The Shining and The Lighthouse: The Horror of Isolation | Video Essay
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2020
- In this video essay we discuss the similarities between Robert Egger's "The Lighthouse" and Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and their depiction of cabin fever as well as their inspiration from classical greek mythology.
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This was a great video! I definitely noticed a lot of similarities. The Lighthouse was fantastic and definitely stands up to The Shinning.
Oh man, this is so cool!! The Shining is my favorite horror film of all-time and The Lighthouse is my favorite film of the last year and my favorite horror film of the past decade. This is such an amazing analysis!
The transition from The Lighthouse to the Shining at 1:03 is so clean. Excellent analysis. Well structured video. Everything flowed together nicely.
You should make an entire episode solely on companion films. I just recently watched Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Apocalypse Now back-to-back and noticed some odd similarities. They are quite the companion films for anyone interested in having some sort of marathon.
I did the same but with Sicario and No Country for Old Men
I had the flu the first time I watched Aguirre and now whenever I try to watch it I get sick to my stomach :(
The Lighthouse reveals more and more of itself in repeated viewings which makes it a lot like The Shining
Fantastic pacing, analysis, and editing. Inspiring me to create video essays of my own. Kudos.
There’s probably a lot more that can be compared about both films, and honestly, the Greek mythology stuff makes the lighthouse make way more sense to me than it ever did. Great video!
Fantastic insights. I hope to see more from your channel. Keep the great content coming!
PS. Your editing of the axe attacks is wonderful!
This was an amazing, very well done and thoughtful analysis. I agree with everything you said, with the exception of the fact that the experiences of Cabin Fever in these two fantastic films mirror our experiences during Covid. I understand that to be the case for some, but for myself and my family, and others we know, it has given us a time to relax and come to terms with who we really are. It has given us the opportunity to exercise, read, write and watch movies a lot more, all of which are hobbies of mine that I used to not have time to do. So definitely, isolation can be good or bad depending on the experience or of course, as they two films prove, who/what you're living with!!
This video deserves a lot more views
Great parallels between the 2 incredible films and the pandemic. Hope to seeing more from you mate.
you are gonna grow and grow becouse you make great reviews I wish you the best
Great video
The shining is such a masterpiece!
Neat comparison! Also, both the Lighthouse and the Hotel each seem to have a life of its own. And both "shine" too. The Lighthouse literally shines and the Hotel has the Shining too according to Dick Hallorann when he said "I guess you could say the Overlook Hotel here has somethin' almost like shining." Additionally, both Jack and Winslow continue a cycle of violence. Both men weren't the first to go insane at those places. And both end up being damned at those places for eternity. After dying, Jack is stuck at the Hotel as one of the its many souls and Winslow is stuck at the Lighthouse being pecked by seagulls.
La Haine and City of God is a dream team of a double feature!
Great video. These are my two of my favorite movies. BTW, where did you find out that the Shining's maze was inspired by the Minotaur myth?
Another double feature idea: Ex Machina and Blade Runner 2049
Arrival and Annihilation
Those are all great movies, but i don't really see the point in matching those as they don't really have a connection in theme but only the same genre. You could instead go for Something like Eyes Wide Shut and Belle de Jour or Enemy and Nocturnal Animals or Blood Simple and Reservoir Dogs or even Rosemary's Baby and The Witch
Stalker and Annihilation go much better together
@allmighty30011 wat?
My two favorite horror movies. The Lighthouse is also my favorite movie oat
I knew it, man, there were just similarities.
I bought “The Greek Plays” to read whilst stuck inside... this makes me want to crack it open 🧐
Speaking of Isolation: You Guys really have to Check out The Lodge, the new film by austrian Filmmakers Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz who already brought to you Goodnight Mommy. The Lodge is superb in every way possible
thanks for the recommandation, just watched the trailer and it looks incredible ! def gonna watch it tonight
@@inesbenoist6761 Tell me how you liked it when you watched it! :)
@@letsscarejessi4742 i will :)
i would also put the master and the lighthouse as double features.
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I hope this guy will make me a son 👏
Pd. Great content man keep it up
The Lighthouse is really the modern “Shining” of cinema.
I personally enjoyed The Lighthouse more than The Shining
Nice use of plague Inc music
I feel like the Lighthouse fixes alot of the issues I had with The Shining.
Donald Jack yeah same. Its much less pretentious
Paul Logan less pretentious? Are you joking? Nothing was pretentious about The Shining, but The Lighthouse was; it was shot in black and white for christ sake it was sooo pretentious. Not that I have a problem with black and white movies I love them, but The Lighthouse being shot in it was very pretentious imo.
@@terrortower666 sorry dude, claiming shooting a film in bw is pretentious means you have no idea what pretentious even means, I suggest you stop taking pointless labels incompetent reviewers throw around on the internet for actual opinions, they're not, and not seeing the purpose the b.w had in the film means having no appreciation for 1) the technical aspects of filmmaking as the cinematography is god tier and 2) much more importantly, the visual language of this film in particular and of film in general, there is a reason movies are still made in b.w and if all you can come up with as to why is "to make them look artsy and old" that's your own problem
@@paullogan3008 Just curious, how is The Shining pretentious?
@@and8091 I hadn’t watched the Shining in a long time when i wrote this. Now I have rewatched it, I can definitely say it’s not “pretentious” but still includes some silly bits in my opinion (like the “all work no play” bit)
Thank God she doesn’t have an axe!
2024??