Endgame (Beckett) 

God gives it a week and leaves the rest to us What a slave driver

Beckett meets Sartre

Almost a parallel to Stockholm syndrome

Sadly. I’m only a minute in and ready to close the video😪

A stunning production. More relevant today than in was in the post war world. We are witnesses to the graying, the corpsing, and the impossible heap making of our pandemic world.

@@nicholasfici805 Is it any different to life in general? Meandering about aimlessly from one petty chore after another while this static, pointless life flows over us like an endlessly flowing river that goes nowhere and we, the little stones lying on the bottom have no reason to exist at all

It's funny

And the possibility of nature within grief ..a given perhaps. .possibly if grief excists

I'd say "please read another book" but here we are.

@@danieltuomey4859 Thank you for your wisdom oh learned and cultured person!

@@voightkampffchamp wisdom is a scam and culture is a bourgeois pimple. thanks.

@@danieltuomey4859 I'd say "go fuck yourself you full-of-shit idiot" but here we are

Many years on and all I can do is echo the sentiment. He is brilliant beyond words in this.

I've drowned in reflective contemplation since I was a child. Not everyone youth is joyous and adventurous

Knowledge breeds misery. That validates it.

@@KajiCarson Is that why the world revels in stupidity?

@@SamuelBlack84 There may be an instinctual truth to that. Knowledge shocks, which is probably why Nietzsche wrote that, "Truth must be approached stealthily." Dunno.

@@KajiCarson Life at its heart has no purpose or meaning and we're all just a bunch of upright monkeys wandering an ancient world and so we look desperately for any kind of distraction to avoid thinking too much

On the contrary, some people might refer to Beckett as the metaphorical “dark pit” in a world of potential “light” as well. 🧐

@@Lobsterboy300 then they miss the point. He was the only one, or at least the most skilled, to be bold enough to shine a light into the void, stare it in the face, and find humor in the human condition.

Totally agreed

@@Chieftainteroix I'd argue that this is a much worse reading of Beckett... but each to their own.

Call this living?

I'm watching it because I love it🙂I wish I had been taught Beckett in school

For sorry I'm watching the last few minutes of it for the exam too 😪

Watched it before lockdown

me

@@SamuelBlack84 i know right! Samuel Beckett is just such a genius in his plays. I feel like I have to stop every two seconds just to admire the brilliance of it

Well spotted

7u7

The pauses are crucial,

@@joehiggs100 in some cases I very much agree but others it doesn't really do anything, not for the symbolism or the point of the story

@@joehiggs100 Can you elaborate?

​@@MrRezillo Although Hamm and Clov are arguing with each other throughout the entire play, I think the real antagonist is silence. The world outside comprises a leaden sea, grey sky, and sand. There are no other people. Therefore, if they were to stop talking to each other they would find themselves drowning in silence. That the pattern of their dialogue is so desultory, the way they quit one subject abruptly and jump to another that seems totally unrelated to the last, is to me evidence that they are afraid of the silence. In other words, it better to argue than to sit there with your own thoughts. Thus I see the pauses as those moments where death pokes its head in, reminding Hamm and Clov that emptiness is all around them, and will be there to engulf them the moment they get tired of talking or decide to part ways. edit: grammar

@@jameslatin2939 Thanks a very astute analysis. I wonder why Beckett, via his characters feared silence so much? I've done a fair amount of meditation and am of the opinion that silence is not a bad thing to be feared. Quite the contrary, actually. Anyway, Clov does leave in the end. What do you make of his seeing a "small boy" out the window? He mentions it an an off-hand matter, not: "Look, there's another human being!" but "there's a robin flying by." Apparently Beckett had some "issues", as a shrink would put it, with his parents, viz Nell and Nagg. Anyway, this play has always fascinated me. I did see it live once.

It is if you grew up in Liverpool.

Guiding us with the empty lure of Godot

100%

Pop is what british people used to call a fizzy or sweet drink. is the man in the bin shouting "pop" in an irish accent?

No. He is shouting 'pap' an old word for baby-food@@rlawrence9838

@@rlawrence9838no, he’s shouting for “pap” which is a kind of mush. It also makes one think of “pappy” or, father, which is one of the central themes.

@@bobobahia Oh ok, thanks, I never got an answer to that one...I suppose "pop" meaning fizzy drinks is a bit poste-childhood-of-Samuel-Beckett.

Clay Caldwell VCE Theatre Studies FTW!

University of Wyoming, here.

+Clay Caldwell u guys watch some chill shit

+Clay Caldwell JCCC script analysis class.

+Clay Caldwell me saudi university , i have exam about this play :"(

I think you got Thewlis' and Gambon's roles mixed up.

​@@tuanjim799 You're correct. Well spotted. Thanks. I've edited it.

The lockown was a busmans holiday to me

Try reading Hans Anderson : The Emperor's New Clothes . ? He explains it SO much better..!

Clove? Old Spice?

And, ultimately, he realises he has absolutely nowhere to go

Did you actually read that comment before typing it ?? Unbelievable !

Waiting for goddo

LOL, got that from IMDb?

Wrong. They're all Clov.

@@GoogleAccount-md1gd Even Nell?

Similarly existential and nihilist themes?

Drama class

So yer bloody should!

Me too It hints at the idea that life is nothing more than a bunch of flawed nobodies trapped together struggling to find meaning to nothingness

It gives me comfort as well because of my mental health. It's madness being humanized in a dark comedic and philosophical fashion.

Same

I use it to fall asleep (along «A Piece of Monologue», «Rough for Theatre II», «Waiting for Godot» and other Beckett plays). The words and paces becomes soothing rythms. They’re well written and played 👌🏼 This one has a bit too much shouting to be pleasant in that way, though.

@@OnkelPeters Happy Days is a good one to fall asleep to.

Same... 'the rat got away' becomes more meaningful every time i watch it

these comments are deeper than the play itself

We're born kicking and screaming into an existence that is pointless, miserable and unfulfilling until the day comes when we fade out of existence kicking and screaming. We fear living, but terrified of losing it

@@SamuelBlack84 do you ever get invited to any parties?

@@davidsheriff9274 You have to know people for that and I have no relationship of any kind with anyone

@@SamuelBlack84 I was making a joke about the fact that your outlook on life is so bleak. Why do you think you have no friends? What is so scary to you about getting close with other people? Samuel Beckett was a great genius and he had a lot to say about the human condition, but he leaves out joy, love, fun and human connection, don't you deserve to experience those things too? Check out a Van Morrison song called"The meaning of loneliness". It's pretty good at describing what you, I and so many people in the world feel.

Why is thanos mentioned in every fucking comment section of every video? Are all you idiots obsessed with the fictional prick? It seriously bores the shit out of me

@@SamuelBlack84 Okay, I won't mention "thanos." Mum's the word! First I'd heard the term, but then I don't read Marvel comics or watch the inflated blockbusters.

🤣

"Is it not time for my painkiller?"

Ha! "Running joke!" Not much running going on with stumps, now is there? 😊

I attempted to ask Samuel Beckett about that and I found out something disturbing-- he's in the graveyard with the tombstone blues. Who knows?

same lmfao

I don't think there really is anything to understand in this. It is just so bleak, sour and pointless tirade of humanity. Utter pointlessness of human existence.

@@vksasdgaming9472 more or less

Never made the connection - that's quite the imagery

I can relate! Though, it is genuinely a good performance. I would love to own a copy of this work, but for now having it publicly available is the best i could hope for

*hahaha

It’s called the Theatre of the Absurd

@@faith_alone *Jajaja

But remember what Bon Scott said, "Hell ain't such a bad place to be". Ooops, sorry, the late Bon Scott was talking about his relationship to a certain woman from what I can tell from those pesky AC/DC lyrics. I'm in hell and it's not too bad here and I made it myself, though I did have some help from life itself. Peace.

@@laeticiastudenthalbedel4949 Good luck with that, literally.. contrary to what many folks assert, there's a huge amount of humour in much of the maestro's works, old musical hall gags.

... that hell is way less hellish than the wear-yr-Dog-Muzzle-Slave! Global Prison 2020/21 vintage...

Fresh hell daily.

But there it is, either you love or you don’t.

i dont know man there are alot of connection and it is complex. best thing is to read it instead of watching the play.

Please provide some sources for this view. I've read all of his writings and never got that perspective.

Like a true absurdist I recognize that there's no true meaning to them & they're meant to be silly films, yet I search for a deeper message anyway

@@cykasoviet831 we all do, ... 'to be i ebb, and the wolf flows on....' ....god help us.

Still topical!

@@joehiggs100 still topical

Most of Beckett's works are amazing and quotable. Recommend your next watch be 'Waiting for Godot'.

Beckett is always quotable. From this play: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." From Waiting for Godot: "People are bloody ignorant apes." And my favorite, from The Unnameable: "I can't go on, I'll go on."

Godot, I love it, too!

wear a mask and wash your nose if there is a little bit on it....

Jaysus! I hope you're feckin' under twenty years on the earth!

Pick a language and then try constructing a coherent thought....

Very funny as well though.

+Mike Ballard It kicks ass, is what i think.

Simply stunning. This is everything.

What the fuck

I agree, a superb TV cinematic version of a stage production. Many people find Samuel Beckett's works depressing. Amongst the deep dark bits there's some brilliant wit and humour, in this I think he's taking the piss out of himself at times. I'd only read this script, didn't see it when it was broadcast.

@@joehiggs100 MOLLOY was a howl. My wife kept asking me why I was laughing out loud.

Ogma - Sounds great!

Thanks Julie :)

Well put, thanks Tez.

All concepts of conscience and morality are merely meaningless inventions that do nothing but anchor us to an empty belief that we will be rewarded for it in the long run

@@SamuelBlack84 Yes I'd agree that the notion of a tyrant god judging us is absurd and partly created by a need of some to control others for their own ends. Although I am quite open to the idea of an afterlife. An openness based on reason and experience rather than tradition or "blind faith". The research into NDEs over the last 50 years is one of the reasons I lean more toward the existence of some kind of continued conscious existence. The work of Dr Bruce Greyson is a good place to start. Also I think living wisely does lead to a happier life than living foolishly. But a preoccupation with trying to be righteous won't work either. But I could be wrong and I don't care. Nothing I can do about it. It's a mystery to me.

Ah well, you can always catch up.