Nell seems to be the only sane character. She is the only one with a clear perception of the fact that happiness and purpose has evaporated from all their lives. She is the only one who retains a coherent memory of times past. She consequently is the only one who voluntarily lets go of life, realising that life has been lived and should now come to an end. She tries to share this with Nagg, but he is unable to grasp the significance of it. The other characters seem to oscillate between the realisation that everything is pointless and that death is appropriate, and in the next moment they distract themselves by meaningless conversation and games. In addition they are afflicted with amnesia and confusion about what has happened, and if life ever had any value. Absolutely brilliant play, one of my favourites.
As i get older and the blind, headlong emotion of youth fades to be replaced by a kind of reflective contemplation, death loses it's sting and this piece speaks louder every time I watch it.
@@SamuelBlack84 There may be an instinctual truth to that. Knowledge shocks, which is probably why Nietzsche wrote that, "Truth must be approached stealthily." Dunno.
@@KajiCarson Life at its heart has no purpose or meaning and we're all just a bunch of upright monkeys wandering an ancient world and so we look desperately for any kind of distraction to avoid thinking too much
It really hits different when you're affected by mental illness. I read this for theater class and I was struck by how I could find myself in the madness. Now I know it's the whole of humanity instead of just insanity. Not to discredit the other two, but Nagg and Nell's actors just add more tenderness and vulnerability to the characters. Clov's sad expression at the end really adds to it. He's free but he's seeing the only person in his life withering away.
@@Lobsterboy300 then they miss the point. He was the only one, or at least the most skilled, to be bold enough to shine a light into the void, stare it in the face, and find humor in the human condition.
This work in particular illustrates why the world isn't worth living in when you remove an objective center of the universe. It's empty. Explaining the darkness doesn't mean you've illuminated it.
some lines in beckett feel like an absolute gut punch, e.g 1:09:00 "you know what it is? i was never there". also in waiting for godot when pozzo first reveals he is blind
A stunning production. More relevant today than in was in the post war world. We are witnesses to the graying, the corpsing, and the impossible heap making of our pandemic world.
@@nicholasfici805 Is it any different to life in general? Meandering about aimlessly from one petty chore after another while this static, pointless life flows over us like an endlessly flowing river that goes nowhere and we, the little stones lying on the bottom have no reason to exist at all
Thank you so much for posting this. Cannot imagine what Channel 4 (or the BBC, for that matter) would do to this now once it had been through their DEI sausage machine.
It's significant how Clove gets more and more dressed as the day goes on, he starts in a pair of pajamas and a dressing gown, then when he next appears he's wearing a pair of pajamas and cardegan, by the time he's looking at the window at 28:00 he's put on trousers with suspenders
One day you'll say to yourself: 'I'm tired I'll sit down' and you go and sit down. Then you say: 'I'm hungry I get up and get something to eat'.......but you won't get up, and you won't get anything to eat.
@@SamuelBlack84 i know right! Samuel Beckett is just such a genius in his plays. I feel like I have to stop every two seconds just to admire the brilliance of it
@@MrRezillo Although Hamm and Clov are arguing with each other throughout the entire play, I think the real antagonist is silence. The world outside comprises a leaden sea, grey sky, and sand. There are no other people. Therefore, if they were to stop talking to each other they would find themselves drowning in silence. That the pattern of their dialogue is so desultory, the way they quit one subject abruptly and jump to another that seems totally unrelated to the last, is to me evidence that they are afraid of the silence. In other words, it better to argue than to sit there with your own thoughts. Thus I see the pauses as those moments where death pokes its head in, reminding Hamm and Clov that emptiness is all around them, and will be there to engulf them the moment they get tired of talking or decide to part ways. edit: grammar
@@jameslatin2939 Thanks a very astute analysis. I wonder why Beckett, via his characters feared silence so much? I've done a fair amount of meditation and am of the opinion that silence is not a bad thing to be feared. Quite the contrary, actually. Anyway, Clov does leave in the end. What do you make of his seeing a "small boy" out the window? He mentions it an an off-hand matter, not: "Look, there's another human being!" but "there's a robin flying by." Apparently Beckett had some "issues", as a shrink would put it, with his parents, viz Nell and Nagg. Anyway, this play has always fascinated me. I did see it live once.
In addition to David Thewlis as Clov and Michael Gambon as Hamm, Nell is played by the Scottish actress Jean Anderson who died at the age of 93 just a year after starring in this role. Nagg is played by Charles Simon who was also in his nineties when he appeared in this and also died aged 93.
Did you actually read that comment before typing it ?? Unbelievable !
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Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
1:15:32 "I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit." "It’s easy going. When I fall I’ll weep for happiness."
We're born kicking and screaming into an existence that is pointless, miserable and unfulfilling until the day comes when we fade out of existence kicking and screaming. We fear living, but terrified of losing it
@@SamuelBlack84 I was making a joke about the fact that your outlook on life is so bleak. Why do you think you have no friends? What is so scary to you about getting close with other people? Samuel Beckett was a great genius and he had a lot to say about the human condition, but he leaves out joy, love, fun and human connection, don't you deserve to experience those things too? Check out a Van Morrison song called"The meaning of loneliness". It's pretty good at describing what you, I and so many people in the world feel.
Beckett's funniest play perfectly performed. Clov forgets the ladder three times because Peter denied Christ three times. Then Clov remembers the ladder (the cross) only when he doesn't need it. Thanks for posting this work of art.
That was an absolute brilliant adaptation. Honestly, When I read the play it came very close to this in my mind's eye. Powerful, profound, moving and sad.
I use it to fall asleep (along «A Piece of Monologue», «Rough for Theatre II», «Waiting for Godot» and other Beckett plays). The words and paces becomes soothing rythms. They’re well written and played 👌🏼 This one has a bit too much shouting to be pleasant in that way, though.
I don't think there really is anything to understand in this. It is just so bleak, sour and pointless tirade of humanity. Utter pointlessness of human existence.
Why is thanos mentioned in every fucking comment section of every video? Are all you idiots obsessed with the fictional prick? It seriously bores the shit out of me
@@SamuelBlack84 Okay, I won't mention "thanos." Mum's the word! First I'd heard the term, but then I don't read Marvel comics or watch the inflated blockbusters.
But remember what Bon Scott said, "Hell ain't such a bad place to be". Ooops, sorry, the late Bon Scott was talking about his relationship to a certain woman from what I can tell from those pesky AC/DC lyrics. I'm in hell and it's not too bad here and I made it myself, though I did have some help from life itself. Peace.
@@laeticiastudenthalbedel4949 Good luck with that, literally.. contrary to what many folks assert, there's a huge amount of humour in much of the maestro's works, old musical hall gags.
extremely serious and grave subject, the question of all life maybe, and somehow presented in a humorous way that is enjoyable for more than just the subject.
Daunted by the thought of reading the text of this play (for my MA) I wanted to watch it first. And it is not easy to find these days. No-one is selling the DVD. Even the Uni library resources failed to come up with a copy. Bless you, TH-camr, for hosting this version. I had expected to find the play a painful post-modernist expression of pretentiousness only fit for intellectuals. Either this is a really good interpretation (I found it strangely compelling) or I have gone native....
I can relate! Though, it is genuinely a good performance. I would love to own a copy of this work, but for now having it publicly available is the best i could hope for
1:11:50 "In between, however, in the midst of the tumult, we see the glances of two lovers meet longingly: yet why so secretly, fearfully, and stealthily?" World as will and idea
I LOVE IT! It is the insanity that breathes wildly in my mind! The words spoken are the echoes of farce I laugh at whilst not a sound is heard! . I've never laughed harder! This is spectacular!
Inside the skull collective unconsciousness speaks to consciousness it’s the chatter we can’t stop inside our head sometimes goes hundred miles per hour driving us crazy. The past is in the trash we are unable to leave it completely so we can live in the present the two windows are the eyes one see the water the other the earth. Fire the third force is purposely missing. Inside of everyone skull is hell It is a terrifying inside of a human mind as it aproveches death. It is missing because is being extinguished slowly as death approaches. Silence when we are born silence when we die alone.
I agree, a superb TV cinematic version of a stage production. Many people find Samuel Beckett's works depressing. Amongst the deep dark bits there's some brilliant wit and humour, in this I think he's taking the piss out of himself at times. I'd only read this script, didn't see it when it was broadcast.
I'm watching clips because I actually enjoyed watching the play a lot (not an english/theatre student). Am I the only one who thinks it's really funny and very quotable?
Beckett is always quotable. From this play: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." From Waiting for Godot: "People are bloody ignorant apes." And my favorite, from The Unnameable: "I can't go on, I'll go on."
My god it must stink in all that grey. Comedy of the dreary end. Thank you for downloading. A mesmerising play performed by extraordinarily good players.
As entertaining as absurdist drama is, I'm not sure they called it correctly. From the ominous events unfolding since 2020, it's looking much more painful and sinister--not just repetitive and dull. Being decimated by design is much worse than flickering off into oblivion. Who would've thunk it? 😉
I'm not an expert on this but I have developed an interpretation of it. The point is, I believe, that we try to enjoy whatever little pleasures we can find in this life of suffering. However, there is nothing more to life than these little pleasures. No ultimate pleasure/meaning to aim at. And this is the main point of the play: these little pleasures are not enough to warrant the existence of life. They cannot compensate for the suffering in life and so life is inherently absurd, pointless. The actions that the characters aim at appear to bring some level of pleasure to the characters. However, it can be seen that ultimately their plight remains unchanged. These little pleasures are nothing but painkillers in the midst of their inevitable suffering and extinction.
All concepts of conscience and morality are merely meaningless inventions that do nothing but anchor us to an empty belief that we will be rewarded for it in the long run
@@SamuelBlack84 Yes I'd agree that the notion of a tyrant god judging us is absurd and partly created by a need of some to control others for their own ends. Although I am quite open to the idea of an afterlife. An openness based on reason and experience rather than tradition or "blind faith". The research into NDEs over the last 50 years is one of the reasons I lean more toward the existence of some kind of continued conscious existence. The work of Dr Bruce Greyson is a good place to start. Also I think living wisely does lead to a happier life than living foolishly. But a preoccupation with trying to be righteous won't work either. But I could be wrong and I don't care. Nothing I can do about it. It's a mystery to me.
Robert Shaw, the symphony conductor, choral director for, and protege of Toscanini, succumbed during a performance of this, put on by his son. His son was pissed off, because he thought his father was sleeping.
I want to see a version where Walter White and Jesse Pinkman stand in for Hamm and Clov, with Skinny Pete and Badger stuffed in the trashcans/chemical barrels. Saul would replace the stuffed dog, obviously.
"3 months to make a pair of trousers and 6 days to make the world. Look at the trousers, then look at the world." Quite the eye opener.
God gives it a week and leaves the rest to us
What a slave driver
Nell seems to be the only sane character. She is the only one with a clear perception of the fact that happiness and purpose has evaporated from all their lives. She is the only one who retains a coherent memory of times past. She consequently is the only one who voluntarily lets go of life, realising that life has been lived and should now come to an end. She tries to share this with Nagg, but he is unable to grasp the significance of it. The other characters seem to oscillate between the realisation that everything is pointless and that death is appropriate, and in the next moment they distract themselves by meaningless conversation and games. In addition they are afflicted with amnesia and confusion about what has happened, and if life ever had any value. Absolutely brilliant play, one of my favourites.
Beckett meets Sartre
RIP Michael Gambon. A truly great actor, IMHO.
As i get older and the blind, headlong emotion of youth fades to be replaced by a kind of reflective contemplation, death loses it's sting and this piece speaks louder every time I watch it.
I've drowned in reflective contemplation since I was a child. Not everyone youth is joyous and adventurous
Knowledge breeds misery. That validates it.
@@KajiCarson Is that why the world revels in stupidity?
@@SamuelBlack84 There may be an instinctual truth to that. Knowledge shocks, which is probably why Nietzsche wrote that, "Truth must be approached stealthily." Dunno.
@@KajiCarson Life at its heart has no purpose or meaning and we're all just a bunch of upright monkeys wandering an ancient world and so we look desperately for any kind of distraction to avoid thinking too much
It really hits different when you're affected by mental illness. I read this for theater class and I was struck by how I could find myself in the madness. Now I know it's the whole of humanity instead of just insanity.
Not to discredit the other two, but Nagg and Nell's actors just add more tenderness and vulnerability to the characters.
Clov's sad expression at the end really adds to it. He's free but he's seeing the only person in his life withering away.
Almost a parallel to Stockholm syndrome
"Use your head, can't you, use your head. You're on earth, there's no cure for that!"
We couldn't had lived without, Beckett. He is the only light in a world dark as a pit.
On the contrary, some people might refer to Beckett as the metaphorical “dark pit” in a world of potential “light” as well. 🧐
@@Lobsterboy300 then they miss the point. He was the only one, or at least the most skilled, to be bold enough to shine a light into the void, stare it in the face, and find humor in the human condition.
@@Chieftainteroix I'd argue that this is a much worse reading of Beckett... but each to their own.
It's not the worst to have thought, but I could've done without it@@Lobsterboy300
This work in particular illustrates why the world isn't worth living in when you remove an objective center of the universe. It's empty. Explaining the darkness doesn't mean you've illuminated it.
Dumbledore and Remus Lupin have really been through some shit.
I'd say "please read another book" but here we are.
@@danieltuomey4859 Thank you for your wisdom oh learned and cultured person!
@@voightkampffchamp wisdom is a scam and culture is a bourgeois pimple. thanks.
@@danieltuomey4859 I'd say "go fuck yourself you full-of-shit idiot" but here we are
i laughed out loud while reading this, and cried while watching it. only beckett.
53:20 until he stops talking is simply phenomenal
God I just love David Thewlis.
Many years on and all I can do is echo the sentiment. He is brilliant beyond words in this.
Great acting right there. Especially the actor who played Nagg absolutely killed it
This is a must for someone just learning the English language.
I love how there is the future Lupin and Dumbledore in this movie
Well spotted
"I'm back again with the insecticide!"
"Let him have it!"
I love the tiny moments when they appear to work together.
some lines in beckett feel like an absolute gut punch, e.g 1:09:00 "you know what it is? i was never there". also in waiting for godot when pozzo first reveals he is blind
Stunning. I've seen this play three times and this makes me feel like I understand what they are saying for the first time.
Try reading Hans Anderson : The
Emperor's New Clothes . ?
He explains it SO much better..!
tfw you're watching Endgame in 2020 for zoom university during quarantine
Sadly. I’m only a minute in and ready to close the video😪
A stunning production. More relevant today than in was in the post war world. We are witnesses to the graying, the corpsing, and the impossible heap making of our pandemic world.
@@nicholasfici805 Is it any different to life in general? Meandering about aimlessly from one petty chore after another while this static, pointless life flows over us like an endlessly flowing river that goes nowhere and we, the little stones lying on the bottom have no reason to exist at all
It's funny
And the possibility of nature within grief ..a given perhaps. .possibly if grief excists
*DON'T STAY THERE, YOU'll GIVE ME THE SHIVERS*
7u7
Beckett, always guiding us through the mud.
Guiding us with the empty lure of Godot
Thank you so much for posting this. Cannot imagine what Channel 4 (or the BBC, for that matter) would do to this now once it had been through their DEI sausage machine.
It's significant how Clove gets more and more dressed as the day goes on, he starts in a pair of pajamas and a dressing gown, then when he next appears he's wearing a pair of pajamas and cardegan, by the time he's looking at the window at 28:00 he's put on trousers with suspenders
Clove? Old Spice?
And, ultimately, he realises he has absolutely nowhere to go
One day you'll say to yourself: 'I'm tired I'll sit down' and you go and sit down. Then you say: 'I'm hungry I get up and get something to eat'.......but you won't get up, and you won't get anything to eat.
WHO ELSE IS WATCHING THIS FOR HOMEWORK IN LOCKDOWN
I'm watching it because I love it🙂I wish I had been taught Beckett in school
For sorry I'm watching the last few minutes of it for the exam too 😪
Watched it before lockdown
me
@@SamuelBlack84 i know right! Samuel Beckett is just such a genius in his plays. I feel like I have to stop every two seconds just to admire the brilliance of it
Michael gambon is beyond brilliant
OMG, they are so good actors, it`s not easy to play Beckett...
It is if you grew up in Liverpool.
@@Johnconno ah yes Liverpool still exist...
@@Johnconno w-what is the meaning of the rose?
@@Johnconno Another absurdist conundrum? They never f*cking end don;t they...........?
Thewlis as Jonny in Mike Leigh's Naked is a performance not.to.be missed
This is the most disturbing play, but strangely compelling.
Now my family has a running joke:
"How are your stumps?"
"Never mind about me stumps!"
"Is it not time for my painkiller?"
Ha! "Running joke!" Not much running going on with stumps, now is there? 😊
Though I read it first, watching it is so much better cause now you don't have to deal with hundreds of PAUSES
The pauses are crucial,
@@joehiggs100 in some cases I very much agree but others it doesn't really do anything, not for the symbolism or the point of the story
@@joehiggs100 Can you elaborate?
@@MrRezillo Although Hamm and Clov are arguing with each other throughout the entire play, I think the real antagonist is silence. The world outside comprises a leaden sea, grey sky, and sand. There are no other people. Therefore, if they were to stop talking to each other they would find themselves drowning in silence. That the pattern of their dialogue is so desultory, the way they quit one subject abruptly and jump to another that seems totally unrelated to the last, is to me evidence that they are afraid of the silence. In other words, it better to argue than to sit there with your own thoughts. Thus I see the pauses as those moments where death pokes its head in, reminding Hamm and Clov that emptiness is all around them, and will be there to engulf them the moment they get tired of talking or decide to part ways.
edit: grammar
@@jameslatin2939 Thanks a very astute analysis. I wonder why Beckett, via his characters feared silence so much? I've done a fair amount of meditation and am of the opinion that silence is not a bad thing to be feared. Quite the contrary, actually. Anyway, Clov does leave in the end. What do you make of his seeing a "small boy" out the window? He mentions it an an off-hand matter, not: "Look, there's another human being!" but "there's a robin flying by."
Apparently Beckett had some "issues", as a shrink would put it, with his parents, viz Nell and Nagg. Anyway, this play has always fascinated me. I did see it live once.
In addition to David Thewlis as Clov and Michael Gambon as Hamm, Nell is played by the Scottish actress Jean Anderson who died at the age of 93 just a year after starring in this role.
Nagg is played by Charles Simon who was also in his nineties when he appeared in this and also died aged 93.
I think you got Thewlis' and Gambon's roles mixed up.
@@tuanjim799 You're correct. Well spotted. Thanks. I've edited it.
Anyone else watching this for an assignment?
Clay Caldwell VCE Theatre Studies FTW!
University of Wyoming, here.
+Clay Caldwell u guys watch some chill shit
+Clay Caldwell JCCC script analysis class.
+Clay Caldwell me saudi university , i have exam about this play :"(
I love how gleeful Clov is about operating that alarm clock
This hits different during a global pandemic
The lockown was a busmans holiday to me
Still the greatest and most beautiful study of the human condition ever written.
Did you actually read that comment before typing it ??
Unbelievable !
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
LOL, got that from IMDb?
Wrong. They're all Clov.
@@GoogleAccount-md1gd Even Nell?
difficult to watch depression personified on the edge of madness .oh yesterday !
36:50 "your dogs are here" about one dog. i dont know why i find this so funny. also "here's your gaff, stick it up"
Clov is the other dog
Egger's "The Lighthouse", got me here.
Similarly existential and nihilist themes?
Have to watch this for a class and I'm actually enjoying it!
Drama class
So yer bloody should!
1:15:32
"I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit."
"It’s easy going. When I fall I’ll weep for happiness."
The fear of eternal loneliness. The clock ticking the time in which we once again leave the earth as the way we came, alone.
these comments are deeper than the play itself
We're born kicking and screaming into an existence that is pointless, miserable and unfulfilling until the day comes when we fade out of existence kicking and screaming. We fear living, but terrified of losing it
@@SamuelBlack84 do you ever get invited to any parties?
@@davidsheriff9274 You have to know people for that and I have no relationship of any kind with anyone
@@SamuelBlack84 I was making a joke about the fact that your outlook on life is so bleak. Why do you think you have no friends? What is so scary to you about getting close with other people?
Samuel Beckett was a great genius and he had a lot to say about the human condition, but he leaves out joy, love, fun and human connection, don't you deserve to experience those things too?
Check out a Van Morrison song called"The meaning of loneliness". It's pretty good at describing what you, I and so many people in the world feel.
Beckett's funniest play perfectly performed. Clov forgets the ladder three times because Peter denied Christ three times. Then Clov remembers the ladder (the cross) only when he doesn't need it. Thanks for posting this work of art.
Never made the connection - that's quite the imagery
what does ladder means here
Nothing. It's got nothing to do with Jesus.
@@oli0808 every piece of art in the west since Clovis kneeled has to do with Jesus
Clov peeked out the window and saw two bums standing on an empty road next to a tree.
Waiting for goddo
It is strange to see what can be beautiful in a time like this... Such small moments, but---moments despite.
I love David Thewlis! He was amazing in “Fargo” - The TV Series - I think it was the 3rd season…just INCREDIBLE..thanks for uploading this
That was an absolute brilliant adaptation. Honestly, When I read the play it came very close to this in my mind's eye. Powerful, profound, moving and sad.
"Endgame" was a really impressive yet well thought-out play, Samuel Beckett sure did really well on the plays that he had created in my opinion 😏😉👍
Have to admit...i watch this at least once every two weeks ...keep coming back ,Best version I've seen anyway 😁👏
Same
I use it to fall asleep (along «A Piece of Monologue», «Rough for Theatre II», «Waiting for Godot» and other Beckett plays). The words and paces becomes soothing rythms. They’re well written and played 👌🏼
This one has a bit too much shouting to be pleasant in that way, though.
@@OnkelPeters Happy Days is a good one to fall asleep to.
Same... 'the rat got away' becomes more meaningful every time i watch it
I get a great deal of comfort from this.
I don't know what that says about me, but I'm not mad about it.
Me too
It hints at the idea that life is nothing more than a bunch of flawed nobodies trapped together struggling to find meaning to nothingness
It gives me comfort as well because of my mental health. It's madness being humanized in a dark comedic and philosophical fashion.
Thank you so much for uploading this. ❤
What's he doing?
He's crying.
Then he's living.
I'm not going to pretend I understand it but I love it
I don't think there really is anything to understand in this. It is just so bleak, sour and pointless tirade of humanity. Utter pointlessness of human existence.
@@vksasdgaming9472 more or less
so this is how they defeated thanos
Why is thanos mentioned in every fucking comment section of every video? Are all you idiots obsessed with the fictional prick? It seriously bores the shit out of me
@@SamuelBlack84 Okay, I won't mention "thanos." Mum's the word! First I'd heard the term, but then I don't read Marvel comics or watch the inflated blockbusters.
🤣
RIP MICHAEL GAMBON ❤️
This is the conversation I would assume that Lucky and his master would have had in Waiting for Godot
I attempted to ask Samuel Beckett about that and I found out something disturbing-- he's in the graveyard with the tombstone blues. Who knows?
same lmfao
The absurdity is well presented through the acting of the actors.
1:01:30 "what month are we" is slightly terrifying. also it seems to confuse clov
Another day in hell in Samuel Beckett land
But remember what Bon Scott said, "Hell ain't such a bad place to be". Ooops, sorry, the late Bon Scott was talking about his relationship to a certain woman from what I can tell from those pesky AC/DC lyrics. I'm in hell and it's not too bad here and I made it myself, though I did have some help from life itself. Peace.
@@laeticiastudenthalbedel4949 Good luck with that, literally.. contrary to what many folks assert, there's a huge amount of humour in much of the maestro's works, old musical hall gags.
... that hell is way less hellish than the wear-yr-Dog-Muzzle-Slave! Global Prison 2020/21 vintage...
Fresh hell daily.
But there it is, either you love or you don’t.
extremely serious and grave subject, the question of all life maybe, and somehow presented in a humorous way that is enjoyable for more than just the subject.
Steptoe and Son. Without the laughs.
Daunted by the thought of reading the text of this play (for my MA) I wanted to watch it first. And it is not easy to find these days. No-one is selling the DVD. Even the Uni library resources failed to come up with a copy. Bless you, TH-camr, for hosting this version. I had expected to find the play a painful post-modernist expression of pretentiousness only fit for intellectuals. Either this is a really good interpretation (I found it strangely compelling) or I have gone native....
I can relate! Though, it is genuinely a good performance. I would love to own a copy of this work, but for now having it publicly available is the best i could hope for
Doing this for my year 9 drama class
I'm watching this teahtre play for pleasure jajaja. I love the theatre of Beckett
*hahaha
It’s called the Theatre of the Absurd
@@faith_alone *Jajaja
What is the point of words after this? Exactly as I dared picture it in my head. Astonishing.
1:11:50 "In between, however, in the midst of the tumult, we see the glances of two lovers meet longingly: yet why so secretly, fearfully, and stealthily?" World as will and idea
I LOVE IT!
It is the insanity that breathes wildly in my mind!
The words spoken are the echoes of farce I laugh at whilst not a sound is heard!
.
I've never laughed harder!
This is spectacular!
God I love this text..
Godot, I love it, too!
I hesitate to end! Powerful!
Existential dilemma like Sartre's "No Exit".
Frightening....
haunting.....
.....engaging.....
beckett found it hilarious that the world took his absurd plays so seriously.....
i dont know man there are alot of connection and it is complex. best thing is to read it instead of watching the play.
Please provide some sources for this view. I've read all of his writings and never got that perspective.
Like a true absurdist I recognize that there's no true meaning to them & they're meant to be silly films, yet I search for a deeper message anyway
@@cykasoviet831 we all do, ... 'to be i ebb, and the wolf flows on....' ....god help us.
Inside the skull collective unconsciousness speaks to consciousness it’s the chatter we can’t stop inside our head sometimes goes hundred miles per hour driving us crazy.
The past is in the trash we are unable to leave it completely so we can live in the present the two windows are the eyes one see the water the other the earth. Fire the third force is purposely missing.
Inside of everyone skull is hell
It is a terrifying inside of a human mind as it aproveches death.
It is missing because is being extinguished slowly as death approaches. Silence when we are born silence when we die alone.
There's no more toilet paper! You'll never get anymore toilet paper!
Still topical!
@@joehiggs100 still topical
A masterpiece, and an absolutely stunning performance.
100%
Pop is what british people used to call a fizzy or sweet drink. is the man in the bin shouting "pop" in an irish accent?
No. He is shouting 'pap' an old word for baby-food@@rlawrence9838
@@rlawrence9838no, he’s shouting for “pap” which is a kind of mush. It also makes one think of “pappy” or, father, which is one of the central themes.
@@bobobahia Oh ok, thanks, I never got an answer to that one...I suppose "pop" meaning fizzy drinks is a bit poste-childhood-of-Samuel-Beckett.
2024 and I'm still just unironically watching this
thank you, love this : 'Death is outside!'.
A little on the nose in April of 2020 while we all hide inside from the death that roams about on the land.
wear a mask and wash your nose if there is a little bit on it....
Anyone else here after Michael Gambon passed away? :(
I am amazed that Beckett didn't kill himself at a young age. Such dark. So darkness.
why does he hysterically laugh so much?
Wonderful! The best interpretation of Beckett you'll ever see! Please watch it and tell me what you think.
+Mike Ballard It kicks ass, is what i think.
Simply stunning. This is everything.
What the fuck
I agree, a superb TV cinematic version of a stage production. Many people find Samuel Beckett's works depressing. Amongst the deep dark bits there's some brilliant wit and humour, in this I think he's taking the piss out of himself at times. I'd only read this script, didn't see it when it was broadcast.
@@joehiggs100 MOLLOY was a howl. My wife kept asking me why I was laughing out loud.
I'm watching clips because I actually enjoyed watching the play a lot (not an english/theatre student). Am I the only one who thinks it's really funny and very quotable?
Most of Beckett's works are amazing and quotable. Recommend your next watch be 'Waiting for Godot'.
Beckett is always quotable. From this play: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." From Waiting for Godot: "People are bloody ignorant apes." And my favorite, from The Unnameable: "I can't go on, I'll go on."
My god it must stink in all that grey. Comedy of the dreary end. Thank you for downloading. A mesmerising play performed by extraordinarily good players.
I do intend to watch this play. I hope it's awsome.
Love watching movies though
A man should know when to leave a party.
Dustbin Old Man is the pervert who dies next to Marlow (Gambon) in The Singing Detective
The Avengers never appeared, the special effects were mediocre, and the plot was hard to follow. 1/4 star.
Lol wrong movie
lol
If only I had appeared a bit late that night.
After watching this, I wish I had never been born
This movie would have destroyed me during quarantine
Who’s watching Endgame in 2021 for online class?
As entertaining as absurdist drama is, I'm not sure they called it correctly. From the ominous events unfolding since 2020, it's looking much more painful and sinister--not just repetitive and dull. Being decimated by design is much worse than flickering off into oblivion. Who would've thunk it? 😉
I'm not an expert on this but I have developed an interpretation of it. The point is, I believe, that we try to enjoy whatever little pleasures we can find in this life of suffering. However, there is nothing more to life than these little pleasures. No ultimate pleasure/meaning to aim at. And this is the main point of the play: these little pleasures are not enough to warrant the existence of life. They cannot compensate for the suffering in life and so life is inherently absurd, pointless.
The actions that the characters aim at appear to bring some level of pleasure to the characters. However, it can be seen that ultimately their plight remains unchanged. These little pleasures are nothing but painkillers in the midst of their inevitable suffering and extinction.
Ogma - Sounds great!
Thanks Julie :)
Well put, thanks Tez.
All concepts of conscience and morality are merely meaningless inventions that do nothing but anchor us to an empty belief that we will be rewarded for it in the long run
@@SamuelBlack84 Yes I'd agree that the notion of a tyrant god judging us is absurd and partly created by a need of some to control others for their own ends.
Although I am quite open to the idea of an afterlife. An openness based on reason and experience rather than tradition or "blind faith". The research into NDEs over the last 50 years is one of the reasons I lean more toward the existence of some kind of continued conscious existence. The work of Dr Bruce Greyson is a good place to start.
Also I think living wisely does lead to a happier life than living foolishly. But a preoccupation with trying to be righteous won't work either.
But I could be wrong and I don't care. Nothing I can do about it. It's a mystery to me.
there is nothing better to relate to this play by doing your neural-network image annotation at the same time
i am watching it because i want to
Brilliant, and beautifully bleak.
Very funny as well though.
Robert Shaw, the symphony conductor, choral director for, and protege of Toscanini, succumbed during a performance of this, put on by his son. His son was pissed off, because he thought his father was sleeping.
I’m watching now - January 2022
thats motherfucking insane
Shoutout to Dr Begley at BGU. You da real MVP.
I want to see a version where Walter White and Jesse Pinkman stand in for Hamm and Clov, with Skinny Pete and Badger stuffed in the trashcans/chemical barrels. Saul would replace the stuffed dog, obviously.
We did this down in Cornwall for imago theatres