This may be a silly way to begin talking about The Lobster but it is an apt one seeing as how one of the many ways in which the film succeeds is in sucking you into
the bizarre rules of the world and accepting them as fact.
Not exact matches
A light hearted assembly that takes students through some
of the more
bizarre rules and laws from around the
world.
In this slightly
bizarre, seemingly third -
world and possibly post-apocalyptic setting, Coetzee uses the encounters his characters have with neighbours, officials, work colleagues and random strangers to philosophise about various aspects
of life: attraction and beauty; self - belief; work that fulfils; progress; the reality
of history;
rules and non-conformity; power and law - enforcement; and whether philosophical non-conformity warrants punishment.
Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn't leave a word out
of place in this brilliant,
bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go — in a
world ruled by conformity - to live an individual and examined life.