Very dark movie...but there are good things to get out of this movie , as you cannot understand everything during the first viewing... The cinematography is outstanding :-D
Ahhh! Now I get it! People trip a lot when it comes to what happens inside black holes. There's no way to guess what the characters were trying to do. This idea has nothing to do with the Penrose process. As a matter of fact there's a bunch of scientifical inaccuracies in this one, and that's ok, but when authors mistake getting the viewer intentionally lost with being deep, I get disappointed. If I can see clearly that the Emperor is naked, there's no amount of pretentiousness that's going to change the picture for me.
The answer is they died. That’s the only answer. You can cross the event horizon of a massive black hole and live. but after you’ve crossed it it’s impossible to return and you will still be moving toward the singularity and as you move closer eventually spaghettification will occur. And Mia goth’s character looked very alive after spaghettification occurred to her
I sort of liked it even though it was kind of pretentious. I mean this answer itself explains a lot. The whole artsy fartsy I’m not going to explain the meaning of my art kind of deal. It’s incredibly underwhelming when artists do that. I’m an artist myself. I make art with a meaning to me, if people want to interpret it their own way that’s totally fine, but if you want to ask me what my art means, I’m not a pretentious asshole who’s not gonna pretend my art is so good I don’t even know. I’m gonna tell you what I had in mind at the time. And how it’s changed since if it’s changed at all. But this whole movie was like reading a really arrogant poem lol
@@shashanuka8915 Yeah, I'm struggling to understand. But, I am guessing that another craft took similar crew and dogs, but other crew fought (like this one). And, dogs are only remaining crew members -- since other crew (similarly) committed suicides. Is that way to read the dogs ship?
@@PoeLemic i think its a similar experiment but they sent dogs instead of convicts. kinda saying thats what theyre equivelant on this mission, dogs and guinea pigs. or the humans could have all whent off ship and died.
ok i just want to know how home girl died she only got hit once with a tiny shovel and why did the doctor kill herself and how did the brother disappear into the earth, this movie could possibly be turned into a netflx series and have a long life with following each character through his crimes and punishment and dig deep into mental health aspect and dive deeper into the question what makes a criminal is it society or nurture or nature dna or is it just the luck of the draw we need develop the story also from a religious point of view since well u know any ways the move could have used a car chase or at-least a drive by, come on now lets get real here
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I thought it was more of a spiritual movie than the reviews I’ve seen claim. While he wasn’t perfect, monte was the only one who would subdue his desires of masterbation, sex, murder, and such. He did things to make himself stronger during the film and not to get quick fixes like the other passengers. He killed his friend only after she killed his dog, the dog who “raised him,” and it seemed like he knew he deserved to be in jail and punished. Thus, due to his attributes, hes the only one to gain anything lasting in the movie. Willow. It seems as though they died together and became spirits at the end of the movie. Their space suits disappeared and they went into the light together. Willow was innocent and like monte said knows “nothing of cruelty” and hadn’t experienced any of the horrors of the ship’s past. Innocent and humility is what made either character last until the end from my view. While Monte wasn’t innocent and knew of many horrific things, he suppressed and detached from these things. Unlike Boyse and Tcherny, who couldn’t let go of their traumas so they killed themselves. Dibs and Ettore paid their price for their horrors and were murdered. Monte let go of his past sins and Willow had no past sins, she even hears of God from a distant place, in a place where seemingly God could never be found. Either way both were free in this way. I really enjoyed it. I don’t think it’s meant to be followed as other movies are(in typical a24 fashion) and is meant more to be absorbed and thought on as to where you lie spiritually. The director gives this quote to the end of the movie and to here fascination for black holes “what is nothing when there is no time nor space.” A cool quote to think about, that I relate to other questions like, “what is the universe expanding into?” They had to literally give up their physical lives to become spirits(something considered beyond space and time) and have something more while still being together. They talked about having all they needed on the space ship, again a theme relating to not being attached to physical things, but that life was not practical. They needed to head into the unknown, which in this case I think is their deaths. I mean they hurled themselves into a black hole, so they definitely died. But because of how Monte took care of his spirit and allowed Willow to have an innocent spirit, they get to live on in the unknown, shown as Monte says, “shall we?” and the movie ends.
Well, since you didn't create a defined ending for High Life, you are leaving it up to me to figure out. Is that it? I just watched it, and I'm still unsure of how the story ended. Got me thinking.
There's just no getting around the fact that the ending was an absolute cop out and an insult to anyone that took the time to watch the movie. This explanation makes it worse.
Cop out in what way? This wasn't a straight-forward sci-fi story where the science/physics is what drives it, therefore having an open-ended conclusion shouldn't be seen as some sort of weakness.
I agree. I kept thinking the movie was gonna get better but it only got worse. That's not how you end a movie where you spend the whole time trying to figure out what is going on.
Lol...It sucked but I guess it’s one of those movies that you have to end it in your own mind. So I just killed them in my mind so that the movie could end.
Beautiful film, and extremely poetic. It's not for the average person just looking for events, and asking the "but what happened at the end?" question. The ending for me was more poetic and spiritual than anything, and it takes a certain type of person to recognize that and put his own meaning into it. In the end when the father says "Shall we?"... its almost like he's telling his daughter, "ready to ride towards the unknown with me, into possible certain death, to whatever comes?"... and the daughter simply says "Yes".. meaning, "yes, i'll go with you father, to whatever end, to face the blackness together..." and then the screen changes to the line.. showing their disappearance into the unknown, into death or who knows... together.... People now a days are so afraid to think and put their own meaning into things. People just want clear cut events, easy answers.
It's really not, I promise you. If you're going to watch obscure sci-fi film that allow you to ponder these existential you're talking about, we already have space odyssey. which makes this look like a cheap knock-off lol. And no saying "it's just not for the average person" just make you look pretentious. plus u missed the actual point of the movie because you're too busy finding a "deep and philosophical" meaning of the film.
@@kahelbeatslmao "we already have space Odyssey" get a grip kid. There's a reason that movies of a genre keep getting made. Because people want to see them, people want to make them. What a weird response. "Yeah it's not deep you're not allowed to think that way because I don't have any abstract thoughts"
Not even she knows wtf she was on when she wrote this movie and it’s horrible ending. Awful movie, awful characters, awful storyline, awful ending. And that’s not to say it didn’t have A TON of potential to be an amazing film. If the story was better, and there wasn’t so much unnecessary stuff crammed into the movie for no reason (ie. All the sex stuff), and if they thought of a better ending, then this could’ve been a really good movie. But that didn’t happen so I would give it a solid 4/10
Excellent comment, that is exactly what needs to be said. I just watched HIGH LIFE, and I'm spellbound and trying to figure out what happened. But, I don't like that we didn't get more narration and a better way to understand what the movie was saying. Main character needed to talk to himself, and help audience along some ... I think. Movie would have been A+, but I think it is a A- or B+. I wanted to love it, and I do -- for the characters. I just wanted more, though ...
I disagree homegirl. Open endings allow the audience to project their own conclusion onto the story, which make for a more interesting and thought provoking experience to me.
@@loto5919 Sorry, I usually would agree with you, loto. But, I think MyF is right. It needed more clarity, finality, and definition at ending and in some plot points. I caught myself few times mentally falling behind the story, but I liked it -- maybe more appreciated it. But, I could have loved it, and I wanted to -- just not sure that I do, after ending and few bits of non-cohesiveness that made me struggle (like now) to understand where my 2 hours went.
This is what happens when you try to make an artistic movie but you're not artistic. An incredibly botched movie from a horrificly untalented and uncreative director. If Rob wasn't in that movie it would of easily been one of the worst movies ever made
@@stepanvalek3363 I don't care. High Life was her chance to prove she was a credible director with creative ideas and it was 2 hours of pretentious trash that Rob carried.
@@gothelvis3541 Wait so have you seen any other movies by her? Because if not, I feel kinda sad that you're judging her whole career based on one movie
Rock-Solid ... BUt, it could have been. Director needed to rework some of the plot points and flesh it out more, even slow down certain points. And, have some narration. This will not be remembered as favorably as it could have been. I am trying to like it, more appreciate it, I guess. But, it could have been a LOVE AFFAIR, like me and Event Horizon. But, no, I'm left with a murky ending and plot points that didn't give me much clarity in very crucial spots. So, that's why I am here, trying to figure out the ending & how to see what happened.
This movie idiotic. Wasted my time watching to the end to make sense of it. Skip this movie and watch Jacob's latter. High life has no artistic merit. I'm not sure what these actors were smoking when they signed onto this crap film.
They died. All of a sudden, no space suits.. they were spirits at the end.
“What is nothing, when there is no time nor space.” That’s deep
...and scary.
Very dark movie...but there are good things to get out of this movie , as you cannot understand everything during the first viewing...
The cinematography is outstanding :-D
So her answer to whats up w the ending of her own film is.. " I don't know." makes sense.
Ahhh! Now I get it!
People trip a lot when it comes to what happens inside black holes.
There's no way to guess what the characters were trying to do.
This idea has nothing to do with the Penrose process.
As a matter of fact there's a bunch of scientifical inaccuracies in this one, and that's ok,
but when authors mistake getting the viewer intentionally lost with being deep, I get disappointed.
If I can see clearly that the Emperor is naked,
there's no amount of pretentiousness that's going to change the picture for me.
The answer is they died. That’s the only answer. You can cross the event horizon of a massive black hole and live. but after you’ve crossed it it’s impossible to return and you will still be moving toward the singularity and as you move closer eventually spaghettification will occur. And Mia goth’s character looked very alive after spaghettification occurred to her
All I know is that when mia goth popped in her space suit it freaked me tf out hah
I sort of liked it even though it was kind of pretentious. I mean this answer itself explains a lot. The whole artsy fartsy I’m not going to explain the meaning of my art kind of deal. It’s incredibly underwhelming when artists do that. I’m an artist myself. I make art with a meaning to me, if people want to interpret it their own way that’s totally fine, but if you want to ask me what my art means, I’m not a pretentious asshole who’s not gonna pretend my art is so good I don’t even know. I’m gonna tell you what I had in mind at the time. And how it’s changed since if it’s changed at all. But this whole movie was like reading a really arrogant poem lol
Deeply unsatisfying movie. And Claire Denis's explanation does not clarify the ending ... nor the spacecraft full of dogs.
Oh yeah the dogs...what did that mean?
Not a user oh that’s a good one
@@shashanuka8915 Yeah, I'm struggling to understand. But, I am guessing that another craft took similar crew and dogs, but other crew fought (like this one). And, dogs are only remaining crew members -- since other crew (similarly) committed suicides. Is that way to read the dogs ship?
On another review it was mentioned that each craft had different experiments. So maybe that craft had just dogs.
@@PoeLemic i think its a similar experiment but they sent dogs instead of convicts. kinda saying thats what theyre equivelant on this mission, dogs and guinea pigs. or the humans could have all whent off ship and died.
I enjoyed the movie it was beautiful. It really showed the real side of humans when they're forced to stay alone
ok i just want to know how home girl died she only got hit once with a tiny shovel and why did the doctor kill herself and how did the brother disappear into the earth, this movie could possibly be turned into a netflx series and have a long life with following each character through his crimes and punishment and dig deep into mental health aspect and dive deeper into the question what makes a criminal is it society or nurture or nature dna or is it just the luck of the draw we need develop the story also from a religious point of view since well u know any ways the move could have used a car chase or at-least a drive by, come on now lets get real here
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I thought it was more of a spiritual movie than the reviews I’ve seen claim. While he wasn’t perfect, monte was the only one who would subdue his desires of masterbation, sex, murder, and such. He did things to make himself stronger during the film and not to get quick fixes like the other passengers. He killed his friend only after she killed his dog, the dog who “raised him,” and it seemed like he knew he deserved to be in jail and punished.
Thus, due to his attributes, hes the only one to gain anything lasting in the movie. Willow. It seems as though they died together and became spirits at the end of the movie. Their space suits disappeared and they went into the light together.
Willow was innocent and like monte said knows “nothing of cruelty” and hadn’t experienced any of the horrors of the ship’s past. Innocent and humility is what made either character last until the end from my view.
While Monte wasn’t innocent and knew of many horrific things, he suppressed and detached from these things. Unlike Boyse and Tcherny, who couldn’t let go of their traumas so they killed themselves. Dibs and Ettore paid their price for their horrors and were murdered.
Monte let go of his past sins and Willow had no past sins, she even hears of God from a distant place, in a place where seemingly God could never be found. Either way both were free in this way.
I really enjoyed it. I don’t think it’s meant to be followed as other movies are(in typical a24 fashion) and is meant more to be absorbed and thought on as to where you lie spiritually.
The director gives this quote to the end of the movie and to here fascination for black holes “what is nothing when there is no time nor space.” A cool quote to think about, that I relate to other questions like, “what is the universe expanding into?”
They had to literally give up their physical lives to become spirits(something considered beyond space and time) and have something more while still being together.
They talked about having all they needed on the space ship, again a theme relating to not being attached to physical things, but that life was not practical. They needed to head into the unknown, which in this case I think is their deaths. I mean they hurled themselves into a black hole, so they definitely died.
But because of how Monte took care of his spirit and allowed Willow to have an innocent spirit, they get to live on in the unknown, shown as Monte says, “shall we?” and the movie ends.
Well, since you didn't create a defined ending for High Life, you are leaving it up to me to figure out. Is that it? I just watched it, and I'm still unsure of how the story ended. Got me thinking.
There's just no getting around the fact that the ending was an absolute cop out and an insult to anyone that took the time to watch the movie.
This explanation makes it worse.
Cop out in what way? This wasn't a straight-forward sci-fi story where the science/physics is what drives it, therefore having an open-ended conclusion shouldn't be seen as some sort of weakness.
I agree. I kept thinking the movie was gonna get better but it only got worse. That's not how you end a movie where you spend the whole time trying to figure out what is going on.
Lol...It sucked but I guess it’s one of those movies that you have to end it in your own mind. So I just killed them in my mind so that the movie could end.
Hardest Man In Tarot This film is art, but it was also so frustrating, imo.
@@shashanuka8915 I assumed they died to but then they showed the clip of the daughter even older.
Beautiful film, and extremely poetic. It's not for the average person just looking for events, and asking the "but what happened at the end?" question. The ending for me was more poetic and spiritual than anything, and it takes a certain type of person to recognize that and put his own meaning into it. In the end when the father says "Shall we?"... its almost like he's telling his daughter, "ready to ride towards the unknown with me, into possible certain death, to whatever comes?"... and the daughter simply says "Yes".. meaning, "yes, i'll go with you father, to whatever end, to face the blackness together..." and then the screen changes to the line.. showing their disappearance into the unknown, into death or who knows... together.... People now a days are so afraid to think and put their own meaning into things. People just want clear cut events, easy answers.
yeah the barbaric side of humanity is so poetic
I think they were already dead when they said that
I think they are dead but i want them to survive so badly... So i wont accept my own thinking 😫
It's really not, I promise you. If you're going to watch obscure sci-fi film that allow you to ponder these existential you're talking about, we already have space odyssey. which makes this look like a cheap knock-off lol. And no saying "it's just not for the average person" just make you look pretentious. plus u missed the actual point of the movie because you're too busy finding a "deep and philosophical" meaning of the film.
@@kahelbeatslmao "we already have space Odyssey" get a grip kid. There's a reason that movies of a genre keep getting made. Because people want to see them, people want to make them. What a weird response. "Yeah it's not deep you're not allowed to think that way because I don't have any abstract thoughts"
Not even she knows wtf she was on when she wrote this movie and it’s horrible ending. Awful movie, awful characters, awful storyline, awful ending. And that’s not to say it didn’t have A TON of potential to be an amazing film. If the story was better, and there wasn’t so much unnecessary stuff crammed into the movie for no reason (ie. All the sex stuff), and if they thought of a better ending, then this could’ve been a really good movie. But that didn’t happen so I would give it a solid 4/10
I agree
Lmao there's a whole species of people who don't understand A24 movies so it's all bad. Oh sorry sexual themes hurt your prudish taste
Agreed, the movie was trash. 👎🏻
I used to be so well prepared for my exams that I wanted to prove nothing and would leave the sheet blank.
I’m so deep.
Nofing…
Thank you
Great movie but this explains nothing
Excellent comment, that is exactly what needs to be said. I just watched HIGH LIFE, and I'm spellbound and trying to figure out what happened. But, I don't like that we didn't get more narration and a better way to understand what the movie was saying. Main character needed to talk to himself, and help audience along some ... I think. Movie would have been A+, but I think it is a A- or B+. I wanted to love it, and I do -- for the characters. I just wanted more, though ...
@@PoeLemic that is exactly how I feel about the movie
rediculous movie that should haver never come out!
good answer. good movie
beau travail blew me away but this one just seemed like a half baked aesthetic knock off of solaris
She clearly don't understand what's she's talking about.... The movie was a waste of time.
OPEN ENDINGS ARE SUCH BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. The movie could've much more potential than this
I disagree homegirl. Open endings allow the audience to project their own conclusion onto the story, which make for a more interesting and thought provoking experience to me.
@@loto5919 Sorry, I usually would agree with you, loto. But, I think MyF is right. It needed more clarity, finality, and definition at ending and in some plot points. I caught myself few times mentally falling behind the story, but I liked it -- maybe more appreciated it. But, I could have loved it, and I wanted to -- just not sure that I do, after ending and few bits of non-cohesiveness that made me struggle (like now) to understand where my 2 hours went.
This is what happens when you try to make an artistic movie but you're not artistic. An incredibly botched movie from a horrificly untalented and uncreative director. If Rob wasn't in that movie it would of easily been one of the worst movies ever made
You obviously don't know who she is
@@stepanvalek3363 I'm aware
@@gothelvis3541 then I find you calling her untalented and uncreative very peculiar
@@stepanvalek3363 I don't care. High Life was her chance to prove she was a credible director with creative ideas and it was 2 hours of pretentious trash that Rob carried.
@@gothelvis3541 Wait so have you seen any other movies by her? Because if not, I feel kinda sad that you're judging her whole career based on one movie
The movie was dumb and pointless. Don't waste your time. Nothing exciting about it.
*no likes* ...
Rock-Solid ... BUt, it could have been. Director needed to rework some of the plot points and flesh it out more, even slow down certain points. And, have some narration. This will not be remembered as favorably as it could have been. I am trying to like it, more appreciate it, I guess. But, it could have been a LOVE AFFAIR, like me and Event Horizon. But, no, I'm left with a murky ending and plot points that didn't give me much clarity in very crucial spots. So, that's why I am here, trying to figure out the ending & how to see what happened.
The stupidest movie I've ever seen
This movie idiotic. Wasted my time watching to the end to make sense of it. Skip this movie and watch Jacob's latter. High life has no artistic merit. I'm not sure what these actors were smoking when they signed onto this crap film.