What Under The Silver Lake is Really About
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2022
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The world of Under the Silver Lake seems... off. Whats going on? And what does it all mean? Is Under the Silver Lake simply a film about a man decoding a modern day conspiracy theory in the heart of LA? Or is there a deeper meaning beneath the surface? Sam's journey not only uncovers truths about his surroundings, but truths about himself, that by the end of the film he must face up to. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
The film plays out like a video game plot. Everything seems to conveniently connect together. The conspiracy stuff and codes all perfectly line up. The characters around him all seem like NPCs too. Every woman is hot and seemingly interested in Sam sexually even when he looks like shit dressed in his PJs at a fancy party. Because of all this, I think its almost all a delusion. A film set inside the head of someone who has no purpose. A lost soul desperately searching for meaning in his life. Bit like Travis Bickle or The Narrator in Fight Club perhaps.
I agree with this. I was watching it thinking of how it's Super Mario - not only is that game shown, but there are hidden levels, underground levels, an underwater level, a boss to kill, a castle, a king and a princess to save. I also wondered about how some people don't mention his smell, and others do. I think this detail differentiates the real people from the illusions - possibly the ones who quip on his smell are figments of his imagination, seeing as these characters aren't actually connected to any of the other characters in the film.
It's partly inspired by old Lusasarts adventure games like Zak Mckraken and Monkey Island.
Correct. The movie is the fantasy world of a mentally ill drug addicted homeless person. Its all in his imagination. At the end, he kills himself and goes to be with his mother, who is dead.
This analysis ties everything up nicely for me. I was also quite confused as to why he was in a bath tub with water and.. tomato soup. If anyone reading this feels the same; apparently it's a 'grandma cure' for skunk smell. I never would've known, I've never seen a skunk in my area.
Really? I feel kinda old haha, pretty sure it was a pop culture caricature of grandma cure for skunk smell, and I mean famous in pop culture as im sure I’ve seen it plenty times in the simpsons or stuff like that
Gummo reference tomatoes = spaghetti 🍝 sequence in gummo.
sounds like you must of been one of those "fancy" indoor kids we heard about growing up
Holy crap bro that was seriously amazing analysis, hope to see you gain more subs soon!
Thanks so much brother
YES, THANK YOU! It is ridiculous how many people sailed right past the point of this film and started tearing apart every bit and it's funny to see that the film itself has all these hidden codes but in the end, they don't lead to anything new, you don't gain anything and still people miss the point that obsessing over this won't help them and they should let go!
The music in this movie and I’m talking about the score not the songs, the score is very…… different. Like old school Batman or something.
Reminded me of Trumbo or Taxi Driver
I love this, it really helped to recontextualise my understanding of this film. I wasn't too keen on it initially, but I think it does have a lot of merit when you look at it in this way, as an archetypal example of a "neo-neo-noir". It is certainly a rare sub-genre, but perhaps "Mulholland Drive" is also one such film. I would love to do a podcast on this once I get around to re-watching it.
For sure dude
When my young slacker friend, who never could get his shit together, told me he had abandoned all his possessions and shacked up with a much older bird-lady who always goes around topless, I was so relieved! I knew that now he had finally matured and was on the road to self-healing...
Well made analysis. Keep it up fam 🎉
Thank you for helping me solve a couple of things on this movie that felt out of place first watch for me! Great analysis!
Solid analysis, you've really thought this through and this compels me to watch it again sometime soon with your analysis in mind. Subscribed and interested to see more from you in terms of recommendations and analyses.
Thanks appreciate it
This is the best analysis I have seen on this film! This really is one of those rare films where you always find something new every time you revisit it
I finally saw this one tonight and, yeah, awesome review.
Even the "owl" on the dollar is a suggestion of pareidolia.
If you study these old damask-like patterns, it's probably just the edge of a leaf or another bud on the stem, but because the author tells him to look for an owl, see an owl, our brains can configure it through suggestion.
Great review.
Actually the owl on the united states dollar bill is totally legit, although I have no idea if what UTSL states as the possible reason behind it has any merit or not lol. Just know it's an odd random fact about the 1$ bill.
I’m not even gonna watch this now, I have to rewatch the film again first since it’s been a while. But I wanted to share that I just watched your video on Scorsese, which was fantastic, and was now so happy to see a video of yours on “Under the Silver Lake”, which I love, and I’m assuming you appreciate as well. Cheers.
Very good analysis!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR INTERPRETATION! Man I had a bunch of loose ideas and opinions but you put a lot of them together in a cohesive way and added your own, perfect
Great video!
Great analysis, I subscribed
Appreciate it
Great breakdown bro
mayb the most underrated movie ever
Its a difficult movie about fear of love, and the wrong vision of love... but Blue Velvet made this 40 years before with a 10X better movie
@@Chalobah17 i saw blue velvet and hated it, mayb its the seperation of eras
@@arlwav blue velvet is a True Masterpiece... Under The silver lake is a very good movie 4/5. David Lynch is a master
@@Chalobah17 yeah mulholland drive was unreal, idk y blue velvet i didnt like, mayb ill revisit it sometime
Fantastic analysis.
Awesome analysis. I would say the ending was less triumphed and more status quo. He pursued the neighbor purely to know what the bird was saying. He's still toxic, just moved on to a different lead
Great video essay, to add to the mystique of your analysis- your video is banned by A24 in USA or at least that's what the pop-up said when I tried to play it, and I was only able to watch it with a VPN turned on. I wonder wh...ehh not that rabbit hole again! Cheers mate.
I loved this film! Just finished watching it.
Exactly, the dog killer's identity is a red herring, and trying to find it diverges people from looking at the deeper symbolic meaning of the dog killer
nice work
Thank you
Big Lebowski's remake of Big Sleep is only in a noir genre we have a stoner detective who investigates the upper crust of LA, and here young hipster investigates the upper crust of LA. Also grave of Hitchcock in movie and particularly reference to Rear window movie
best analysis
when he saw people barked at him, has anything to do with the fact that he unconsciously blocks all the ideologies and messages people are yelling and repeating over and over? and because of that it sounds like everyone is not only talking over eachother without listening but saying the same thing, which turns it meaningless and vague
That is a way more optimistic takeaway than I ever had, but I respect that interpretation! Incredible analysis!
It's obvious the reviewer has never read Carroll Quigley, nor watched the incredible documentary "The Minds of Men".
thanks
You said he can't escape LA. But the movie pairs that with a shot of the Hollywood sign. It's not LA he can't escape, its Hollywood (which is what my subtitles tell me the parrot is saying at the end). Is he accepting "reality"? Or is he accepting the illusion Hollywood is selling? Does his watching the Janet Graynor film symbolize he is growing up? Or is he becoming more of a mama's boy than ever (as he goes and sleeps with the mother aged neighbor immediately after)?
Probably accepting Hollywood, especially the bad side
nice
The subs for the parrot in the end says "Hollywood"
One of the best movies i have ever watched
good video
love this film. Fans should check out DRM first feature - The myth of the american sleepover - its a great coming of age film.
I feel attacked.
This movie is essentially a character study on Qanon type people lmao. I love it so much.
Wayment... I watched this whole video and there wasn't any mention of the songwriter. Tut tut...
Yeah, it´s all nice and well, but what was the parrot saying? It is the key!
The translation - when subtitles is on -, reads "Hollywood"; the same is in the original script.
American Psycho is to alpha business men as this is to conspiracy-believing weed smokers.
Nice analysis, however you missed ALL the codes left in the movie.
Cause it was made just for you to go after the mystery, because you have nothing better to do in your life. No wonder the subreddit is still active. The actual plot is the one he exposed in the video.
@@redrum6862 word.
He’s the dog killer, what that symbolism means I don’t know, but he’s the dog killer. Also he was going to kill the girls dog. Also the hating homeless people thing has to mean something too. I also think he was the one who killed the writer, he scoped out person and place cuz of the comic talking about him the dog killer. He went there then went back to kill him when he had gotten his trust on a second meeting or maybe even unreliable narrator first time. He then went back to retrieve the evidence recordings.
there are DOZENS of clues pointing in that direction. I was trying to find the video where I first posted this list to add a bunch more clues, but these alone are more than enough to prove it as far as i'm concerned... just watching another video, I saw him wearing a teeshirt with an alligator and a person swimming underwater. he's the gator that eats rich girl. alligators are known to eat dogs who drink unsuspecting. here's SOME proof:
- women in the movie bark LIKE DOGS at him
- he carries a dog bisquit
- he does his girlfriend DOGGIE STYLE
- the "homeless man" (really HIM I believe) tells him to FOLLOW RARE COYOTES (celebrities) while stalking dogs (ugly women and/or "beaches") is "normal"
- he's there when "rich girl" (the coyote he stalked and who says SOMEONE IS FOLLOWING ME) gets shot after refusing to have sex with him
- the dog killer comic book sticks to HIS "spiderman hand"!!!!
- he sees "her" (his alter ego) 3 times... (small world... with a small hole in his window no one could fit through)
- he doesn't actually leave, when he sees her IN HIS HOME (another NOT coincidence) because he gets kicked out, he IMAGINES the threat of the landlord or cops showing up. they are PROJECTIONS in his mind in the apartment that isn't actually his! he sleeps in parks, graveyards and tunnels where he's king, or pharaoh
- he's whacked out on conspiracy theories that DISTRACT the viewer from all the stalking and attacking he does including kids
- he very clearly kills songwriter on one of his break and enters and has no remorse over it
- he masturbated to the "drowned girl" playboy book cover that gets revisited when rich girl gets shot and does a similar pose. he's into necro
- all of the celebs that get mentioned in the movie are dead and many under controversial circumstances like marilyn monroe in sarah's movie
- kurt cobain comes up several times in the movie. the nirvana "nevermind" record cover with the underwater baby is very similar to the playboy cover
- the dog killer kills naked... he's naked when rich girl dies, when he "doggies" his GF,
- sarah, who he SPIES ON and goes on a STALKING SPREE for (creepy how he freaked out over a gal he JUST MET moving out, like she owes him something) has A DOG for which he carries said bisquits
- the comic book is "locally produced" (possibly HIS)
- I believe he kills his GF "the actress" as she's in the bathroom with him talking about how he stinks in the RED FILLED tub. where he killed her, or took her afterwards
- there are CONSTANT death references in the film eg. jesus (died) and his undead vampire backup singers
- both he and his friend are TOTALLY indifferent to the woman they're SPYING ON under what looks like death threats scaring the crap out of her. nope, they don't care about her distress
- the dog killer sign is seen from the INSIDE of the restaurant and is backwards, making me think the story is told in reverse. he gets the gun after killing songwriter and THEN can shoot rich girl... the "girl of his dreams" just like the playboy cover and the nirvana cover
- the story in the movie "his mother taped for him" is very similar to UTSL. *Seventh Heaven* it’s about a prostitute who *gets saved from violence by a gutter cleaner*, then falls in love with him before he goes to war. (just the kind of movie a man getting calls from a dead mother might have seen)
- a delusional paranoid would have crazy conspiracy theories. it was funny how he all of a sudden becomes an "expert code breaker" using random items, and even manages to figure out the initials stand for that gaming magazine which he CONVENIENTLY has a copy of!
- as someone mentions in another reply, he says he hates dogs.
- he seems enamored by celebrities and money... things a homeless psycho would covet
- he wakes up in a cemetery by a tombstone (thought it was janet gaynor's) along with trash... another destination for murder victims
- sarah EVENTUALLY winds up ENTOMBED with 6 months worth of supplies. MAYBE he dragged her to HIS TUNNEL, but either way, she will die (she's naked in the pool and barks)
- after leaving "his (?) apartment" as a HOMELESS MAN (backwards sign!), he moves on to HIS NEXT VICTIM he's been spying on... another (half) NAKED character.
- I think the signed nirvana poster is really “the acress’” in her home that he invaded
- I think the cereal (killer!) box map is REALLY a "map of the stars", his preferred targets
It feels like a companion piece to Lynch's last three films (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire)
It's definitely about the problematic role of young women in Hollywood.
THATS NOT EAST LA
Orale homes
Hamburgers are love....wow, Sam is really moving on and accepting reality
always surprises me how much people look into films for deeper meaning, while i generally just take them at face value, i love this movie for its vibe, im not looking for a message about self improvement or misogyny in hollywood, I couldnt care less
i enjoy Polanski movies like The Ghostwriter and The Ninth Gate, but i find it difficult to describe what it is I like about them properly, its like an escape into a cool world with an interesting mystery, I find it relaxing and therapeutic
i appreciate the chill atmosphere and immersion these directors can create, rather than any hidden message theyre trying to deliver, ironically I guess in the case of UTSL
was he the dog killer though?
No
I think Sam.
About 99% of this happened in his head. He is a paranoid schizophrenic. He is the dog killer. The owl woman is imaginary and symbolizes suicide. He only saw her at his absolute lowest when he made it back to his apartment and she never touched him because she wasn’t real, he even peaked in his fucking sock drawer to look for her. The three women adoring over a millionaire in a bunker is a twisted version of the movie he watched earlier. He smells bad not due to a skunk but because his schizophrenic and very common problem for them is they smell absolutely awful and do not remember to bathe. The homeless king at the end was a cop questioning him, see the star on his chest and his tone asking about the biscuits. Everything that he “figures out” about this giant conspiracy theory is solved by shit he already has lying around his apartment. The bird at the end is saying “not a friend. Not a friend. Not a friend”. He also has red paint laying in his apartment.This is way out of order I know but there is a lot of shit like this in the movie.
"owl woman" is the dog killer from the comic book, his alter ego. I'm happy to see now at least 2 other people are able to think outside the cereal killer box (see what i did there?)
Great analysis. But Lord it was a terrible film
because you were watching it for a conventional story. i am not a fan of murder mystery AT ALL, but all of the rabbit holes the film leads one down are VERY thought provoking. the film is genius on that count as i can't get the riddles and clues out of my head
Is Sam the dog killer?
Move on don't think too much