What do you make of opening and closing scenes of The Lighthouse and the themes it explores? Also, what other films would you like to see me cover in a future installment of Open + Close? Let me know!
The Lighthouse was intense and weird, but it was SOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!!! Wilam Defoe gave a performance worthy of every possible film award an actor can receive! And Robert Pattinson more than held his own!
Start: fade in from white End: fade to white Thus, you could say that the film ends where it begins (stuck in a loop) End credit Song: "Doodle let me go" (stuck in a loop) Mythology: Prometheus stuck in eternal punishment (stuck in a loop) I think it's implied (by the opening-end comparison), that Thomas H. has done this many times already. Many hints and clues pointing in the same direction during the film.
I think people just automatically assume, because of the B&W, near square format and really only two characters, that it will be boring. Couldn’t be farther from the truth! I think it will get more appreciation as time goes on - like a fine wine 😊
The Academy really did THE LIGHTHOUSE dirty. I was happy to see it get a cinematography nod (at least that branch of the AMPAS has good taste), but passing over Willem Dafoe was a downright embarrassment.
And now I have to read The Lighthouse script. That section from the script makes me wish Eggers would do a hard boiled private detective story to write and direct. Keep up the great work. Your channel is criminally underrated.
OMG, I would love to see an Eggers gumshoe pic! But yes, do give the script a read, it's impeccable and I have more to say about it. Thank you so much for this kind words. It's comments like these that keep me doing what I'm doing. Cheers!
Another great installment of Open + Close! The opening is actually my favorite part of this whole film! I love how atmospheric it is, and that sound design? So good.
Probably the best lighthouse essay I have watched! I find this movie extremely sexy and it screams confident from Robert Eggers. Definitely a film that will age well with time. Loving forward to the next episode of open and close!
Thank you and thanks for watching! Eggers in on track to be one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation and I completely agree that his period folktales should stand the test of time beautifully.
I've seen so many interpretations of this film that all ring perfectly true, but to me it's a top 5 all time film to me because I understand the nature of that workplace impasse between men who loathe each other so painfully intimately thanks to several long wartime deployments. It's a movie about how sergeants treat privates. It's a movie about how shift managers at McDonald's treat their subordinates. And how once the first domino falls, there's no repairing the damage and it will only snowball into disaster because of the emotional intelligence and personalities of the parties involved are wired. But you see a man who has nothing to his name but his dignity and a superior who is ultimately fueled by undoing that dignity. And to be trapped on a literal island like that? My god do I understand this feeling. It was like plucking images out of my brain and distorting them into some perverse, surreal Ring video. And I love every goddamn second of it. "Nothing good comes out of 2 men trapped in a phallus" Yeah. I was in a tank in Baghdad for years. 5 years of my life working with mostly the same people and their same smelly buttholes and their same tired-ass jokes and their same shitty personality flaws. My life was a giant sea of Winslows and Wakes. How long have we been on this fucking island indeed lol. Still, that's nothing but a tiny facet of this movie and every other meditation I've seen on it works just as well, as if it's just a kaleidoscope painting no matter how you bend the lens.
In the opening scenes, we see the previous wickies departing carrying a box together, symobilising partnership and collaboration during their shift. This directly contrasts the disintegrating relationship between the 2 Thomas’. I think this implies it is not the job itself, but the psychological demons the protagonists bring to the island, leading to their fatal Oedipal conflict in which the ‘son’ kills his ‘father’ to posses the ‘mother’ (the light). The use of fog at the start and end of the movie, (combined with the numerous surreal imagery), suggest to me this movie is a dream or dreamlike - a similar story telling technique to Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress or the Redux Apocalypse Now when they reach the French plantation.
Based on a real story of 2 lighthouse workers named thomas. Check it out - The Smalls lighthouse incident. It’s the relationship between the 2 people and the personalities of both individuals that made them mess up and insane..
I like every genre of films, anything really but The Lighthouse rise above it all, that kind of movie is probably my favorite I have to admit. Great explanation!
I thought I just didn't like The Lighthouse before because I didn't understand it (though it's film making is a praise-worthy) but after watching this, I confirmed I still like The Witch more than this
I kinda thought maybe Young Thomas killed Winslow, as shown with the spear, because Winslow would out him for being at least bisexual, if not fully gay. And maybe the entire situation at the Lighthouse was a figment of his imagination. A sort of rationale for killing a man, an internal manifestation of guilt and shame, bottled up, and released all at once.
What do you make of opening and closing scenes of The Lighthouse and the themes it explores? Also, what other films would you like to see me cover in a future installment of Open + Close? Let me know!
Yer makin’ high marks in me log book!
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@Tristan Zayn yea, have been using flixzone for years myself :)
@Tristan Zayn Yea, I've been watching on flixzone for since november myself :)
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2019 was such a great year for films, and the Lighthouse was at the top of the list for me
It really was and same here :)
The Lighthouse was intense and weird, but it was SOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!!! Wilam Defoe gave a performance worthy of every possible film award an actor can receive! And Robert Pattinson more than held his own!
100% Jose!
Start: fade in from white
End: fade to white
Thus, you could say that the film ends where it begins (stuck in a loop)
End credit Song: "Doodle let me go" (stuck in a loop)
Mythology: Prometheus stuck in eternal punishment (stuck in a loop)
I think it's implied (by the opening-end comparison), that Thomas H. has done this many times already. Many hints and clues pointing in the same direction during the film.
Great analysis! You have me convinced.
@@cineflect hehe - thanks ;-)
Also he killes his previous harsh boss who calls him dog in an atempt to get a better life, as he does on the island.
Amazing breakdown of the flick. It saddens me that so many people tend to ignore this movie whenever I bring it up.
I think people just automatically assume, because of the B&W, near square format and really only two characters, that it will be boring. Couldn’t be farther from the truth! I think it will get more appreciation as time goes on - like a fine wine 😊
Or they are just scaredy cats.
Just finished this, maybe I’m too dumb to grasp everything but I enjoyed it!
The Lighthouse was such a fantastic film. It's such a shame A24 got snubbed so hard.
The Academy really did THE LIGHTHOUSE dirty. I was happy to see it get a cinematography nod (at least that branch of the AMPAS has good taste), but passing over Willem Dafoe was a downright embarrassment.
I won't forget that scream. What it implies terrifies me to the core
And now I have to read The Lighthouse script. That section from the script makes me wish Eggers would do a hard boiled private detective story to write and direct. Keep up the great work. Your channel is criminally underrated.
OMG, I would love to see an Eggers gumshoe pic! But yes, do give the script a read, it's impeccable and I have more to say about it. Thank you so much for this kind words. It's comments like these that keep me doing what I'm doing. Cheers!
@@cineflect no problem. I just wish RUclips's algorithm wasn't broken. Also I will only accept Robert Pattinson or Adam Driver as said detective.
Great casting call. One of them can play the detective, the other can play the criminal. And Florence Pugh should be involved, a femme fatale perhaps?
Naked from Mike Leigh has a significant opening and closing. Really linked. That would be great for a future open + close
Thanks for the recommendation. That's another one I need to see in any case. I'll add it to the list :)
Another great installment of Open + Close! The opening is actually my favorite part of this whole film! I love how atmospheric it is, and that sound design? So good.
Thank you! Eggers really excels at opening his stories... thinking of how effective the prologue to THE VVITCH is.
Probably the best lighthouse essay I have watched! I find this movie extremely sexy and it screams confident from Robert Eggers. Definitely a film that will age well with time. Loving forward to the next episode of open and close!
Thank you and thanks for watching! Eggers in on track to be one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation and I completely agree that his period folktales should stand the test of time beautifully.
I've seen so many interpretations of this film that all ring perfectly true, but to me it's a top 5 all time film to me because I understand the nature of that workplace impasse between men who loathe each other so painfully intimately thanks to several long wartime deployments.
It's a movie about how sergeants treat privates. It's a movie about how shift managers at McDonald's treat their subordinates. And how once the first domino falls, there's no repairing the damage and it will only snowball into disaster because of the emotional intelligence and personalities of the parties involved are wired. But you see a man who has nothing to his name but his dignity and a superior who is ultimately fueled by undoing that dignity. And to be trapped on a literal island like that? My god do I understand this feeling. It was like plucking images out of my brain and distorting them into some perverse, surreal Ring video.
And I love every goddamn second of it. "Nothing good comes out of 2 men trapped in a phallus" Yeah. I was in a tank in Baghdad for years. 5 years of my life working with mostly the same people and their same smelly buttholes and their same tired-ass jokes and their same shitty personality flaws. My life was a giant sea of Winslows and Wakes. How long have we been on this fucking island indeed lol.
Still, that's nothing but a tiny facet of this movie and every other meditation I've seen on it works just as well, as if it's just a kaleidoscope painting no matter how you bend the lens.
In the opening scenes, we see the previous wickies departing carrying a box together, symobilising partnership and collaboration during their shift. This directly contrasts the disintegrating relationship between the 2 Thomas’. I think this implies it is not the job itself, but the psychological demons the protagonists bring to the island, leading to their fatal Oedipal conflict in which the ‘son’ kills his ‘father’ to posses the ‘mother’ (the light). The use of fog at the start and end of the movie, (combined with the numerous surreal imagery), suggest to me this movie is a dream or dreamlike - a similar story telling technique to Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress or the Redux Apocalypse Now when they reach the French plantation.
Based on a real story of 2 lighthouse workers named thomas. Check it out - The Smalls lighthouse incident. It’s the relationship between the 2 people and the personalities of both individuals that made them mess up and insane..
I like every genre of films, anything really but The Lighthouse rise above it all, that kind of movie is probably my favorite I have to admit. Great explanation!
This film is a critically, nostalgically & visually stunning fever dream. You would need a moment to snap back to reality after watching the film. ✌️
I thought I just didn't like The Lighthouse before because I didn't understand it (though it's film making is a praise-worthy) but after watching this, I confirmed I still like The Witch more than this
Superb piece of art.
Yer makin' high marks in me analysis logbook, them's gospel.
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You pretty good at this, I like your channel
Wish the movie was longer. I want moreeee
Those two men before them were also mysterious. I wonder what experiences they had.
It's one of a kind. Happy to see someone else champion that film.
I kinda thought maybe Young Thomas killed Winslow, as shown with the spear, because Winslow would out him for being at least bisexual, if not fully gay. And maybe the entire situation at the Lighthouse was a figment of his imagination. A sort of rationale for killing a man, an internal manifestation of guilt and shame, bottled up, and released all at once.
Great essay!
Thank you so much :)
Much love from Vancouver
Brilliant
the gulls and mermaid sound almost identical
Good stuff as yoozh.
Appreciate it as usual :)
Was his right hand burned when he was being eaten?
Somehow surrounded by everything else I find the forcing him to act like a dog scene the most upsetting.
Totally. It was so degrading for Winslow too. It was such a stark portrayal of how his need for power and control bring out his worst impulses.
how can u make a vid on the lighhouse when you just made a vid on rrr??????
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Haha! Well, I tried... XD
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