The Greek-born director Yorgos Lanthimos likes to make movies that trap his characters in confined spaces where a different set of rules applies from those in the outside world. In his early feature , three adult siblings are trapped in an eternal childhood by their brainwashing parents. The Lobster imagines a bizarre dystopia where all newly single people are given 45 days to find a life partner or face being transformed into animals.
People want to understand how and why women experience violence at the hands of people who claim to love them, and they want to know what women can do when they've experienced these atrocities. They want a window into making sense of an experience, either because it's so seemingly foreign or so altogether disturbingly familiar as to resemble their own. This is why we often crave insight into others' perceptions of their own lives as well as their perceptions of others' reactions.