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2015 · Yorgos Lanthimos · 1h 59m

The Lobster

Credit
Sound Designer
Logline

In a near-future society, single people are checked into a hotel and given forty-five days to find a partner or be transformed into an animal of their choice.

The Unseen Narrative

The rules of the Hotel are audible before they are spoken. We built a world in which the social architecture — bureaucracy, surveillance, forced intimacy — leaks from the plumbing, the PA, the corridor carpet. The regime is first a room tone.

Selected Frames
#001
The Hotel Corridor

Tannoy distant. Vacuum. A door closed with policy.

#002
The Dining Room

Cutlery in unison. A clock with an unusually slow tick.

#003
The Woods

Leaves, wind, a radio played at half-volume against regulation.

#004
The City

Indoor amplifiers. A couple's laughter calibrated to code.

Stems
Acoustic Breakdown

The film is built from these components. Each stem below is a narrative thread — the work is in how they are woven, and where they are withheld.

The Hotel is tuned to a constant, low-grade institutional hum — ventilation, fluorescence, a PA always one announcement away. The regime is a frequency, and the characters are tested against it.

Elements
  • Institutional hum
  • PA latency
  • Regulatory room tone

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