I didn't get the ending
>>221844532Before light bulbs, people lost their shit over candles, man.
>>221844532Promethues was a figure in ancient greexw who stole fire from the Gods before he was allowed to see it so as punishment hawks ate his intestines every day amd eqch night they would grow back.Pattinson stole the lighthouse light before he was supposed to and was similarly punished
>>221844532You think you want solitude, but you don't.The story was a mythic retelling of The Old Man of the Sea/Proteus and Prometheus who goes and tries to steal the Old Man's fire from atop the lighthouse.His fate is promethean.
>>221844629 >>221844713well shit...good "media literacy" anon
>>221844629>>221844713Somehow I missed that, and now I'm a little embarrassed.
>>221844809anytime there's magic realism in a film; 9/10 there's some kinda mythic allegory in there.the mermaid got me thinking "oh shit, this is one of those mythic parables isn't it..." then you switch your mind to looking for that kinda shit in the film so the film watching experience isn't as boring.
>>221844892>mermaid*sirenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(mythology)
>>221844931Sirens are supposed to be bird women. Not fish women.
>>221844964you're thinking harpieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy
>>221844892What mythic allegory does pic rel have?or is it the 1/10?
>>221844997gnosticism.caden is the demiurge
>>221844997>>221845009good movie though; lots to think about.shows the folly of nested solipsism (what Gnosticism/gnosis leads to).
>>221844629I figured the Prometheus connection but like how'd he get thereAlso Prometheus gave fire to humans so idk if that works 1 to 1
>>221844974No. Those too. But sirens sing, like birds, sit on rocks, like birds, and look at the imagery in the posted siren wikilink. They're commonly conflated with mermaids, because of stories at sea.
>>221845075fine. call them mermaids then instead of sirens.
>>221844974I hate harpies.
So which one was the crazy one? both?
>>221844713>>221844629He also killed that seagull which according to maritime legend will put a curse on you ass all seagulls are dead sailors or something.
>>221845320They were both crazy by the end from drinking the lamp oil but Pattinson was also cursed.
>>221845373was the tentacle monster jerking him off in the light real?
>>221845559I took that as the sirens messing with him.
what's the moral? don't drink and don't be horny and gay?
HAAAAAAAAAAARK!
>>221844532I still yell monkey pump whenever I take a shot of any hard liquor.
>>221846243not everyone's cut out for solitude
>>221845063nta but my interpretation was it's largely allegorical, so not a one-to-one retelling of PrometheusWhich leads to the second question, how he gets there, the question for me is when does Willem Dafoe's character actually die, or did he ever exist at all. It felt like an unreliable narrator kind of thing
He angered Poseidon when he killed the seagull.
>>221845009>>221845053I like the ending where he breaks out of solipsism and let's an external voice direct his life.>>221844997daedalus and the labyrinth also works (creating a clever maze and ironically trap oneself in)
>>221849303Poseidon is into horses, not Seagulls. Why would he give a fuck about seagulls? It's not even the bird that killing is supposed to be bad luck for sailors, and they aren't on a ship.
>>221850559The storm came when he killed the seagul tho.
>>221844532 Boring movie
>>221850559They literally say "its bad luck to kill a seabird" in the movie
>>221845063It's not supposed to. Eggers is a known formalist in that he believes the meaning of a thing is generated by its relationships to the other elements within the literary work rather than its literal connection to the world. Proteus and Prometheus have poop all to do with each other from the original myths they are borrowed from but they form new functions within Eggers own mythology. Yes, this is Roberto "Wypipo are the real niggers" Eggers' (see:norfman) quiet retroactive admission that he is okay with Nolan's black greek godessess.
thomas' psyche is falling apart (theyre both the same character)
