Conspiracy, Culture, and Hollywood | Under The Silver Lake Analysis

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  • @mrinalkantinath1271
    @mrinalkantinath1271 4 роки тому +116

    This movie is like a video game. The protagonist follows the clue and gets the truth without much of a consequences unlike the true world. The other characters in the movie are like nonexistent and only appear to give clues to the protagonist when asked. A particular scene where sam jumps over the wall to enter songwriter's resident, the dustbins are like there to assist him for that purpose

    • @koslisted9458
      @koslisted9458 2 роки тому +11

      Funny the three shooting star girls had the NPC Side Quest vibe about them on the walk to the Music Mans place.

    • @MrTehDBear
      @MrTehDBear Рік тому +2

      Just saw this movie Finally thanks to another youtuber talking about it. I had this same thought about the trash cans. There was something smaller next to them as well, like there would be in a game. There was another scene where he jumped a wall and there was a rock perfectly placed for him to step on. I thought it was weird as it was a short wall that didn't need one since Andrew was tall enough to hp it anyway but maybe they put it there to make it just a bit easier on him. I usually never get pulled out of movies with thoughts like that but that one hit me. Probably because I was already wondering how much of the movie was even real to begin with.

  • @rafi_mota
    @rafi_mota 4 роки тому +65

    When i finished watching this movie i was like "Ok...great movie, awesome photography, but that's it."
    The next few days i kept processing all of it and was getting more and more interesting to me, and now i can definitively say that UTSL is one of my favorite movies.

    • @XmAn22222
      @XmAn22222 3 роки тому +4

      😂 had to rewatch it too and it made more sense

    • @futuristicgirl14
      @futuristicgirl14 2 роки тому +4

      Same! I finished it like what a pretty but weird film, and the more it sank in the more I wanted to rewatch it

  • @happinesstan
    @happinesstan 2 роки тому +16

    The message of the film is as transparent as the treasure map "hidden" in the box of breakfast cereal. If we take this film, and place it over an earlier map, we get another clue to the message. That earlier map could be Mulholland Drive, but the style of UTSL references MD from the beginning, so it's likely a different film. A film released n 1988 [the time of release for issue #1 of NPM. 'They Live' was released in 1988 and might be hinted at in the contact lens billboard.

    • @MysticMayne
      @MysticMayne 2 роки тому +2

      I bought this and Mulholland Drive in 4K a week prior to reading this, thats crazy to me.

  • @user-di8hm2jl2u
    @user-di8hm2jl2u 2 роки тому +24

    Best analysis so far. Nothing is organic about our culture, it is planned and marketed. We put way too much stock in it and drive some sort of importance from it when it means absolutely nothing compared to life’s problems for example the fact that this character is soon to be homeless. All of us are Narcissistic in our own ways just like he believes that there is a message for him to discover in art that is mass marketed for the population.

  • @punishedf
    @punishedf 2 роки тому +51

    In all the analysis I see, most people make the mistake of taking this movie as a realistic story while everything is surreal and allegoric. I see people talking about schizophrenia or hallucinations, but this movie is just not based in reality. For insurance the songwriter is not really a songwriter, it's the representation of fame, the message is that it doesn't matter if you have a rebellious image like James Dean or Cobain, you are still the system, all the musical hits are written by the pursuit of fame. The scene ends with the ending Fight Club theme, which the perfect representation of the system selling you the revolt against the system.
    And when they talk about heaven after death, that's not a cult reference, they still talk about fame. The only way to survive death is to be remembered like a celebrity, while we will all be forgotten as if we never existed. That is a real afterlife as they say in the movie.
    The protagonist has easy access to sex and no consequence for his violence cause he represents the viewers, the movie viewers that like passive voyeur look for sex and violence in the movies, later they revel that the system itself creates these needs to fulfill them.
    The protagonist also has and use money the whole time, he just don't want to pay for his house cause he wants to lose it, he subconscious wants to cut with his delusional past ruled by the media agenda.
    The dogs are obviously not real dogs as well, they represent the blind love for someone, the celebrities fans that never question the system.
    The movie is a about the new anti Hollywood movement that started in the crazy conspiracy theories and ended up revealing Weighstin and far worse that is still undisclosed.

    • @aamesworld
      @aamesworld Рік тому +1

      Nice job 👏

    • @haitiankid9456
      @haitiankid9456 Рік тому +1

      Then the “crazy conspiracy theories “ aren’t so crazy…

    • @skydeuel
      @skydeuel 4 місяці тому

      Disagree

  • @comichero2228
    @comichero2228 4 роки тому +24

    I’ve been looking for an analysis on this film for awhile and this was refreshing. I think you make great points and create an argument that shows the deeper truths of the film. I’d love to see a deeper, potentially longer, analysis on the film if you ever choose to in the future. Good stuff. And good use of Remo Drive.

    • @paradoxlust
      @paradoxlust 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/FTOQWkOD9Nw/v-deo.html

  • @joshportnoy8102
    @joshportnoy8102 3 роки тому +24

    The references are so blatantly obvious, made me suspicious from the get-go lol. The topless lady with the parrot, is from The Long Goodbye, then there's all the Eyes Wide Shut references (owl-lady, secret party, when the girl takes him downstairs to dance), when he watches the girl through the window, and then observes the girls by the lake, that's Chinatown. When he passes out from his drink, the Maltese Falcon. There are probably hommages in there to every major detective movie ever made.

  • @corey2011ARTS
    @corey2011ARTS 5 років тому +22

    Really interesting analysis. The relationship with art/artists given the current sociopolitical climate in the entertainment industry is a great point. How our culture is defined by people we would now say are bad people and all that goes along with that. Great video!

    • @aamesworld
      @aamesworld Рік тому

      Yep and to add that’s why nothing is that simple or black and white. Because beauty can manifest from ugliness if that makes sense. Two random examples: Home is where you’re happy by Charles Manson. The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski (which was made and won an Oscar for best directing while he was a fugitive for fleeing from his sexual crime conviction)

  • @heyitsvonage2768
    @heyitsvonage2768 4 роки тому +32

    This movie was so interesting to me, because the protagonist is written to be so unique. He's not a guy you would like at all, but you want to see what he will do next. His personality quirks mean he'll do lots of weird, questionable shit most people would NOT do in the same situations... Sort of reminds me of Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Nightcrawler, except Sam's creepiness isn't as obvious to everyone he meets, so he gets away with a lot more in the eyes of the other characters.

  • @tawdryhepburn4686
    @tawdryhepburn4686 5 років тому +7

    This is a great channel. I’m baffled by how few subs you have! Happy to be number 40!

  • @henrynygaard-tap4247
    @henrynygaard-tap4247 3 роки тому +11

    I would like to see more on the owl's kiss part of the movie

  • @simonh7339
    @simonh7339 2 роки тому +4

    The most surprising thing about this is that its two and a half hours long. I watched it a few nights ago really enjoyed it. Did not feel like two and a half hours. I dont think he was the dog murderer.

  • @sermycahwhent4165
    @sermycahwhent4165 2 роки тому +4

    You're the only one with the balls enough to say the word "suicide" in your videos. UA-cam wouldn't be so lame if more channels were like yours. You deserve more views.

  • @jflu79
    @jflu79 3 роки тому +9

    Sure looks like what we are living thru 🤷‍♀️

  • @wymanTV
    @wymanTV 5 років тому +11

    it’s all real!!!!

  • @Dollar_Store_Cacodemon
    @Dollar_Store_Cacodemon 2 роки тому +2

    There's so much going on in this film drawing from all kinds of areas that it is very difficult to pack it all together in a nice, easy to explain way. There is no ultimate solution to the film. There isn't supposed to be. Just like Sam, if you start digging into this analysis too much, you too are going to end up disappointed if you think you're going to get the big secret at the bottom of the well of what this film is supposed to be all about. Reminds me off some of Lynch's films. I think you can draw parallels with it to Blue Velvet. Both lead characters go on an obsessive mission of discovery after going beneath the surface of the community they live in to find a whole new world of bizarre stuff they had no previous clue about.

  • @outsidetesseract6389
    @outsidetesseract6389 4 роки тому +8

    bet this is a treat the cabals give their sheeple: " oh you want to know about us? here is a little snippet for you, lmao as if it will change anything."

    • @ducoo6212
      @ducoo6212 4 роки тому +6

      yeah , they make films like this one to show us what they are actually doing to all of us directly in our face and nobody can do a shit against

    • @deancheck6345
      @deancheck6345 4 роки тому

      @@ducoo6212 but this isn't a Hollywood movie at all, in fact this movie probably got dumped from theaters because it makes fun and reveals hollywood's actions to some degree. This movie was definitely not made by a major hollywood studio

    • @its_meenay
      @its_meenay 2 роки тому

      @@ducoo6212 ikr

    • @marialee2768
      @marialee2768 Рік тому

      ​@deancheck6345 but its made by a24 which is a big studio

  • @eternalself
    @eternalself 8 місяців тому

    So at first I misenterpreted when he was scrubbing his face after the skunk incident. I kind of zoned out and thought he had blood all over his face, and she was holding her nose because of a nosebleed. I thought this implied that he was hiding a violent nature, but we were only shown the good parts or public face. This violent tendency is later confirmed when he kills the artist… Did anyone else pick up on this? Maybe I just haven’t seen skunk spray before because it looked red

  • @ccm800
    @ccm800 3 роки тому +5

    I think Sam is just sinking into Schizophrenia

  • @josephpayne9011
    @josephpayne9011 Рік тому +2

    man i have a major crush on balloon girl

  • @whiterose3263
    @whiterose3263 4 роки тому +1

    Keep an open mind. And hope for the best possible thing....for everyone

  • @legiongamer-works-podcaster
    @legiongamer-works-podcaster 3 роки тому +3

    after watching this film half of me felt weird and other half felt confused Garfield is a great actor but felt bad when he had these bad luck moments from the squirrel to smelling like a skunk to women barking at him ;/

  • @rodion9238
    @rodion9238 5 місяців тому

    Great analysis, really expanded my understading of the film

  • @slimshady4life689
    @slimshady4life689 Рік тому +3

    so there are a few things I'm still confused about. Is Sam the Dog Killer? Were the dreams he had a sign of his mental illness? In the scene where Sam is in the bathroom, and he got his nuts kicked the ladies come in and start barking at him. Are they actually barking? or were they yelling at him but in Sam's mind they were acting like crazed barking dogs so that's what we saw. I feel like the answers are open to interpretation, but I still had to ask to get someone else's opinion. I think it's very likely that Sam is the Dog Killer, but I think it's also weird to include that in the movie if it has no connection to the main story. It's really not even hinted that he is the Dog Killer. He claims to have owned a dog that died recently at the start of the movie yet he got bit by a dog when he was younger so he says he's scared of them but then he's petting Sarah's dog and giving it treats and keeping treats in his pocket so he can pet and feed the dog when he sees it again. Very contradictory and doesn't make any sense. The end of the movie really has no point. Sam buys OJ and crackers, a combo that sarah said everyone has to try once before they die so I'm assuming he expected to be killed. He fucks the bird lady something that he also probably wanted to do before he died and yet the movie just ends with him standing on a balcony smoking a cigarette watching the landlord and cop in his apartment. My only interpretation of this is that nothing comes from finding the truth behind the conspiracy theory. Once you do life just goes back to normal. Sorry for the rant, these are just my final thoughts of the movie. any feedback on what other people think is Definitely wanted.

  • @zanzer386
    @zanzer386 Рік тому

    “You ain’t shit” 😂😂😂that had me howling. Great breakdown

  • @bryantgillins3510
    @bryantgillins3510 4 роки тому +3

    I enjoyed your perspective, thanks for the video. I'm curious, what's up with the Albert Pike portrait overlay though?

    • @hamishspencer
      @hamishspencer 4 роки тому +1

      It's not Pike, it's Marx. I suspect the OP is saying that socialism is how we can stop people like Epstein and Weinstein. I disagree. Still I enjoyed the video.

    • @paradoxlust
      @paradoxlust 4 роки тому

      This is significant signaling sent to those whom you speak so shortly of. In layers and layers.
      ua-cam.com/video/FTOQWkOD9Nw/v-deo.html
      I explained it (in my own words) in the comments there. Layers ley line after line.

  • @AyitaIam
    @AyitaIam 3 роки тому +1

    Never heard of this movie,but now I'm looking 4

  • @Tyler_W
    @Tyler_W Рік тому

    You mentioned hiw he's mentallt unwell and possibly a bit disturbed. Considering the futility of learning everything he came to know, I think it's a telling testament to his general dysfunction that he would rather hyper fixate on a massive conspiracy than adress the problems right in front of him. He can tenaciously and sometimes cleverly sus out the inner workings of an interconnected elite conspiracy, but he does so because in his own life, he just doesn't know how to deal with the mundane issues of aimlessness, lack of meamingful relationships, amd getting rent money.

  • @iyona14granturismogt6gtspo7
    @iyona14granturismogt6gtspo7 3 місяці тому

    Whoa!! Holy shit that's Sydney Sweeney @5:00 !!!

  • @JozeeWalz
    @JozeeWalz Рік тому

    Loved it. It stuck with me. Andrew's best imo.
    But what about that pirate??

  • @bardw.3204
    @bardw.3204 4 роки тому +6

    Short, but the best analysis on UA-cam.

    • @crappymcdick
      @crappymcdick 4 роки тому

      Well then you need to watch this one ua-cam.com/video/Ch8atGXe1yQ/v-deo.html

  • @happinesstan
    @happinesstan 2 роки тому +1

    What CAN you do with that information? The only thing that has the reach to spread such information is the media.

  • @its_meenay
    @its_meenay 2 роки тому

    I watched this movie only fir Andrew Garfield but now i can get my mind off it
    It’s horrific and so weird but makes u go into this crisis about what is even happening

  • @jessicavermaelen2100
    @jessicavermaelen2100 2 роки тому +1

    I HATED this movie while I was watching it. But I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Now it’s in my top 5 Andrew Garfield movies.

  • @Thespeedrap
    @Thespeedrap Рік тому

    I think my opinion is that a small fraction of people control the majority of what we hear see and follow.And usually it's not who we think.

  • @ericfrederickson555
    @ericfrederickson555 2 роки тому +2

    Hidden in plain site. Are covenants real? My take …. Just for fun. Chic is being initiated or is a recruiter. Popping the balloons was a display of a group kill lady in red at the party. The song writer well… that’s a given. Will just call him a body jumper. But alister crawley didn’t any rituals 🧐

    • @lustalgia...
      @lustalgia... 2 роки тому +3

      nailed it dude and of course the tunnel systems that are indeed used for child sex trafficking , also in plain sight. Crowley, ritual mockery, souls to sell to the belly of the beast. Hellwod

  • @askholia
    @askholia 7 місяців тому

    Im pretty sure that when Sam kills the 'Songwriter' he really was murdering the comic book creator. After that he falls into such a delusional state he puts together an entire conspiracy that he thinks he followed, but it was all in his head since he is schizophrenic. He is def the dog killer too. I think the Owl's Kiss was a new persona he took on to explain the killings.

  • @hughsmitham722
    @hughsmitham722 Рік тому

    Great analysis, pretty much my take.

  • @chrismitchell559
    @chrismitchell559 Рік тому

    I just watched it to see him fight those kids...

  • @johnnymclaneutah
    @johnnymclaneutah 3 роки тому +5

    7:20 when you talk to normies about something important and they give you that fluoride stare

  • @nicoblaytherealflamingo445
    @nicoblaytherealflamingo445 2 роки тому +1

    Its me. True story is he wakes up in jail la county for a sex crime that never happend and had to wait 4 years and found out his life was filmed in Paramount lot and pasadena whittier simulacrum

  • @happinesstan
    @happinesstan 4 місяці тому

    You say Sam is a voyeur, but where could he look to avoid such an accusation? I suspect that the opening scene deliberately implies that Sam is staring at the two girls, in order to place us in a position of judgement for the rest of the film, which we see through the eyes of Sam's subconscious.
    Once we have seen the film, we understand that Sam's real obsession is cracking codes. And he is more than likely interpreting the morse code message, written on the menu.

  • @shadowaccount
    @shadowaccount 10 місяців тому

    Separating the artist from their antics doesn't mean you have to support them. It doesn't matter what they have done or what they do.

  • @sweetdailysoundinside8766
    @sweetdailysoundinside8766 4 роки тому +3

    Nice one !
    Why there is so few peoples in LA??? No tourist etc...

  • @haydenyoung668
    @haydenyoung668 2 роки тому +2

    Yo you need to let your mind go a little further down the rabbit hole bud...

  • @speederrrrr
    @speederrrrr 3 роки тому

    nailed it

  • @jflu79
    @jflu79 3 роки тому +5

    What is a "conspiracy theory"? Especially since knowing the words were made to discredit.

    • @allittakes
      @allittakes 3 роки тому +2

      That’s right. This film sort of misses that crucial point... the gaming comparisons are ridiculous. As much as this film appears to say there are hidden networks and histories it also seems to say - forget about it and nothing will ever change ! Blackpilled shit

  • @WitsEnds
    @WitsEnds 5 років тому

    Barton Peak

  • @gustavoadolfoguardado9101
    @gustavoadolfoguardado9101 3 роки тому +1

    👌👌👌👌👌

  • @VictorAdad
    @VictorAdad 4 роки тому

    niceee

  • @AraCod
    @AraCod 4 роки тому +8

    You are so off. The songwriter, encoder is Lucifer. See unplugem song writer's secret series. Peace

    • @breakingbadfunnymoments1748
      @breakingbadfunnymoments1748 4 роки тому +1

      This is their interpretation

    • @jammyjamz89
      @jammyjamz89 3 роки тому +7

      I agree. So many symbols missed by everyone. Only the conspiracy theorists caught the milk sacrifice reference. Or the butterfly monarch in the girls apartment in the beginning of the film.... They played off conspiracy in general while attempting to portray them as millennial incels who cause their own downfall. So sad when I watched it.

  • @adityanarayan5943
    @adityanarayan5943 4 роки тому +2

    Who killed the girl in the reservoir??

    • @edencantu6599
      @edencantu6599 3 роки тому +3

      Owls kiss

    • @its_meenay
      @its_meenay 2 роки тому +3

      @@edencantu6599 and who was that

    • @TucoRope2Tight
      @TucoRope2Tight 2 роки тому +1

      No one. Her death under the water has the same shot as his Playboy mag cover. Dude just lost it, or a dream / fantasy or whatever. You can't take everything you see in that movie literally.

  • @jordenkadlec696
    @jordenkadlec696 3 роки тому +1

    Research Donald Marshall.

  • @fuqupal
    @fuqupal 2 роки тому +2

    I didn't like it

  • @joesmith201212
    @joesmith201212 2 роки тому

    all I have to say there were some really hot girls in the movie!!! Holy lord! that balloon girl was so cute.... and then even Sydney Sweeney was in this! Oh man this movie was beautiful girl heaven!

  • @TheFourthWinchester
    @TheFourthWinchester 3 роки тому +4

    This movie was so boring.

    • @RockLibertyWarrior
      @RockLibertyWarrior 3 роки тому +1

      Because your impatient and stupid, the movie was lampooning people like you and that is the reason why you didn't like it. Just admit it.

    • @jt3486
      @jt3486 3 роки тому +5

      What, not enough car chase scenes?

    • @TheFourthWinchester
      @TheFourthWinchester 3 роки тому

      @@jt3486 Go watch F9 kid.

    • @skyblaze2156
      @skyblaze2156 2 роки тому

      @@jt3486 I get the message but I'm with dude this movie was very boring and I really wanted to love it

  • @DJ_InYourFace
    @DJ_InYourFace Рік тому

    So.. pro-Marx?

    • @holydiver73
      @holydiver73 Рік тому

      Yes, obviously a clueless doichebag if he supports Marx and communism.

  • @RamReddy-xv9hx
    @RamReddy-xv9hx 2 роки тому

    Its too boring n predictable movie 😪

    • @skyblaze2156
      @skyblaze2156 2 роки тому

      Predictable idk but boring yes. I tried so hard and wanted to like this movie I get the message but fuck it was boring