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The Lobster is a 2015 absurdist dystopian comedy-drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, co-produced by Ceci Dempsy, Ed Guiney, and Lee Magiday, and co-written by Efthymis Philippou. In the film's setting, singles are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into animals. It stars Colin Farrell as a newly-single man trying to find someone so he can remain human, and Rachel Weisz as a woman with whom he attempts to form a relationship.
David discovers that his wife has left him for another man, and is escorted to a hotel. The hotel manager reveals that singles have 45 days to find a partner, or they will be transformed into an animal; David's dog is his brother, for example. David chooses a lobster, due to their life cycle and his love of the sea. The hotel has many rules and rituals: masturbation is banned, but sexual stimulation by the hotel maid is mandatory, and guests attend dances and watch propaganda extolling advantages of partnership.
David makes acquaintances with a man with a lisp and a man with a limp, who become his quasi-friends. The limping man explains that he was injured in an attempt to reconnect with his mother, who had been transformed into a wolf. The lisping man is caught masturbating, and the hotel manager burns his fingers in a toaster. Relationships apparently require partners to have a distinguishing trait in common. Limping man is told a woman has arrived with a limp, but he says she limps from an injury that will heal and she is not a suitable match. Limping man instead wins the affections of a woman with constant nosebleeds by purposefully smashing his nose in secret. They move to the couples section to begin their month-trial partnership.
Residents can extend their deadline by tranquilizing single people in the forest; each captured "loner" earns them a day. On one such hunt, a woman with a fondness for biscuits offers David sexual favors, which he declines. She tells him that if she fails to find a mate, she will kill herself by jumping from a hotel window.
David later decides to court a notoriously cruel woman who has tranquilized more loners than anyone else. Their initial conversation is interrupted by the screams of the biscuit-loving woman, who has severely injured herself jumping from a window. Although David is troubled by the incident, he pretends to enjoy the woman's suffering to gain the interest of the heartless woman. He later joins her in a jacuzzi, and she feigns choking; when he does not attempt help, she decides they are a match. The two have sex, and when David wakes up one morning after demonstrating signs of attachment, he finds she had kicked David's brother to death. When David cries in response, she concludes their relationship is a lie and drags him toward the hotel manager. He escapes capture and, with the help of a sympathetic maid, tranquilizes and transforms his partner into an unnamed animal.
David escapes the hotel and joins the loners in the woods. In contrast, they forbid any romance, with mutilation as punishment. David, who is near-sighted, begins a secret relationship with a near-sighted woman. They develop a gestural language for communication. They are taken on covert missions to the city, where their cover requires them to appear as lovers, which they secretly enjoy.
The loners launch a raid to sabotage the work of the hotel. David reveals to the nosebleed woman that her partner has been faking, and he forces David to leave. Other loners hold the hotel manager and her husband at gunpoint, tricking him into shooting his wife to save himself, but the gun is not loaded, leaving the couple to face each other.
The leader finds the near-sighted woman's journal and discovers her plan to escape with David. The leader takes the woman to the city, ostensibly to have an operation to cure her near-sightedness, but blinds her. She tells David, who tries to find something else they have in common, but to no avail. He says they'll figure it out, and tells her to continue with their plan. Early the next morning, David overpowers and ties up the leader, ostensibly leaving her to be eaten by dogs. He and the blind woman escape to the city, stopping at a restaurant. Seeking to reestablish commonality, David goes to the restroom and prepares to blind himself with a steak knife. The blind woman waits at the table for him to return, and the film cuts to black.
