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Under the Silver Lake: Beauty in Ambiguity
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2019
- David Robert Mitchell brings us a new film starring Spider-Man. He loves a chick he doesn't know and goes after her because he feels like it. There's also an Owl Killer, a Dog Killer, an underground cult, and a lot of Marilyn Monroe references.
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Under the Silver Lake - David Robert Mitchell - 2018 - adventure, action, romance, thriller, horror, comedy -
You skipped the best part of the ending where Sam literally watches on as he becomes homeless as he appears satisfied for the first time in the film.
The stress of having to pay rent was lifted from his shoulders. Despite being homeless, that sense of freedom has it beat.
If i may..; while i found this review extremely clever and enlightening i was hoping for more on the introduction of the mother regularly calling in (the first being when he is spying on the topless older woman) is possibly a Freudian take on women. A variation or inversion on an Oedipus complex maybe? Where is the father?
And the affect of pornography on young men.
And depression in young men.
And the significance of the Songwriter trying to kill the man character followed by the murder death of the songwriter by this character
@@animegamernerdo he was gonna move in with parrot lady
I also think it's an understanding to him about the freedom from materialism and all the things he was told he can't live without as if he understands and its kind of bitter sweet almost a window to a new life, what a great fkn movie I can't see it having mass appeal but it's great none the less!
@@lewiscraw8294
If I may, you missed the true point of the story. There’s a force working behind the scenes. It all points to good and evil. God and Lucifer. It’s a boy lost to all of the snares of satan in the world.
This movie is insanely underrated. Can't wait to see what else David Robert Mitchell makes.
And incredible divisive weirdly enough
He shouldn’t copy David Lynch again.
Oh yes, I also wonder what he will write and direct next.
So far all his 3 movies are great!
He will do an og superhero movie
Very underrated. I love this film. I rarely re watch movies nowadays but ive watched it countless times. I love going back to it. It has a vibe of its own
So basically, what the movie is saying is that Jeffrey Epstein is somewhere in the Hollywood hills living in a tomb.
lol my exact thought while watching the movie
I'll buy that.
LMAO
this is what people dp in Hollywood not talking about ascension but weird sex cult Epstein stuff
@@raymondsmith9886 u mean eyes wide shut like that
This movie to me is about trying to desperately search for deeper meaning in a media-obsessed world that consistently denies you the deeper satisfaction that it promises each and every person willing to consume what new product, service, or person that they're trying to shove down your throat. The entire time, our protagonist is constantly scrounging for some kind of eureka moment in a world where dissecting and prodding for answers only brings him more pain and confusion, and he realizes this in the film's ending. In a world where we can't find out what makes everything tick, what we can try to conjure up is self satisfaction.
I really like and agree with this analysis the most, I feel like all of the hidden stuff that is in this movie that can be analyzed or picked at is ultimately useless, as is the stuff in the plot. Really cool
Exactly. Even if we did find some big conspiracy or a secret society running everything, would it even really matter in the end?
It's also interesting how we do the exact same thing while watching the movie
It's a warning about losing yourself in pop culture. It's actually pretty explicit about this. Remember the bit where Sam goes into the club? Girl: "Welcome to purgatory" Sam: (genuinely enthusiastic) "It's great to be here"
Give Infinite Jest a read.
Instantly became one of my favorite films of all time..saw it twice in one day,and I still need to rewatch it again
Andrew Garfield is great in this movie! Such an underrated performance and film...
Dude, this is really, really, really good.
Peter is seriously taking Gwen’s death hard.
I low key wonder if the character of Sam resonated with Andrew in a small way because he also has an arguably more successful ex(Emma won an Oscar) who is starting a family and he’s barely had any projects lined up since their breakup(Since Silence) Obviously that is the only similarity I can really find because I doubt Andrew smells like Skunk. I bet he smells lovely.
@@jamilabrownie what u wrote sound lame asf
@@jamilabrownie fuck that previous commenter. I think there's definitely truth to what you're saying. The film definitely parallels Garfields acting career. There's that one scene in UTSL where an amazing spiderman comic is literally stuck to his hand, and he can't shake it off. If that isn't some sort of meta commentary on garfields relationship with the spiderman movies/franchise then idk what is.
@@jamilabrownieyeah he does.
Probably.
There was a video
i feel like the owls kiss is almost definitely tied to the cult. everyone you see killed (and attempted to be killed) in the film by the owls kiss is always close to discovering the truth about the cult. the homeless king is also obviously heavily tied to the cult and even mentions they might kill sam. who might kill sam? probably not the homeless king as he’s not very menacing and doesn’t appear very strong. i feel as if it’s definitely the owls kiss.
also sam is definitely the modern dog killer lol
Maybe she is, maybe not, maybe she doesn't even exist. Same about the homeless king. I mean, wtf was that code leading to the lincoln's head and everything... This movie doesn't make any sens
And this is why it is a great movie 😅
The code I was referring was this "rub dean's head and wait under newton"
That story is crazy 😭
And another David Lynch reference: “the owls are not what they seem.”
@@caillouplat5307I think all his drinking and drug taking combined with his obsessions literally led to some kind of psychotic break/psychosis so a lot of it was probably hallucinated or dreamt hence why it starts to become crazier and more non sensical.
Lmao…as a prior Silver lake resident who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I’ve always gotten such a kick out of this film for not only it’s entertainment-centric themes, but also the sheer voracity of its commentary on modern Los Angeles subcultures.
Also, R.I.P. Arclight Cinema in Pasadena.
1.What was the Parrot Saying?
2.Who was the Pirate guy?
3.Why does the underground bunker lead to a supermarket ?
Plz Help. . .
i swear the parrot was saying oliver... pirate guy no idea, bunker to supermarket i guess so the homeless guys can steal food lol peace
The parrot is saying "Hollywood". If you turn on the subtitles, that's what it says, which makes a lot of sense, considering the context of the film, the setting and a few specifically placed shots of the word "Hollywood". The pirate is one of the millionaires, disguised after pretending to be dead. That's why he's only around these girls who are going to be taken away. And i guess the supermarket was just a place to end up hahah
Zach B I think the bunker leads to a supermarket so for those in the bunker can have access to food and supplies for the time they will be inside
@@alfredocortes13 That cannot be, because they said they cover the bunkers with cement so people don't try to escape
@@nicolasmollica2584 I think the fact that he has no idea what the parrot is saying has a lot of depth to it. Like what the fuck is Hollywood, does anyone even know what it is? Whats going on etc
Im pretty sure the girlfriend he's talking about in the scene where he explains why he has the dog treats to the hobo king is the woman on the billboard that he sees at one of the parties when she's with her new boyfriend. I have a feeling he was obsessing over the woman he's tracking down for the whole film because he fed her dog one of those treats and it reminded him of a real relationship that meant something to him and used to bring him happiness. Being very unstable he superimposed a personal of meaning due to this small insignificant moment and placed her on a pedestal for no reason. The whole film is him just avoiding dealing with his emotions to the point of comical conspiracy until at the end the facade breaks when he's being questioned intensely because he knows if he's not careful he could be pinned by the hobo king as the dog killer. Or at least thats one interpretation I can think of...
This is much closer to my interpretation of the film. There's a lot of additional thematic material and commentary about Hollywood culture and the way our male dominated culture views women in the film, but really the core of it is Sam dealing with loss of an actual real relationship he had with the ex-girlfriend he sees at the party.
great insight, thank you for sharing this
- yet the connection between sam & sara seems genuine, and he wants so badly to cling to this instance of "love at first sight"....or possibly sam was specifically targeted by the secretive cult, honey-trapped by sara, to test sam and draw him into the fold....would sam be willing to kill for the cult or for love? was sam set-up to kill the songwriter.....?
@@timgreenglassdoubt
Riley Keough, who played the blonde neighbor who disappeared, is Elvis Presley's granddaughter. Interesting considering the song-writer scene...
and the outer wall of the song writers estate resembles graceland.
Neat
Could her character be the songwriters daughter?
Ghost Writing in showbiz is a real thing. This was a massive truth drop.
The owl lady is Lilith, who some say was Adam's first wife and the first vampire in history. I would call Lilith the patron saint of Hellywood.
Great insights here...
Ningal is her child, the trance mission is media, culled from op paperclip debris.
I always get kind of mad that he could've just grabbed multiple stuff from the songwriter's house and pawned it and payed his over due rent but no he just takes his gun for protection still a good movie and one of my favorites just that that detail makes me mad
I thought the same thing as well. Though I think it shows him being careless about important things like paying rent, finding a job, etc. because he is so obsessed with finding Sarah and decoding stuff
That's part of the point of the movie, there's lots of ways he could have paid rent, asking his mom or friends for help etc. but he doesn't pay any attention to it at all unless he's actively getting evicted. This parallels him ignoring the other things going on like killers
@@root1264 It would also make for a terrible story
Famous musicians instruments are basically worthless without certificates of authenticity.
Selling those things after murdering the songwriter would have got him arrested immediately anyway.
Me too!! Omg! Thank you for saying that. It drives me nuts too.
Great video! But are there any David Lynch fans who actually got all the Lynch references? Like the owl, the double diamond symbol - and actor Patrick Fischel, who was in Mulholland Drive? There are tons more…if you know where to look. 😏
The red shirt and blue jeans sam wears in the movie referencing directing his past life as spiderman!
Also when his hand gets glued to the Spiderman comic from the chewing gum in his car... Totally META!!
So we can agree the director lost his girl to this sort of scandalous/mysterious Hollywood scene, right?
4:06 That song isn't by Disasterpiece. It's the song "Never My Love" from 1967 by The Association, a sunshine pop band.
I think this a great analysis but there’s a lot of overall thematic ground that wasn’t covered. On a broad scale I think UTSL is about autonomy and about free will. The god and Jesus elements reflect on a need we have to have purpose and for there to be a plan in our life- and the dog killer and those elements directly tie into this. After all, as we see in the paint on the coffee shop in opening of the film, god is dog backwards. The original dog killer in the old film wanted to kill all dogs because he blamed a wonder dog for his own life not going anywhere- a lack of control in his life. Sam also talks about that he missed out on the life he wanted, and his views on life and especially on women reflect the idea that there are other factors he blames for him not being able to live his own life. This after all is why he hears dog barking coming out of women- a direct correlation. Near the end of the film Sam’s ex girlfriend (his overall drive over the course of the film) is covered up with a mural that says ‘hamburgers are love’
He finally by the end of the film realizes considering the lack of autonomy we all have in our own life that his thoughts on the homeless have been all wrong. Earlier he says they’re jealous they can’t participate, but at the end of the film he realizes not participating and looking for a normal life is the only way to find true autonomy. Hence at the end of the film after becoming homeless, he’s happy. Another brief unrelated thing I think should be pointed out is the casting of Riley Keough- she’s Hollywood royalty in a way being the granddaughter of Elvis; and this is important because it again creates this idea of Hollywood and old Hollywood being put on a pedestal of importance and royalty. Dakota Johnson was initially cast in this role but dropped out, and this would also work for the message as she’s the daughter and granddaughter of Hollywood legends
...and what about the mysterious older woman with the birds he is spying on at the beginning & ends up in her bed at the ending? using an older woman who is always 1/2 naked is too specific to not have some sort of meaning.
@@timgreenglass think partially, this is a reference to the opening of the hard goodbye by altman
@@jimbarris5460 the long goodbye...you may be right...
UTSL is an anagram of LUST which is represented throughout the film. Think about it. Hollywood is the scenery and place where is produced sexualisation in everything and influences everyone to have sex even through commercials which the movies show. The codes, the enigma, the cyphers are an illusion and also a representation of repressed desire and analysis itself. The ultimate end of the film is to make you live your repressed desire by... having sex. I can tell you, this film is just another propaganda to make you submit to the power of Hollywood.
The film is about the bride gathering process of a satanic elite in Hollywood. The old woman in the beginning and end represents male virility being wasted on an infertile or non-child bearing women. The young woman he searches for represents this call to youthful and fertile females as a more genuine drive. When she is procured by the evil wannabe pharaoh it’s a “f*ck you” to the common man trying to procure a fertile woman. You’ll notice all other women in the film are obviously promiscuous or shallow and not portrayed as high value.
I think the owl lady is a representation of all of the conspiracy’s around the pop culture artists who “committed suicide” like Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain, ( cause in the movie the cop said that the crazy comic writer guy committed suicide) I watched a documentary thing once about how Marilyn Monroe thought she was being followed and some people think people with power, “killed” her cause she “knew to much” and I watched a documentary on this high society in Hollywood and how they have a huge ceremony in the woods around a giant wooden owl! (also if you look the location up of this club, on google maps it’s blurred out, like what happens in the movie) All of these things probably have a lot more information surrounding it and I probably did a poor job on connecting all of it. But it’s just interesting to think about!
I feel as if there are surely some wink winks to the audience here and there. ...Like come on guys some, some of this shit isn't made up
this film is about several things, and one of them is $cientology, the space opera cult that has strong ties to hollywood...@@TheKingWhoWins
I take this movie at complete face value. None of it is dreams or hallucinations. He never shows a second of cruelty to a dog, so he's not the killer, the Owl is real, he really found the songwriter and later has the .45 he took from him in the final act. Sometimes Truth is Stranger than Fiction. Especially in the realm of the Occult/Conspiracy. Sam is 33 and the name Sam = 33 in English Ordinal where A=1 Z=26 ect So S =19 A=1 M=13 19+1+13=33 Also note their fixation on Three, Three brides, The Three Performance speech at Purgatory, Even three satellite turd bits in the toilet orbiting the crown turd which is the King / Billionaire from Jesus's shit.
Correct... there is so much truth in this movie... Dog is a code word for a standard human... "Human" is what they call an alive person or an elite in this case... Watch Isle of Dogs... it's all about this place (which is commonly referred to as an island) and also it's about the Beer Bug, etc.
Sam is definitely on a downward spiral when we meet him, but he clearly was not always a lazy loser. He has a nice car and a nice apartment. He had a job at some point that paid for his lifestyle. I think the breakup with his girlfriend sent him over the edge, and he just stopped working, paying bills or caring about much of anything (and started killing dogs). He was sort of a normie at some point before though.
My friend. This is one of the best video I ever seen on yt. I'm not joking. I loved the movie, but your work just enhanced it. So thank you.
Those kids totally had it coming... In fact i identified with him a lot...?🤔
Damn that kinda says a lot
does anyone know why whenever Sam confronts Jesus that the camera intentionally films his shit in the toilet does that just mean nothing like everything else
theres a visual pattern formed by the shite similar to the hobo codes & logos elsewhere. and there is an esoteric tradition of shite-reading similar to looking at tea-leaves in the bottom of a cup to discern the future.
It's a cut that is supposed to symbolically represent the fact that we put rockstars on pedestals, but they still have to take shits too just like everyone else.
A couple of little number things I haven't seen anyone mention:
When Sam arrives at the rooftop bar, a sort of performance poet lady, for some reason dressed like Aunt Jemima, is reciting on the subject of 'holy trinities of women...under the city's male gaze...' She finishes up, '3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3,' which maybe describes the number of female trios on show here: 1. Sarah and her roommates, 2. the other 'king's' brides led by Zosia Mamet, 3. the three stars of How to Marry a Millionaire, 4. the brides of Dracula, 4. the three Shooting Stars employees who take Sam to the Songwriter's mansion and maybe 5. the three women Sam lovelessly sleeps with, and 6. could be the three goddesses judged by Paris, whose name appears above one of the doorways at the Hollywood Forever party. That last could also be seen as an archetypal male gaze story.
By the way, maybe a bit tenuous, but re that Bride of Dracula talking about how 'there's so much vampirism in pop culture,' 1. Isn't she expressing a key theme there? and 2. the possibly tenuous part, are all the brides here (the 'king' at the end calls his companions his 'brides') brides of what are effectively vampires, men seeking to live forever? Are the women maybe not even going to ascend with the men, but only act as sacrificial victims? Again, would make a lot of sense thematically: the whole thing is a misogynistically murderous con.
The other number thing: the zine artist's house number is 1492. 'In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.'
If you unscramble the acronym of the movie i. e. UTSL, it translates to LUST.
Its definitely not the most ambiguous film ever made lol. Really good deep dive into this excellent film, though. I missed a lot that you point out! The poster for one! My take on the silhouetted man was that it represents Sam's dark self. He isn't real. Otherwise how could he possibly appear in the 2 places where he does? It'd require teleportation to physically be possible. Anyway, this dark self is the dog killer within him. He doesn't want to face up to it though so he runs away.
i think the sounds of the fireworks are in morse too
This is late but.. It is reading "TIME TO ASCEND"
Excellent! The best analysis of this film I've seen.
wrong analysis ..
I love how it sticks the finger up to culture. The songwriter lays it all out. Music people, car people, art people, actors. They’re some of the most average and boring people. They usually have no self awareness and if they do, they are willing to sell out for a buck. Eminem, ice cube, rock guys, Robert Downey jr
Y'all still don't pay enough attention to his scene with his ex-gf and the scene when he's chained talking to the homeless king.
11:55 I'm not done with the video yet but I already know that i'm going to come back here for at least this notion about the film. Not just because I agree but because you articulated it perfectly.
In my opinion, this movie is a lot like Hitchcock's Rear Window: pretty much everything happens in the narrator's head, or is a distortion of reality by the narrator.
The way I see it, Sam is not the dog killer, he's a serial killer. He's actually killed "Sarah" and a few other girls (probably 2 other girls: "all these holy trinity of women..."), and a guy (his twisted version of "Jesus" or Jefferson Sevence or the Songwriter or the conspiracy guy, who are different versions of the same man he probably murdered). That's why the combo 3 girls + 1 guy is a recurring theme in the movie: these are Sam's four victims.
The Homeless King is probably a cop, who interrogates him and brings to a cell at least twice. The tunnels and the bomb shelters are the places where he buried the bodies.
As for the codes, they are Sam's twisted efforts to try and process what he's done.
Oh, and he's also homeless from the start (hence the bad smell). My guess is that he was a male prostitute who became crazy after witnessing and living the Hollywood insanity. His friend with the woman's blouse is most likely a male prostitute who spends his time grinding at parties, and the Shooting Stars girls are former acquaintances of his (my guess is that he's killed at least one female prostitute).
I theorize that he's killed a prostitute, the daughter of a media mogul, a media mogul, and... his mother. Psycho is so heavily referenced it can't be a coincidence, and his mother (the one who calls him) is clearly not real. My guess is that the parrot hippie lady is a Psycho-ish version of his dead mother.
🤦 you should really read what the director said about this film
And about people misinterpreting it
Agreed. Some lady always has to diabolize men....
You say people were trampling on Old Hollywood, but I don't think so at all. The memorabilia, graves, et al. are just there to show the same idea the Songwriter hammers home later, that all of the present is an indifferent derivative of an indifferent past. Old Hollywood is a perfect example of viewing the past through rose-tinted glasses. The romanticized nostalgia for the Golden Age is basically bullshit. It was always the same shallow cesspool full of fool's gold with only rare nuggets of genuine golden genius. The Songwriter is just a perfect example, since people like that have always existed, and still do today. A small handful of songwriters and producers tend to almost monopolize the charts.
It's also very much a Wizard of Oz/Matrix Architect man-behind-the-curtain moment. Very mythical.
THE AMOUNT OF EFFORTS TAKEN TO DECODE THIS VIDEO IS IMMESURABLE :)
Nice analysis but you kind missed the point of the ending I think, about the finding a job part or being a respectable member of society. I think what the author was trying to say that in a sense, being homeless might be more graceful than trying to be someone in society. Everything in society is a fabrication, it didn't just pertain to the entertainment industry alone. The principle applies to the whole of society, the entertainment industry is just the medium through which the point was made. Many other authors used it also.
In Eyes Wide Shut however, we experience it from the point of view of a doctor, although it also touches upon the entertainment industry. The artist selling itself for survival is a theme there as well.
I'll leave you with this:
[Quote] To resume : the normal view of art from the position that "Though he is an artist, the artist is nevertheless a man," is not the private property of any philosopher, or time, or place : we can only say that there are certain times, and notably our own, at which it has been forgotten. We have emphasised that art is for the man, and not the man for art : that whatever is made only to give pleasure is a luxury and that the love of art under these conditions becomes a mortal sin, that in traditional art function and meaning are inseparable goods ; that it holds in both respects that there can be no good use without art ; and that all good uses involve the corresponding pleasures. We have shown that the traditional artist is not expressing himself, but a thesis : that it is in this sense that both human and divine art are expressions, but only to be spoken of as "self-expressions" if it has been clearly understood what "self" is meant. We have shown that the traditional artist is normally anonymous, the individual as such being only the instrument of the "self" that finds expression. We have shown that art is essentially symbolic, and only accidentally illustrative or historical ; and finally that art, even the highest, is only the means to an end, that even the scriptural art is only a manner of "seeing through a glass, darkly," and that although this is far beter than not to see at all, the utility of iconography must come to and end when vision is "face to face". [End Quote]
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Christian and Oriental philosophy of Art
Dogma, doctrine, ideology, iconography, ... or the Ideal is simply a means to an end, not the end itself.
The puzzles, the codes, the mystery in this film is the means by which the main character works his way towards truth. What he discovers is the truth of nihilism. But nihilism is not the truth. Nihilism is simply one of the many perspectives on truth. The film is truthful in the sense that it explains nihilism accurately while at the same time making clear that it was through the means of the main character's belief in his own seemingly delusional, psychotic iconographic trip. The thesis is a paradox. And the paradox is probably the closest the human mind can be to the absolute.
I have experienced this in my own life so I can personally attest to this. If you follow your own delusions, eventually you reach a point of disillusionment (truth) which is that everything is meaningless but that the things we create are real in the sense that they serve as the vehicles towards... something, something.
But it depends on you... how far are you willing to go? Because it truly takes an individual that hates itself in order to become "God's disciple" (God being a metaphor, don't take this shit too religiously because then you're missing the point).
It's a warning about losing yourself in pop culture. It's actually pretty explicit about this. Remember the bit where Sam goes into the club? Girl: "Welcome to purgatory" Sam: (genuinely enthusiastic) "It's great to be here"
Such a good analysis and review of this movie i love. Great job man.
Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
David Robert Mitchell, HOLD MY BEER
Those kids definitely deserved it LOL. I didn’t even realize the codes throughout the movie on my first view.
I also loved the attention to referencing the musicians who'd been apart of the 1% plot.. Jim Morrison on the tshirt, Kurt Cobains poster on Sam's wall, and not to mention Paul mcartneys bass in the creepy musicians house
And all three of them are dead hehe
Pretty weird that I just found your comment while scrolling. Though, I guess we did talk about this film once at your place. You’ll probably start seeing my comments everywhere now.
I’ve been looking into it and the creepy musician (songwriter) is more grounded in reality than I expected it to be. It’s certainly something for us to talk about when we catch up next time.
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Still wondering about the scene 2 minutes into the movie where a squirrel falls to its death in front of Sam.
She's only in the apartment complex for single day before she leaves for her prior schedule ascension. This is an invitation to Sam. A challenge. No accident.
Bro Rendan you just uploaded the full movie
Also, the final scene with the Homeless King is the final proof he is the Dog Killer.
When Sarah asks about his dog (because he had the dog biscuit), he said his dog had died recently.
When the Homeless King asks him about the biscuit, he says it's because of a former lover.
He's crying not because he's being truthful, but because he's afraid he's going to die. He himself doesn't believe the Homeless King fell for his story, when he asks again if the King wasn't going to kill him after being unshackled.
27:39 written on left of toilet wall may be important
What if the three words are “hamburgers are love”
I found your channel from your initial review of this movie. This was very satisfying. Thank you.
seventh heaven plot ends with the man goes to war, and she hears her man died, than it happens to be that he isnt dead, but when he comes back he is blind now. in the movie, there are multiple references to seeing/vision, for example on the how to marry a millionaire film poster on top of it you can read: ''YOU CAN SEE IT WITHOUT GLASSES'' (in techni color), on the billboard it says: '' I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW '' (contacts add)
The Owl Lady is scared of Sam not because of the gun, but because he's also an urban legend, he's the dog killer. He's more relevant than her, people are more scared of the dog killer, and he essentially kills off the old urban legend.
I think Sam is the son of The Dog Killer. This explains his interest in the case, his sense of entitlement moving through the city, his mother's sending him old movies to watch, because in a sense Sam has been born into show business.
I think a lot of people might go psycho on kids they catch destroying their expensive cars.
This was a normal reaction.
But many people will probably feel emphatic after their reactions but Sam probably didn't
great video, I loved your analysis ❤
but there's one thing I wanted to add: during the songwriter scene, he briefly plays "ode to joy" (which obviously was composed by beethoven in the early 1800s) and claims to have written it himself, which is impossible. I think this could mean that this sequence takes place in sam's imagination - or it just doesn't make sense, which is of course also a possibility with this movie.
The songwriter definitely is not real. There are many clues, most obviously the fact that the piano keeps playing when one hand is away from the keys. And he keeps playing one-handed while also shooting.
@@colonelweird damn, I didn't even notice that 👌 this movie keeps on giving
Or you can say he's the Devil
@@colonelweird He's playing a melody that can be played with one hand; the film even shows it being played singlehandedly. Nothing about that suggests that he is unreal.
I think it's simply highlighting the fact that people take credit for others' ideas and that there's no real way to know whether the ideas people get credit for are actually their own...
The part where he follows the three girls is an homage to Hitchcock’s Vertigo!
Notice in the party scene they are passing out needles (pricks which is another word for penis) from a cherry. The balloon girl then does her dance and everyone pops her balloons. (Cherry popping).
Why would anyone notice that, youve just made it up out of thin air.
@@SumoCumLoudly I didn't just make this up out of thin air. It's based on what I know about the movie. The movie has heavy sexual undertones. The whole movie is about sex.
@@yeahrightbear8883 the whole movie is about whatever you and anyone else want to tell yourself it's about
@@SumoCumLoudly Well do you have a better explanation of the balloon popping scene?
@@yeahrightbear8883 I can't even remember the scene
Idk if I'm dumb but i just realized its called Under the Silver Lake, because those cult members or whatever are put under ground, under silver Lake.
It's actually pretty straight foward for the most part. The mask collecting bartender guy said he felt like he was being watched and was killed because he knew too much and was talking to Sam who'd been running around parties showing a photo of the girl, and the owl killer didn't know about his secret video room where the cereal box was stashed. You can also hear an owl hooting in the tree when they're flying the drone. Sam thought he was being followed and so did the girl who was shot in the lake. The mystery is why they didn't try to kill Sam. Seems to me they underestimated him. He actually cracked the code and found them and they respected that, or they knew that he killed the songwriter so they had something on him. The homeless king suspected he might be the dog killer after finding the biscuits but believed his story and let him go. It took me a few times to get all that and still missed a ton of clues. My only complaint was the casting of some of the side characters and lack of character development which made some of them forgettable. The best movies always had memorable bit parts and cameos. It was a bit rushed, not a masterpiece, but I liked it.
The girl wasn't shot in the lake. Her dying pose is evidence that the entire event exists only in Sam's subconscious.
@@happinesstan He did have nightmares and visions but thought it was more like a premonition. I took the events as real. Even the squirrel.
I think the dark silhouetted character was a vision of a naked Sam. The Shadow of himself the Dog Killer..
Great video. Didn't catch that part with his shadow over the graffiti in the street when I watched it but his shadow actually crosses out the word beware, leaving just "the dog killer". Also agree with @cake6363 comment about the owls kiss, she is real and connected to the cult. Had to go and double check this but in the final scene as he watches the landlord come in his apartment his window is still broken from when the owls kiss broke in, which I took as saying it happened.
just realizing MacGuffins is what this movie is all about
Thank you. Have been waiting a year for someone to make this video.
Top 10 movie of all time for me
*** SPOILERS AHEAD *** He is clearly the killer, but that isn't even the mystery of the film or the best part. Your video proves the point of the film, that sometimes we obsess over meaningless details in a movie when the answer is right in front of us, in this case literally from the beginning.
I am surprised you didn't mention the Spiderman comic and issue getting stuck to Sam's (Andrew Garfield) hand when he wakes up. Or, that Riley Keough (KEY-oh) is Elvis Presley's granddaughter lol. But I digress.
While I truly loved your video, btw, I think you're missing the bigger picture, so that's why some scenes don't make sense to you. For example, an entitled stalker, Sam objectifies women from the first frame and doesn't truly care to know them as people beyond his sexual desire. Sam is the embodiment of The Male Gaze. He takes his anger out on dogs (and people, but primarily dogs). Sam objectifies women to the point that when he feels rejected by them, they become bitches, literally barking at him in his dreamlife.
There are many more examples like this, but I'm tired of typing lol. I still very much enjoyed your video! I like your channel, tho I think you should rename it to ThisMovieSucks or YourMovieIsTrash, something along those lines. 🤣
The protagonist is the movie viewer, he looks for sex and violence cause that is what people look for in movies, the point was showing the media creating and feeding that need.
The dog is the symbol of the "unconditional love", as said in the movie. It represent all the blind celebrities fans and all the blind servants of the system. In the progressive awakening of the protagonist, killing the dogs means eliminating the ones that still blindly serve the system. "This city can't be fixed until there are dogs".
The barking girls with purple wigs are clearly a representation of crazy radical feminists that completely misunderstand the situation.
On point analysis.
@@punishedf lmao that is such a bad analysis. Doesn't even work since he'd been the dog killer from the very beginning, there is no awakening. Also if your entire analysis is 'thing represents other thing' I have news for you, not everything is a literal analogy - which is part of the point of the movie. Christ.
This was one of the most bizarre and disturbing movies I've ever watched.. It has hints of "David Lynch" with gloomy existential futility..
Under the Silver Lake isn't just about the meaninglessness of culture - it's about how approaching human extinction renders it necessary to create meaning in the present.
If there were no nuclear weapons or climate destruction, a lack of meaning would be fine, because humanity would have a long time to create it. Sam's desperation in the film is tied to approaching human extinction, and the understanding that that extinction can perhaps be avoided if meaning can be created as soon as possible.
Codes, much like sewer pipes in Mario games, are existential shortcuts - like wormholes in space, they allow our consciousness to leap forward.
Desperation, cults, Abuse, and the "insanity" of Hollywood is all entirely reasonable, if we take into account our entire reality of 2020.
We can no longer wait for things to play out in their own time. We can't wait, we can't have patience, we can't allow space for maturity. It's not that Hollywood is immature, abusive, or shallow - it's that our reality forces us to be immature, abusive, and shallow, if we still have any hope left at all for saving the world.
Hollywood culture leads the world precisely because it's wiser than global culture, tied to traditional values formed in a healthy, living world prior to approaching human extinction. All of the desperation and terror of Hollywood is merely a rational response to our present reality.
In Under the Silver Lake, the "worst" character is the best person. Sam is actually trying to save the world, while most everyone else merely operates rationally within capitalism. Sam isn't an anti-hero - within the logic of the film he's the actual hero. Sam is the opposite of the Songwriter - he's the Idealist to the Songwriter's Cynic.
People do indeed go to Hollywood to find themselves, but that's only because the terrors of the 20th and 21st centuries caused them to abandon hope in traditional culture. People go to Hollywood to take part in a new culture, the "City on the Hill", overlooking not just Los Angeles but the rest of the world.
The "City of Dreams" is viewed by many as the last hope for the world. Just as workers willingly died building the Pyramids, young women gladly trade their bodies (after having conditioned them into being "attractive") to be part of the last hope for humanity - that the great art of filmmaking can transform and save the world.
What the director and writer of the film said contradicts this
Really nice video, dude.
Sorry for my english in advance.
Last night I've gone to watch UTSL again, tryin to kinda find smth new, after that straight forward to youtube for some help, and here's your video, uploaded like few hours ago. Some illuminati shit:D
whatever, just small things I wanted to notice. This independent movie's scene Sam is watching near to Hitchcock's grave is basically a remake of the scene from the first full-length movie of David Robert Mitchell 'The Myth of American Sleepover". It's just a nice cameo or something bigger, I dont really know, considering, I haven't seen this film, just noticed it in the trailer.
and the fact that when Sam is running past houses with watchdogs, all of them barks at him, like they feel who he is.
anyway, great video, keep up the good work
my subtitles tell me the bird is saying "hollywood". and yes I think it is
I loved the way the songwriter played the Pixies and clearly referenced Fight Club when looking at the camera. Favorite scene 🖤
You might just be projecting
@@TheKingWhoWins or… I might not be.
Please make more of these video. Agree or disagree your a really great youtuber that speaks his mind truthfully even if its a hot topic. This analysis is great! I would love to see another of a good or bad movie. Thank you
The underground bunker that Sarah's in is the hipster equivalent to the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks.
11:45 I think you've got this part wrong.
Betty = EOMBSTTNE(Z408), -> RAOEDRRER(Z340) -> READ ERROR (anagram),
Marilyn = SHERIFF(Z408)
Lauren = ENERIES(Z408) -> REROERD(Z340) -> ERRORED (anagram).
I watched this right after i got fired from my job, i was feeling really down and alone, this movie def help me cope
The band that performs Turning Teeth also utilizes codes in their music. They have been doing that for the entirety of their career. Silversun Pickups.
"I Shot The Sherrif, But I Missed The Guy With Kurt Cobain's Guitar" lol
Finally my favourite film is given justice
If i may..; while i found this review extremely clever and enlightening i was hoping for more on the introduction of the mother regularly calling in (the first being when he is spying on the topless older woman) is possibly a Freudian take on women. A variation or inversion on an Oedipus complex maybe? Where is the father?
And the affect of pornography on young men.
And depression in young men.
And the significance of the Songwriter trying to kill the man character followed by the murder death of the songwriter by this character
Thank you for making this! I was very confused yesterday after watching the movie. Now I am even more confused but I know that it's the purpose of the movie. :)
If Sam is the dog killer, then he is probably also the Owl's kiss.
Just watched it last night and I loved it. This video is required watching. Excellent work!
If Mulholland Drive and Nowhere (Gregg Araki) had a baby, Under the Silver Lake would be that Millennial baby.
Not sure it was mentioned, but the three girls were driving a white rabbit, which he follows.
Really like your matter of fact dive into the film, no frills. Gave a thumb
I've been wanting to see this after that scene. Now after your studious review. I'll rent it. The bubbles with all those images.... wow
That's not his girlfriend in the beginning, she is a friend with benefits. There is no relationship
That “lesson” those kids got might have been pretty valuable. They were going around brazenly vandalizing other peoples property.
The first time I saw this movie, I was confused and thought it sucked. However, after a few more viewings, I realized that there's more to the film than what we see on the surface, hence why it is called "UNDER the silver lake". I've seen hundreds of movies. Everything from Fritz Lang, to Orson Welles, Scorsese, Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lynch, etc.
Noah Hawley, creator of the TV shows "Fargo" and "Legion", once said "Always make something that people are going to want to watch more than once. The first viewing is to introduce the story, the second viewing is to understand it." In regards to this film, David Robert Mitchell has succeeded. (it's only my opinion, of course)
Does this movie have it's flaws? yes. Is it as AWFUL as most people say it is? Certainly not! There are multiple ways to interpret the plot. My interpretation is very simple (spoiler warning!!):
Sam is a lonely, aimless guy who coincidentally happens to meet his dream girl the night before she leaves to go to that underground bunker. At the end of the film, we discover that Sam went through all those events for nothing, because when he talks to the girl on the phone, she tells him that she PURPOSEFULLY made the decision to stay down there, and sooner or later she will die. This indicates that even though it seemed like a stupid decision, the girl still made a decision for herself, unlike Sam. Sam doesn't change throughout the entire film, and he ends up homeless because of his inability to change his life.
Best comment i've seen thru all these videos about this movie..
I’m sure it’s coincidence but I feel like in this movie there is none. But the book authors address is 1492. Coincidentally that is the same year Columbus “discovered” America. Also the Owl I feel like is a reference to the Elites. The Owl has been used as a reference for secret or occult stuff before.
Google Bohemian Grove folks.
Paul McCartney bass in the 'revelation' scene and a Wuhan gong cymbal.
this movie was freaking brilliant
Wow, you're like a genius. I never would have picked up on all this.
What was that scene with the guy on fire giving the finger? It wasn't in the version I saw.
It's the Owl's Kiss on the trail. The movie introduces the character two scenes later
Loneliness and lack of routine activate the conspiracy gene in some men. Sam's obsessed with symbols, codes, messages, all while his real life falls apart.
Ok, agent😂
Watched it and thought it to be one of the strangest movies I had seen. In thinking that thought, I knew it had to be a great movie because usually the things I don’t understand or don’t delve deeper into to find understanding are great. Maybe I should take the hours of analyzing stories from school to good use sometime soon.
The Songwritter reminded me of Theodor Adorno on Culture Industry
definitely not the most ambiguous movie. The songwriter basically explicitly spells it out.
What about the concept that he died at the beginning when the squirrel hit the sidewalk... he goes to that party that was Purgatory, etc etc?
These small things is really something to appreciate from the director, the point of the movie is that we use time doing things that don't matter which is why small things like what you typed is so awesome
@@bauhaus1961
Or, the concept that nothing we do in life, beyond attending to necessary requirements, actually matters.
But the window to the authors house was obviously previously broken into as the grate is bent open, seen where its so easy for Sam to break in