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Yorgos Lanthimos, one of the most notable directors of the recent period, addresses the original topics in his films in an unusual narrative style. Lanthimos exposes his criticism of social order and values with distopian representations in his films. This study aims to evaluate the reflection of the concept of dystopia, which expresses negative thoughts and designs about the social order in the cinema, through Lanthimos' cinematographic approach. The study includes the relationship between the critical power of cinema and dystopia and the detections of the dystopian elements in the films of director Lanthimos. The Lobster, Lanthimos' last film, was selected to evaluate the distopian cinema. The film, which tells about a society where lonely living is prohibited and has a variety of metaphoric stories, is analyzed by the quality method formed on the concept of dystopia. According to the findings obtained, Lanthimos, the limitation of freedoms, the loss of human values, alienation, disappointment, etc. It shows a distopyan film that represents the concepts. But Lanthimos moves with the presumption towards the closed society instead of the extreme science fiction elements, such as most dystopies.

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