A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and since there was a decent cast involved, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, after ’The Favourite’ which was pretty damned amazing, it was rather tricky, even jarring, to get back to the dark absurdism which has always been Lanthimos’s most unique trademark. Furthermore, it has been 6 years since I saw ‘The Lobster’ and I kind of forgot how Lanthimos treats his characters as some emotionless zombies without much thoughts or feelings. Seriously, as a result, it was rather difficult to really engage myself in this movie but also in his work in general. So, it was definitely a bleak and rather difficult movie, that’s for sure, but the damned thing was still really intriguing. In my opinion, it was some kind of allegory. Basically, in spite of the massive technological steps we have made as a specie and the fact that many of us have reached a certain level of comfort, life is still a huge chaotic mess. In this case, all the characters involved remains cold and even emotionless because they keep rationalizing some really preposterous events but that’s basically what we all do on a daily basis. Sure, the scale is not the same and the end-result is (hopefully) not so dramatic or so completely weird but our behaviour is actually really similar. Eventually, the biggest mistake that you can make with this movie is keeping asking yourself how Martin actually did it and focus too much on this point. Sure, it is understandable that you might wonder about this but it was obviously not the point at all with this movie. Concerning the cast, Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman were both pretty good but Barry Keoghan was the one who really stole the show with a pitch-perfect performance. Anyway, to conclude, even though it turned out to be, as usual with this director, terribly dark and challenging, it is still definitely worth a look, especially if you want to watch something really different.