“Waiting for Godot” is Tedious yet mesmerising and frustrating yet intriguing. Vladimir and Estragon wait for someone or something named “Godot” to arrive, but Godot never does.  Many people interpret “Waiting for Godot” as an allegory for waiting for God and how God eludes humanity. But Beckett himself has said, “if I wanted to say God, I would have said God and not Godot”. A more fitting interpretation most agree on is the portrayal of human need to find meaning through doing — something. Estragon says something along the lines of, “ we always find something eh, to give us the impression we exist”.  Nothing subtextual, on the nose and straight to the point. It’s clear the play/film is addressing existential dread. The human condition to find and impose meaning is exhausting and quite futile. Vladimir and Estragon wait, and they keep waiting, and they do decide to leave, only to come back again, because waiting gives them purpose. Its much more haunting to think about our existence when we come to the realisation that everything we have done so far is because we had nothing to do and we needed something to do, otherwise we’d have nothing left to do but maybe hang ourselves.

“Waiting for Godot” is Tedious yet mesmerising and frustrating yet intriguing. Vladimir and Estragon wait for someone or something named “Godot” to arrive, but Godot never does.  Many people interpret “Waiting for Godot” as an allegory for waiting for God and how God eludes humanity. But Beckett himself has said, “if I wanted to say God, I would have said God and not Godot”. A more fitting interpretation most agree on is the portrayal of human need to find meaning through doing — something. Estragon says something along the lines of, “ we always find something eh, to give us the impression we exist”.  Nothing subtextual, on the nose and straight to the point. It’s clear the play/film is addressing existential dread. The human condition to find and impose meaning is exhausting and quite futile. Vladimir and Estragon wait, and they keep waiting, and they do decide to leave, only to come back again, because waiting gives them purpose. Its much more haunting to think about our existence when we come to the realisation that everything we have done so far is because we had nothing to do and we needed something to do, otherwise we’d have nothing left to do but maybe hang ourselves.

Gonna be hittin "the net" at da club

Gonna be hittin "the net" at da club

who even is godot

who even is godot

Watched a Pakistani interpretation of this at the theatre today but that's not on letterboxd so using this as a placeholder. Pakistani people have a problem of showing too much information in their expressions which is wildly popular in their dramas but takes away from the beauty of silences. One of the actors named Qasim was good though

Watched a Pakistani interpretation of this at the theatre today but that's not on letterboxd so using this as a placeholder. Pakistani people have a problem of showing too much information in their expressions which is wildly popular in their dramas but takes away from the beauty of silences. One of the actors named Qasim was good though