The reason Dafoe's character gave for not killing a sea bird is that they carry the souls of sailors lost at sea. The one seagull that tormented Pattinson's character (and he eventually killed) had one eye -- just like Dafoe's previous partner that went mad and died.
@@Tearyatobitz this is an old comment, but I just finished watching and currently processing what I've seen but I'd just like to add that in the Bible the punishment for lusting after a woman is plucking an eye out. Sorry for my run on, but I ended this film right at the peak of my current trip on shrooms and now I must find the answer lol
I am born and raised in Portland , Maine. This is 100% accurate if anyone lies and says they dont like lobster . We deliver a much same curse, if only in our heads.
@@sideskroll jesus, mary and joseph... it's just a large, tasty water scorpion... If you're going that far, do me a favor and rip out your own canine teeth, you're biologically an herbivore.
@@jakehawkinsmusic ??... So because you're unaware (or whats even worse, dont care) that lobsters actually have nervous systems similar to ours, meaning they feel the same as you would. I'm an "herbivore"?... What made you arrive at such an idiotic conclusion my friend? Also, never said anything against consuming meat, or animal products. But theres a huge difference between consuming something DEAD and boiling it alive. If you don't get why or how thats fucked up, you have some issues ..
he didn't "not lend a hand" we clearly saw him stab the man with the log hook in the flashes of his memory. He is an unrepentant murderer, it's kind of an important detail.
easily can be a vision of his own guilt in the form of "by not saving him i murdered him". you gotta take on the characters are insane before and after arrival, the only thing you can trust is nothing is trustworthy and in a weird way every possible way of reading the story is right and wrong, kinda schrodingers cat style
I personally subscribe to the theory that Wake and Winslowe are the same person (with Winslowe being the dominant personality), and that the island is a literal purgatory where Winslowe must repent for his past sins (which he fails at entirely).
yeah the insane laughter at the end is him realizing at the end how many times he's failed at repenting, and how many times he's done this song and dance with himself in hell (or purgatory). All I know is that I got really bad anxiety from the ending of this film lol, I won't watch it again but I'm glad I did.
This is way more interesting than any tired parallels to Freud or Jung and Oedipus shit yet again. I'm gonna try rewatching movie with this in mind and see if it works for me that way. First watch was interesting but didn't leave me satisfied.
@@fatpackman9475 I rewatched and them being the same person doesn't work for me. But what can work is Wake being his punishment/test. He mentions couple times about Winslow possibly being able to see light eventually, if he'll be a good boy and so on. That might mean him being purrified and accepted into the light. What happens instead he fails the test and faces the light while being impure and gets fucked over.
Saw this in a really nice theatre near the end of it's screening (very comfy and empty) and basically dissolved into the experience. Best money I ever spent.
I watched The Lighthouse last night. Much like Erazerhead, I am torn between stunned admiration for it's brilliance and the strong desire to have never seen it at all. This one will haunt me for years. Not that you are likely to see this, but thank you for such a crisp explanation of it's themes and motivations. Kudos.
@@siddhartha6196 Just wait until life pulls you through some psychological torment of your own. The film plays on the cracks present in all of our minds, which grow wider with time. The more life you experience the more terrifying this film will become.
Did anyone else notice that they swapped bed spaces at a point. When they arrive it was Wake on the right and Winslow on the left. It could be perspective or me miss remembering.
That’s hilarious! When I watched it the first time, my mind was going a million miles an hour with Jung, Frued, homoeroticism, the all mythological symbolism and about a little less that halfway through i thought “maaan, fuck all that.” and decided to just enjoy the ride and acting.
I think it's about isolation, Winslow and Thomas are two sexually frustrated men stuck on the island, the Light house and Mermaid are the only release that they have besides eachother. However due to their morals they don't do it with eachother instead looking for relief elsewhere. The lighthouse being the relief that both men want, so badly that they fight to the death over it. Once Winslow gets to the relief, the guilt and reason become overwhelming, causing him to fall.
I have watched many breakdowns and explanations of this movie attempting to understand why some found it to be incredible ... and I have the reached the conclusion that this just wasnt for me and it went wayyyy over my head 😂🤣
@@boogiewoogie6734 just because someone doesn't like a movie doesn't make them a god damned idiot. Ironic, since you're displaying your own idiocy with your ignorance.
Thank you. I just saw the film on Amazon and finally got to see it. I saw 1 other analysis video and I feel like it was just a spark notes summary. You got into psychoanalysis and myth and all that which is what anyone looking for an "explained" video is looking for
Biggest take away here. Besides don't run to the frontier fringe of society an civilization to alieve yourself of some past guilt is DON'T ever mix strong chemicals with Honey... and then consume it.. it'll do all sorts of bad things to your mind
I belive its about two people being poisoned and not realising it. Led paint or the water was putrid. Everyrhing in the lighthouse is in bad state and poison is everywhere eroding them, consuming them and they cant get a grip.
Yes, the central thing to take away from this film is that lighthouses are just giant phalluses and not to mix turpentine with honey lol. Great video mate! Needed the help to understand what the heck was going on in this one. :)
Its almost like what we see is the stream of consciousness that Poe would of have experienced as he wrote this, if he had written it lol its such a trip
I fucking LOVE this movie. Everything about it is just incredibly well done. Dafoe was perfection and hilarious. Everything Eggers has done has been amazing, still waiting to see The Northman though.
My personal theory is the story is a time loop I had this realization at the beining, as the other men switch their posts with these two. We never see their faces, no less them getting on and off the ship respectively is the same sequence in different perspectives. What does this mean? A seld destructive cycle of insanity, especially if both of these characters are the same person [which i think they are, just representing different times in their life]
I think the movie is showing Pattinson’s character going through purgatory, the light is heaven and when he sneaks his way into heaven god casts him down into hell
Squarely in my personal top 10 favorite films. I appreciate the analysis, but to me it's just a fantastic mental trip and needs no high-minded examination. I just love to watch it and feel myself losing my mind.
Can I suggest Life Stinks (Mel Brooks). A surprisingly sober comedy that has much deeper meaning. Sadly still relevant today. The comedy just prevents things from becoming cry in a corner depressing.
I was helping out my friend, Mikey Teutul when we were in Ocean Beach, Maryland. He was showing his paintings at a gallery on the boardwalk. His black pickup was parked on the roof of a multi leveled lot next to our hotel. When we first got our room on the sixth floor, I was trying to hand feed the seagulls french fries out on the terrace. Mikey came out and spit on the bird. I was aghast. Our last day there, Mikey asked me to go and get the truck and pull it out front. We hadn’t used it all weekend. There were other cars parked beside it and they were "clean". Mikey’s truck was covered in seagull droppings. I laughed like hell. True story.
He did kind of just give a summary of the plot instead of actually explaining what even he thinks it means. He’s giving some backstory which is nice I guess but that’s not the lighthouse explained, anyone looking that up is trying to understand what all this means and you’re right he didn’t really give a lot of that
Well that’s on you. After seeing this explanation I learned I am justified in wanting to punch myself in the face for sitting through this movie. Had a hunch by a third in I made a Bad choice. Stuck it through and wow, just wow, why
Is the movie good? I haven’t watched the movie or the video yet and I just wanna know weather or not it’s good. I’ve only seen the trailers. So if you do try to tell me in a non spoiler like fashion
And this is why you have three people at a lighthouse! Oh wait... three disappeared on Eilean Mor around the same time. Maybe we'll stick to automated stations instead. Less lovecraft-ness.
I think the twist of the movie is SPOILER Thomas Wake is literally the Greek mythological sea-god Proteus. He is an “old man of the sea” just like him and he literally morphs into a mythical form that Proteus looks just like in mythology.
I've still seen it better but just because it avoids being garbage like Jordan Peele's Us got to give this movie a thumbs up for actually trying and having some substance.
Yeah yeah everyone's like oh it was a psychological thriller it was simply a mind fuck half the people sitting and watching the movie don't even know who Freud and Nietzsche are
This is my favorite A24 movie. Did you get any copywrite hits when you made this? I tried to add some of the trailer in a vid of mine and it wouldnt let me add any of it without getting a hit
Robert Pattinson nailed his performance while Willem Dafoe played one of the creepiest characters in film history. He even starts to manipulate Pattinson into thinking they have been on the island, for a week, a month, or a year.
in another video about the film they mentioned Dafoe actually stayed on the island after a days filming to really get into the character. im not surprised he had cast and crew shook
I don't know about everyone else, but Robert Patterson is a good actor imo. People didn't like him because of Twilight, but after that, he's been doing alright as an actor.
If you watch his interviews during the Twilight time, you can see how much he made fun of it. He was always beyond that material, but it served as a good stepping stone for him. So it’s a bit conflicting for him to make fun of something that made him, but boy is it funny and true.
that is the problem, he lost credibility as a actor by doing that movie, he was lucky he could make other good movies, other actors in similar positions end their careers there, same for kristen stewart, she had i harder but she has done some great movies
@@arch1107 bull crap twilight was a sensation and it's cool to make fun of it now because every does it, but it's a movie that will stand the test of time, you can always go back to it and watch after many years
@@Jykobe491 i went with a friend expecting to see a cool vampires movie, instead of that we got a absurd piece of shit, we almost got out of the movie theater before it ended, the story is a complete and massive turd, is horrendous the sequels, are as bad or worse
I certainly noticed the parallels with the myth of Prometheus, but I also interpreted the film as a Lovecraftian horror with the Lighthouse being an eldritch entity.
@@lemonyskull4813The northman, heavy with slavic and nordic mythology, and the witch, heavy with native american and witchcraft imagery. Both directed by the same director, Robert Eggers, and are all done in similar creepy and surreal fashion
Very true. I recently move back to my home country and notice a tremendous shift in my mental state. There was a time when I descended into madness because of isolation/burden/stress. Now Im with my family and whole. But I do miss the time when I almost lost my mind. The feeling is visceral just like how the movie depicted. There's something to it, I wouldn't want to return to that state but it was something.
You have to ignore a lot of stuff though. Like, why is he lying half-dead and naked at the cost with one lost eye and seagulls eating his insides after he fell down the stairs clothed. Why is he literally climbing the lighthouse instead of walking the stairs? Why is his face normal when he starts the ascend but covered in blood or black paint when he arrives at the top? How is the light rotating, stopping and opening itself on its own? etc etc
Saw this opening night; and, upon the films conclusion, the entire packed theater sat still and silent as statues ALL THE WAY through the end credits. Nary a soul so much as coughed, whispered, or shifted. It was a shell shocked silence. BEAUTIFUL!!!
I had a similar experience! It wasn’t opening night, and the theater was pretty empty, but me my mom and my sister went to see it. After it ended, we were all speechless for over 30 minutes. I’ve only seen it once and it was one of the most impactful films I’ve seen
I can't recall what movie it was at this moment, but I've only experienced that once. Movie ends and the entire theater is completely silent, almost reverent. You know it's a great fucking movie when that happens.
