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Chris Lambert
Chris Lambert is the co-founder and lead writer of Film Colossus. He specializes in film interpretation, narrative structure, and explaining how movies use story, imagery, and technique to create meaning. His work on Film Colossus has reached millions of readers, with more than 500 articles covering films ranging from Fight Club and Black Swan to Perfect Blue and The Odyssey.
Explaining the end of The Shape of Water
When The Shape of Water ended, I was excited for a few reasons. First, I’m a sap and the happy ending made me happy. Second, the ending was mysterious enough that I knew I’d be writing about it. Third, I recognized that…
The Best Explanation of The Lobster’s ending
I think one of the reasons the ending of The Lobster leaves people so bemused and unsure is because it’s a philosophical ending rather than a resolution. Movies and books have trained us to expect resolution. Ask anyone what the parts of a…
Blow-Up explained
Blow-Up deals with the themes of transience and elusiveness. How do you develop such a theme in a movie? Well. You make a lot of things transient and elusive. I recently wrote about The Lobster and how it’s a conclusion based on philosophy rather…
Explaining the end of The Fountain
The Fountain makes things difficult by being three separate stories. And the lines are blurred between what is real and what isn’t real. To that end, there’s arguments to be made for a very fantastical reading of the film and then…
Explaining the end of No Country for Old Men
Most of us have heard about the writing rule of “show, don’t tell.” Usually this is about how someone writes an individual moment or scene. Telling would be, “Bobby came home angry, ignored his mother, and went right to his room.” Showing would be,…
The Glena Avila Documentary
Look, I love the movie Warrior. I throw it on all the time and have it playing in the background while doing other things. It’s the last hour that gets me. The fights. I mean, I’m not even that huge…
Sex Ed versus Boyhood and the depth of one over the other
Sex Ed is self-reflective, which I think is a wonderful thing. Let me take a second a put this into perspective. Last week, I was a guest on a podcast called The Fifth Opinion and we discussed Boyhood. The main complaint by the…
A Deep Explanation of Donnie Darko
I don’t think it will surprise anyone when I say that Donnie Darko is a weird movie. The theatrical version can leave a viewer in complete and absolute befuddlement. Richard Kelly’s Director’s Cut wants to take it easy on the audience so…
Explaining the end of Manchester by the Sea
The ending of Manchester by the Sea has a bit more depth than what it might seem. In the simplest terms, by film’s end, Lee has had a minor breakthrough with his grief and guilt. That’s it. This isn’t some Inception-like mystery where…
Explaining the opening scene of Nocturnal Animals and how to find meaning in movies
The opening scene of Nocturnal Animals caught me by surprise. It’s a puzzling way to start a film because there’s no context. We don’t know anything about the world. And by the time the movie ends, this first scene is a mysterious…
The Best Explanation of Nocturnal Animals | Themes, Ending, Meaning
In the end, Nocturnal Animals barely feels like a film made by a human being. You could just dub it a “stylish exercise” and call it a day. But I just can’t shake the fact that Ford somehow wants it to be…
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