Sunday, 2 October 2016

Views on movie screening - Waiting for Godot









Respected Sir,

Here are my views while watching movie “Waiting for Godot”.

·         The connection between the play and paintings is that, the play and paintings are connected with each other. Because paintings’ name ‘Longing’ is connected with our desire and in the play- Vladimir and Estragon’s desire are also waiting for Godot. It means bucket uses the paintings as play’s setting.

·         The tree is only important- ‘thing’ in both the acts. In first act – the tree was barren and in the second act – we will see few leaves. So, in first act we could not find leaves and in the second act we can see four-five leaves, it means at some point the tree represents the symbol of ‘death’ and also ‘Hope for Godot’.

·         In both acts, evening falls into night and moon rises, it means that there is progress of evening into night and moon rises. It symbolizes “Hope” and “Desire” for Vladimir and Estragon that Mr. Godot will come next day.

·         Debris means, waste, wreckage of rubbish or garbage. So in the movie, we can see that idea of Debris is represented waste or garbage of our life, it is like nothingness in life as we can see in the play that the main theme is ‘Nothingness’.

·         In the play the first line is “Nothing to be done” – so, it’s clear that the main point is nothingness. In the play, we know that Vladimir and Estragon are doing nothing same as we (people) are also doing same thing. We are doing or achieve many things but at last it will come out as nothing.

·         Yes, I am agree that “Waiting for Godot” is positive play, because in the play Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for something with some hopes and desires that someone will come and solve their problems. So, in the play- nothingness is something that it is positive thoughts effects.

·         Hat and Boot – represented the thinking process of Vladimir and Estragon. Hat represented – higher thinking and intellect as Vladimir a thinker and play with the hat. And Boot is represented level of lower thinking which is shown material life as Estragon plays with his Boot.

·         Yes, it is too much irritating that Lucky is obedience of his master Pozzo and in second act – Pozzo is blind and if Lucky wished, he escaped from slavery but he likes to be slave and it is unbelievable.

·         According to me, Godot is god and all are waiting for him because all human being believe that God will come and solved their trouble. As we see in the play that Vladimir and Estragon are also waiting for someone who solved their problems. So, here we can also say that Godot is an object of desire.

·           The subject of the play is waiting, not Godot, and I agree with this point because we see throughout the movie that Vladimir and Estragon are constantly waiting even without knowing that who is Godot, how he looks and even they don’t know the place they are waiting is right or not.

·         When we watched movie first time, we cannot understand because we cannot get clear dialogues in proper way. So, “Waiting for Godot” is better understood by reading not by watching.

·         I liked two sequence: 1) Pozzo-Lucky episode in both acts
                                                2) Conversation of Vladimir with the boy
·         Yes, there is existential crisis or meaninglessness of human existence. Because in the movie, we can see that they both are waiting for Godot, who never comes. They are doing meaningless actions to pass their times.


·         After too much Waiting for Godot and when Godot didn’t come, Vladimir and Estragon end their useless and meaninglessness of life but they could not do suicide. Here, we can see the effect of existentialism because existentialism represents the empty human condition.

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