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

Two hotel guests argue and hit each other while trying to claim one unconscious loner.

Scene 30 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct two

Begins 21 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 30

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.
Scene 25
David loads a tranquilliser gun and joins the hotel’s hunt, entering its violent courtship system.
Just before
Scene 27
Hotel guests get off the coach with torches and tranquilliser guns and begin hunting the loners.
Scene 28
Limping Man tries to climb rocks during the hunt but cannot manage it.
Scene 29
Heartless Woman chases down a young loner, beats her unconscious, and shoots her with a tranquilliser gun.
Scene 30
This scene

30EXT. THE WOODS - EVENING

TWO HOTEL GUESTS stand over the UNCONSCIOUS BODY of a loner. They both start to drag the body away in different directions. They then stop and hit each other.