I don't get this movie. literally what actually happened?

They're the same person
Young Thomas is a tulpa of himself old Thomas created in his descent to madness after murdering his lighthouse keeper coworker

Also some shit about prometheus and mythology but idk about that, it holds up as a character story on its own

You're free to interpret it as either
>2 dudes going crazy
>1 dude going so crazy he thinks he's 2 dudes
>supernatural shit happened

It is actually all 3 of those. I will not elaborate

>I spilled the beans all over myself making The Lighthouse & a black teenager shouted 'this nigga spilling beans' & everyone laughed.

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but why? was it because of something supernatural? i didn't get that part? did willem dafoe kill the last guy who was on the island with him?

It's Persona with men. Instead of lesbian eroticism you get alcoholism.

>that part where they almost made out while slow dancing

what was the purpose of that?

The original Russian movie is much better

cooming to mermaid

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Bad pairing they drove each loco

I thought it was mainly a commentary on shitty jobs.
>live in some sketchy isolated lighthouse
>no pussy for miles, fantasize about mermaids
>only companionship is crazy old man who makes you do all the hard work
>fucking seagulls won't shut up
>finally snap and go postal

I thought it was a commentary on bad work conditions

the most boring interpretation

Not all films have a -> b -> c plots user.

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>did willem dafoe kill the last guy who was on the island with him?
Maybe. But also loneliness and remoteness (cabin fever), and lots of alcohol.

Reddit the movie
Mogged hard by Uncut Gems

It doesnt have to some magical bullshit, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

was it just me or was r pattz kinda cute in this

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>He thinks there were two guys

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uncut gems was mogged by good time

well theres your problem. the movie isnt meant to be taken "literally"

if you take it literally, its a guy on the run from a murder he committed while an old guy batters him into madness with belligerent criticism and insults. but theres more to it. its strongly hinted that they might actually be the same person, essentially at war with his conscience, or the film can be taken as an allegory for a greek tragedy akin to the tale of prometheus.

it has many different interpretations, and i believe eggers said it was always the intention that the audience may get different things from it, and was deliberately vague about anything having a single concrete interpretation

based
good time is such a good fucking movie

M8 that doesn't work here because mermaid pussy is unequivocally supernatural. Here the "it's a cigar" interpretation is supernatural shit does happen, "it's ackshully a metaphor for a dick" is saying it's hallucinations.

I won't fall for your tricks, demon.

can you elaborate on the greek tragedy a bit? it was always the interpretation that interested me the most.
the ending(?) shot of the seagulls eating him is just pure out of prometheus, right? but what about the rest?

they crazy

the lighthouse wicky veteran lays down a bunch of rules and tells thomas how to live, thomas secretly defies and disrespects him, covets the light, and then openly disrespects and defies him, attempts to steal the light for himself, and then in the end is struck down for it

Tall tales

i like it, but it seems like it is a much more selfish twist compared to prometheus. because he gave the people essentially civilization, and what does pattinson want, knowledge of secrets within the light?

Are people really this slow? I'm pretty sure they had a big reveal moment in the movie telling the audience that both of the characters had the same name.

schizo theory

Read The Conqueror Worm.

red herring

It's a Seafarer's mythological nightmare.

>WAIT... so, they both have the same name??? OMFG THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON
take your meds

My name is Thomas too and I'm neither of them.

You probably don't know about the superstition on lighthouse rotations about names.

Neither did Eggers when he wrote the script.

Defoe was doing fine, the timberman couldn't handle it

Si why did he fuck the mermaid
was it rape?

Dafoe is the guy that Pattinson killed and took his identity at the old logging job. He takes a lighthouse keeping position to get away from it, literally the most isolating job he could get. Dafoe reappears as his conscious in the form of a stereotypical old sea captain that constantly belittles and guilts him throughout the movie. Pattinson starts going crazy as the isolation and shit work gets worse, until he confronts and kills his conscious and ends up dying on the beach.

Are you going to explain or just be a conceited cunt?

Want to explain further?

Wow your name is thomas? so is mine, i agree with your logical reasoning. user 166463649 and user 166463687 are both wrong, they are also two different posting agents (posters), what i like to call "differentfag(s)", how do i know that? I check the nmbers.

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Its bad luck to put people with the same name on the same rotation. That's it.

YES
FUCK YOU

>bro just read Poe and Greek Mythology if you don't get it

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Did you think there would some goofy ghost story attached? Its just a superstition.

Holy shit you are retarded. Ephraim Winslow was the name of the character that Pattison's character killed and took his identity, not Dafoe's character. Try actually watching the movie and pay attention instead of staring at your phone you fucking pleb

Do you get it now that you've read them?
The Conqueror Worm is like a page long.

Lo! ’t is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.

Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly—
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!

That motley drama—oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

But see, amid the mimic rout,
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

Out—out are the lights—out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

That is the entirety of it kek.

schizo poems, meh

>Dafoe is a comically campy salty sea captain
>Shares the same name as Pattinson's character
>His last name is literally Wake
yeah he's totally real bruh no cap fr

I read it but don't understand how the lighthouse draws inspiration from this. Wikipedia tells me the poem is about human mortality and the inevitability of death. I didn't get any of that from the lighthouse, so do you want to explain or no?

there is no lighthouse in this poem

The lighthouse is a dick and they are sperms. The whole movie is an allegory for wasted spunk, it had dreams of a life too.

>Thomas is arguable the most common name during that time period and setting
>"HURRRR SAME PERSON CONFIRMED. WAKE = WAKE UP!!!!!!!111"
This is schizo shill behavior. please see a doctor

>wake noun (2)
>the track left by a moving body (such as a ship) in a fluid (such as water)

take your meds bud