The Lies Of The Lighthouse

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• AC

  @AcolytesOfHorror · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Sorry about all the fog and slo mo. Had to upload this 6 times before the copyright demons would let it through. <br><br>EDIT: I refer to the way Wake switches from &quot;Friend&quot; to &quot;Boss&quot; on a whim as &quot;Schizophrenic&quot; at one point. This isn&apos;t an accurate description of how schizophrenia works, it&apos;s just a stupid stereotype that I rather recklessly wrote in without thinking. Sorry to anybody bothered by that.

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• ZA

  @Zayl1016 · 5 years ago

  &quot;It&apos;s almost as if the island itself is farting in Howard&apos;s face.&quot; There&apos;s the professional analysis I came to see.

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• CO

  @CocoShimshim · 3 years ago

  I know this vid is two years old but an interesting thing I wanted to add; when you’re a ship at sea, a lighthouse is not something you go towards, it’s something you avoid. They mark hazardous waters, full of rocks and shallows. Howard and wake both battle over it and you’re never meant to be near it in the first place.

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• DR

  @DrummerGiraffe · 5 years ago

  That part where you talked about your work experience and driving home past normal, mid to low level houses and knowing you could never afford them. It made me cry, covered me in goosebumps. I used to be an independent contractor that walked incredibly rich people&apos;s dogs in lower Manhattan. One time a rich dog owner complained to my not boss that I smelled too bad and I was reminded of Parasite. We weren&apos;t allowed to pee in their bathrooms. I&apos;d go into their apartments and it felt like going to another planet. I&apos;ve never known that comfort and never will. The shame was so deep, so absurd and unknowable and to hear someone with near the exact experience, it made me feel good to know a lot of us are here together, we&apos;re there together.

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• JA

  @JadyLester · 6 years ago

  After watching this movie I decided the next level up from &quot;gaslighting&quot; is &nbsp;called &quot;lighthousing.&quot;

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• ZE

  @zenleeparadise · 6 years ago (edited)

  This movie hits me hard now. I watched it first when it came out, I had caught it in theaters. I liked it but didn’t consider it much.<br>But then not long after, I was an assistant living in an unfamiliar place, living with my crazy, old, emotionally unstable boss, when quarantine hit, and we basically had no company but each other for months. <br>This movie was on my mind a lot during those months.

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• FI

  @fiedelmina · 4 years ago

  can we just talk about how amazing the acting by both men is?

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• TR

  @troubleinbound · 6 years ago

  As an underpaid worker living in a shitty one bedroom apartment, constantly saying &quot;someday&quot; this hit like a fucking freight train. &nbsp;That ending had my jaw on the floor, my hands white knuckle gripping my phone like it&apos;d fly away if I gave it the opportunity to. <br><br>You&apos;ve made a masterpiece of a film analysis with this. I&apos;ve never had a long form video essay hit me like this before

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• NE

  @Newton14alan · 5 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve always felt that DeFoe was a superb actor, but his portrayal of Thomas Wake made all of his other roles look like freshman attempts. The accent, alone, was a magnificent achievement, but he really lost himself in this character. Anyone who watches this film, whether they realize it or not, is witnessing an historic level of acting...and I doubt that I&apos;ll see its equal before I die.

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• IA

  @IAmNumber4000 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The lighthouse is certainly a metaphor for hierarchical thinking. Everyone fights to sit atop the hierarchy, and reproduce the trauma of living at the bottom. And so, they all remain imprisoned to themselves, and their own fear of being seen as “unworthy”.

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• EL

  @Elias-tp8lg · 5 years ago

  As someone manipulated, controlled, and gaslit by my mother with ko escape, Howard dreaming up the mermaid and turning his rage on everything in a brutal breakdown is the most accurate thing I&apos;ve ever seen to a reaction to trauma/abuse.

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• BE

  @BenFromCanada · 6 years ago

  This movie makes me feel like absolute garbage. And you&apos;ve outlined perfectly why.

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