The movie labyrinth, the possibility of multiple endings

Laury 2022-03-22 09:01:47

After watching the film, there is always a sense that the director deliberately confuses time, events, order and ending, which makes it difficult to form a convincing process if reasoning from the film's timeline, which is logically unworkable, but If the reasoning is based on the changes of multiple timelines and choices, then there can be multiple endings, and they are not contradictory to each other. What the film presents is just an example of some endings.

For example, after Thomas killed the seagull, he fell to his death in the process of painting, and then was eaten by the seagull; or Thomas was killed by the incarnation of the sea king after the statement of the crime, etc., it is possible, in the ending Under certain circumstances, it can be said that it is very interesting to combine the plot reasonably and get different inspirations.

In fact, when I was thinking about this, there was a vague shadow of Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths". I walked out through different paths in a maze. Since books can be labyrinths, movies can also be labyrinths. .

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Extended Reading
  • Jasmin 2022-04-22 07:01:24

    80/100, this classical and expressive style naturally goes without saying. The sound is not actually "retro", and the rich sound may be more effective for the construction of the space than the stylization at the visual level. Robert Eggers also intends to use this method to generate atmosphere from the beginning. The content continues the folklore of the previous work, placing characters into space to trigger internal conflicts, but after development, the space has almost been lost, and it is no longer charming. There is only seeing and speaking, supporting meaning with visual symbols, building momentum with words, and cross-flow of desire.

  • Elroy 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    When you try to figure it all out, you lose. The film is full of deconstruction, theology, religion, allegory, schizophrenia, metaphor. Traveling in the light and shadow of the extremely stream of consciousness, flowing in the lines with a strong sense of ritual, the evil of human nature is photographed so finely and delicately, this is not only the punishment brought by loneliness and curse, but a symbol of human hell.

The Lighthouse quotes

  • Ephraim Winslow: What made your last keeper leave?

    Thomas Wake: He believed that there was some enchantment in the light. Went mad, he did.

    Ephraim Winslow: Tall tales.

    Thomas Wake: What?

  • Thomas Wake: DAMN YE! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! HAAAAAARK!