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

David and Shortsighted Woman synchronize two CD players and dance while the songs drift out of sync.

Scene 95 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

David

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:09 into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 95

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.
Just before
Scene 92
The loners dance alone; the Loner Leader tells David to dig his own grave rather than expect help after death.
Scene 93
David questions Shortsighted Woman about another man bringing her rabbits and promises to supply them himself.
Scene 94
David accuses Rabbit Loner of hiding contact lenses, attacks him to inspect his eyes, then apologizes.
Scene 95
This scene

95EXT. THE WOODS - DAY

David and Shortsighted Woman put CDs into their portable players. Beside them stands a pony, it might be that girl from the hotel.

DAVID

We need to concentrate, we both

have to press play at the same

time. I’ll count down from five and

we’ll push the button on zero.

Five, four, three, two, one, zero.

The both push their buttons and dance in each other’s arms. We hear the same song playing twice, overlaid, the two streams a little out of sync.