is that part of the reason Wes Anderson's style is so good is the combination of "simplicity" and "awkward" *with* the pleasant, the beautiful, and lovely. When you mix that simple and awkward nature with things that are ugly, boring, or just disgusting, it just makes it worse. I don't even think it was that bizarre, frankly. There was nothing especially clever about it. The ideas themselves might be somewhat surreal, but "bizarre" implies that the concepts are unusual. The only thing that was unusual about The Lobster was how high the reviews were considering the unnecessarily bloody, violent, and downright disturbing scenes and the lack any sort of depth or reason to feel attached to the characters. It was terrible. And not even terrible in a "okay it's so terrible that it's good," way. Just... awful. It genuinely feels like somebody just slapped "comedy" on the label and people fell for it. The biggest statement this movie makes is how willing people are to apply principles from their own minds that don't exist in reality as long as you pitch it to them beforehand. Tell them it's a comedy, and they'll go in ready to overlook every single horrible thing that happens, and ready to laugh at even the slightest inkling of 'light' in a dark film. This isn't a comedy, not even a dark one. It isn't vastly intelligent. It isn't clever. It can't even really call itself original. The whole movie is a fraud.