"The Killing of a Sacred Deer" is a 2017 drama film directed by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and honored as Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival
The story has at least two meanings: the story of crime and punishment or sacred sacrifice and, more curiously, the political background, the metaphorical essence of America's economic-political relationship with the world (the second can only be seen as one theory, but a rather curious theory).
The first level, the mythological level (mostly based on ancient mythology, which is not surprising, since Lanthimos is Greek), is revealed through the example of three well-known stories. These are the myth of Iphigenia, the myth of the sacred deer of Artemis (hence, by the way, the title of the movie) and the myth of the sacrifice of Isaac.
"The Lobster" is a scary and horrifying movie about the cruelty of modern society, in which real feelings recede. People have stopped listening to each other, we no longer communicate, but sit in our phones, instead of declarations of love we send emoticons and emoji, and we look for love in a virtual hotel in various applications from tinder to grinder.
In the near future, single people are arrested and sent to a special hotel. There they are obliged to find a mate within 45 days. If they fail, they are turned into animals and released into the forest.
Dogtooth" is a first successful film that won one of the prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category
As the story goes, the family lives by shutting themselves off from the outside world and keeping the children off the property so that they won't be influenced in any way from the outside. It was "Dogtooth" that became the starting point for the Greek director of low-budget auteur cinema into the world of Hollywood films.
In "Dogtooth" you can clearly see Lanthimos' handwriting as a creator, working with the world of absurdity in the context of a small part of society, in this case — one house.
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