And, Scene: <em>The Lobster</em>
<em>The Atlantic</em> looks back at key cinematic moments in 2016, this time a dystopian comedy about love and relationships.
Over the next two weeks, The Atlantic will delve into some of the most interesting films of the year by examining a single, noteworthy moment and unpacking what it says about 2016. Today: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster. (The whole “And, Scene” series will appear here.)
The “choice” that forms the premise of is like a curdled Buzzfeed quiz, or a cute personality test from the back of a magazine, that’s been placed in the hands of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. In the world of
