The Lobster · written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou · 2015

David repeats the compatibility questions about blood type, berries, piano, and German with Shortsighted Woman under the midday sky.

Scene 111 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

David
Shortsighted Woman

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:21 into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 111

After his wife leaves him, David has 45 days to find a partner at a hotel or become an animal; he escapes, falls for a shortsighted loner, and must decide whether to surrender his sight so they can stay together.

Scenes 1–15
David moves from his broken home into the hotel, where couplehood is imposed as the norm.
Scenes 16–24
He must find a partner before the 45-day limit turns him into an animal.
Scenes 25–62
He participates in the hunt, attempts a false match, then escapes into the woods.
Scenes 63–84
He adapts to loner customs and cautiously begins a connection with Shortsighted Woman.
Scenes 85–100
They build a secret language and plan to leave the loner community together.
Scene 106
The Leader’s deception leaves Shortsighted Woman blind and turns their covert relationship into an exposed crisis.
Just before
Scene 108
The Loner Leader invites a sad David to accompany her and her pig on a truffle hunt.
Scene 109
The Loner Leader tells David her deputy has died and offers him the deputy role while showing him a truffle-rich place.
Scene 110
In a dreamlike sequence David tests Shortsighted Woman’s compatibility with questions about blood type, food, piano, and German; he wakes terrified before the sequence resolves.
Scene 111
This scene

111EXT. THE WOODS, MIDDAY

Shortsighted Woman lies under a tree. David goes up to her holding four carrots and a fish. He looks at her, a little lost in thought.

DAVID

What blood type are you?

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

David thinks some more.

DAVID

Do you like berries? Blueberries?

Blackberries?

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

No, no.

DAVID

Can you play the piano?

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

No.

DAVID

Do you speak German?

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

No.

DAVID

I could teach you German but it

would take at least a year for you

to be able to speak the basics, not

fluently. So there’s no point. You

know, German is one of the most

difficult languages in the world to

learn because its grammar is very

complicated.