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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Lobster]What the hell happened to mankind in this movie to cause people to be emotionless monsters who always speak their minds? What happened to cause mankind to criminalize being single?
gpt
> What the hell happened to mankind in this movie to cause people to be emotionless monsters who always speak their minds?

Unreliable narrator. The whole film is told to us by the Shortsighted Woman, who may personally misunderstand emotion (and is therefore misunderstanding the situations she's describing) or is possibly glossing over the finer details of what actually occurred.

> What happened to cause manking to criminalize being single?

From an outsider's perspective on the universe, we don't necessarily know that something "happened" to make the world that way. It's very possible that that particular universe has *always* operated that way. That said, presuming that it hasn't always been that way? Since the whole thing appears to be endorsed by the government, I'd guess that the laws were put in place to combat a moral panic against alleged societal decay.