The Lobster (2015)

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Wikidata Q16996794, film, IMDb tt3464902, TMDB 254320: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

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The Big Picture

Came from

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Led to

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Connected to

Lolita: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (tonal comparison): Lolita → The Lobster. The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality.
    “The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60 sure it was them)

Poor Things: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (tonal contrast): The Lobster → Poor Things. The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie.
    “I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Yorgos Lanthimos: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Yorgos Lanthimos → The Lobster. The Lobster, Dogtooth and The Favourite are his most beloved, with a cockeyed sense of humor.
    “the lobster and dog tooth and this movie, the favorite, are sort of his most beloved movies.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:13:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Yorgos Lanthimos → The Lobster. The Lobster, Dogtooth and The Favourite are his most beloved, with a cockeyed sense of humor.
    “the lobster and dog tooth and this movie, the favorite, are sort of his most beloved movies.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:13:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (tonal contrast): The Lobster → Poor Things. The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie.
    “I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (tonal comparison): Lolita → The Lobster. The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality.
    “The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60 sure it was them)

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