Endgame (Beckett)

"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.

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.

"Use your head, can't you, use your head. You're on earth, there's no cure for that!"

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.

RIP Michael Gambon. A truly great actor, IMHO.

Dumbledore and Remus Lupin have really been through some shit.

tfw you're watching Endgame in 2020 for zoom university during quarantine

I love how there is the future Lupin and Dumbledore in this movie

God I just love David Thewlis.

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.

53:20 until he stops talking is simply phenomenal

We couldn't had lived without, Beckett. He is the only light in a world dark as a pit.

DON'T STAY THERE, YOU'll GIVE ME THE SHIVERS

OMG, they are so good actors, it`s not easy to play Beckett...

Great acting right there. Especially the actor who played Nagg absolutely killed it

This is a must for someone just learning the English language.

WHO ELSE IS WATCHING THIS FOR HOMEWORK IN LOCKDOWN

Though I read it first, watching it is so much better cause now you don't have to deal with hundreds of PAUSES

Still the greatest and most beautiful study of the human condition ever written.

This is the most disturbing play, but strangely compelling.