See what I mean?
The Lighthouse is an amazing movie. Easily my favorite Eggers movie. It’s fantastic at painting our minds with emotions. But what’s the meaning of it? Who the fuck knows? Could be almost anything.
II legitimately stand by those as meanings, so I don’t really see what you mean, sorry. I’d find it hard to get “originality” or “the value of hard work” out of it, but killing seagulls is specifically condemned and the seagull death sets off the action, while alcohol abuse contributed to most of the bad things that happened.
I am very bad at interpreting movies though, so I’m legitimately interested in what other meanings you can see.
I see too many possible meanings. And I’ve no confidence any of them are correct or even valid. I can’t even say the sea gulls were real and not imagined.
Don’t kill gulls or Alcohol bad are such small trivial ideas, they can’t be the real meaning in such a grand complex movie.
One: An allegory for modern work and corporate hierarchy.
One man works in the tower, the other on the ground. Both are insane in their own ways.
Two: An allegory for faith and religion.
One man clames great illuminating knowledge, but hords it for himself. The other man resents being kept in the dark.
Three: An allegory for online life.
Two men have stories they believe or want the other to believe. When those stories clash they don’t handle it well.
Four: Running from who we are doesn’t work.
A man isolates himself while running from a horrible act. Tries to make a new life very different from what he had. But he still goes mad and does it again.
Those are the first ideas I had. I’m not confident any of them are the intended meaning. In fact I’m more confident there is no specific meaning and that it’s just abstract painted canvas for us to make of it what we will.
I don’t think the director’s intent is necessary for meaning, so it seems to me like these are all valid things to draw from this movie, and a reasonable basis for calling it a meaningful movie.
Like, reading into a Heinlein story, you can glean a lot about gender that he wasn’t necessarily intending to include, but that doesn’t mean they’re not in there.
Incredibly strong disagree
What’s the substance of The Lighthouse?
What’s the meaning? The message? What’s the point of it?
Alcohol doesn’t solve anything
Don’t kill seagulls
See what I mean?
The Lighthouse is an amazing movie. Easily my favorite Eggers movie. It’s fantastic at painting our minds with emotions. But what’s the meaning of it? Who the fuck knows? Could be almost anything.
II legitimately stand by those as meanings, so I don’t really see what you mean, sorry. I’d find it hard to get “originality” or “the value of hard work” out of it, but killing seagulls is specifically condemned and the seagull death sets off the action, while alcohol abuse contributed to most of the bad things that happened.
I am very bad at interpreting movies though, so I’m legitimately interested in what other meanings you can see.
I see too many possible meanings. And I’ve no confidence any of them are correct or even valid. I can’t even say the sea gulls were real and not imagined.
Don’t kill gulls or Alcohol bad are such small trivial ideas, they can’t be the real meaning in such a grand complex movie.
Could you (and anyone else) list any of your possible meanings? Correct doesn’t exist, imo, so no worries if they feel incomplete.
One: An allegory for modern work and corporate hierarchy.
One man works in the tower, the other on the ground. Both are insane in their own ways.
Two: An allegory for faith and religion.
One man clames great illuminating knowledge, but hords it for himself. The other man resents being kept in the dark.
Three: An allegory for online life.
Two men have stories they believe or want the other to believe. When those stories clash they don’t handle it well.
Four: Running from who we are doesn’t work.
A man isolates himself while running from a horrible act. Tries to make a new life very different from what he had. But he still goes mad and does it again.
Those are the first ideas I had. I’m not confident any of them are the intended meaning. In fact I’m more confident there is no specific meaning and that it’s just abstract painted canvas for us to make of it what we will.
I don’t think the director’s intent is necessary for meaning, so it seems to me like these are all valid things to draw from this movie, and a reasonable basis for calling it a meaningful movie.
Like, reading into a Heinlein story, you can glean a lot about gender that he wasn’t necessarily intending to include, but that doesn’t mean they’re not in there.