Release Date: June 3, 2016
Starring: Colin Firth as David
Olivia Coleman as Hotel Manager
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Fililppou
In a not so distant future people are making matches. However, if you don't keep your match you are transported to a hotel for 45 days. You make a match within those days or you get turned into an animal, of your choice, so that you can have a "second chance" at love.
By far the most mind numbing, confusing, strangest, worst movie I have ever seen. It's attempt at dry humor was a disaster at best. It seemed like it was trying to be too artistic. None of it really made any sense at all. They did not tell you why the world has become like this. What changed and why the world thought that people weren't capable of making their own love life happen.
Then to go on and make it that if you don't have someone to love that you aren't even human. That you have to risk the rest of your life to find love, or be eaten, or be killed by another animal. That if you are a loner that is worse than being an animal. That you have to be hunted down by the people in the hotel and forced to become something that you don't want to be in order for you to find happiness. Who can tell you what makes you happy? Not the majority!
The message of the film is to show that if you allow others to control your life then it's not going to make you happy as it's going to make them. However, they did not have to make such a horrible film to make that point.
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