How did he get outside on the rocks
How did he get outside at the end?
shareI was wondering this as well. Why was he naked. Did the birds undress him. What was it that made him scream? We saw the door containing the light open by itself. What was real and what wasn’t, dreams, imagination, insanity? It was way too ambiguous for my liking. Maybe as someone put it, I need to stick with transformers 😂 .
The birds was picking him out in the guts.
shareDo seagulls really eat living
shareI watched the Jennifers Body dvd again the other day and it had a deer eating the inside of a guy in it.
shareI live by the sea, seagulls are vicious, they dive bomb tourists and steal food they are holding. And they tear crabs apart for the innards. If a human was laid there helpless, they’d be eaten.
shareIt's inconsequential to the plot. The purpose of the scene is more thematic.
Prometheus defied the gods in being a light-bringer, by giving fire to mankind. He was punished by Zeus in having his liver ripped out by birds, having it regenerate, only for the birds to return to rip it out again. This would repeat over and over again for all eternity.
The island and Sisyphean duties on it are obviously purgatory, an eternal place of torment, for having murdered his fellow logger before assuming his identity. But he does not learn from his behavior. He kills a gull, then murders his fellow lighthouse employee, and is punished for all eternity, having his beans spilled to be eaten by the gulls.
I'm not entirely sure yet how the roles of the psychosis, megalomania, mermaid motifs and other imagery are to fit. Probably something to do with the Lord of The Flies archetype, where desperate men slough off the airs of civilization and will resort to their baser natures, susceptible to meaner temptations like lust, murder, drunkenness, pleasure-seeking and fits of rage and lack of self-control. Insanity, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push. Bring a man to the edge of his comprehension and the end of his nerves, and watch him become an animal in both destruction and self-destruction. Much like Ahab's pursuit of the white whale culminating in his own doom.
The white light is an uncompromising truth, too rich for man to possess. For the men on the water, they know to steer away from it in order to live. For the keepers of the light, they bear the burden and the sacrifice of temptation and self-destruction into madness, wanting to possess it for themselves. But power corrupts and we should be careful about what we wish for.