Okay - it's late, I'm tired, and my brain is working even less well than normal. I can't quite make a connection between the following things - not sure if there is one to be made.. Anyone see where I'm going with this? Not sure I do:

(1) Charlie's tattoo is "Living is easy with eyes closed" (a line from the Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields" - the next line is "misunderstanding all that you see," incidentally, and the song goes on about how "nothing is real").

(2) There's prominent eye imagery throughout Lost

(3) The movie Vanilla Sky (based on a book called "Open Your Eyes" - a repeated refrain in the movie) deals with Life Extension - one of the foci of the Hanso Foundation. http://www.thehansofoundation.org/

(4) There's some connection between Vanilla Sky and Strawberry Fields that I can't quite recall, but I remember both being discussed in connection with Lost on these boards, for some reason, in the past... (no, the connection I'm thinking about has nothing to do with vanilla and strawberry both being flavors, or anything like that....)

Can anyone help me run with this?

Can't help you a whole lot as I haven't seen the movie (yet). But I think what you've pointed out is very interesting... Maybe we don't spend enough time on here delving into WHY so many of the episodes start with a shot of someone's eye.

the vanilla sky connections are definitely starting to show. Love that movie.

Remember the last thing Tom Cruise says to Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky?

"I'll see you in another life." Ring any bells? And then the last (and first) shot of Vanilla Sky was an eye opening.

I think you might be on to something.

Remember the last thing Tom Cruise says to Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky?

"I'll see you in another life." Ring any bells? And then the last (and first) shot of Vanilla Sky was an eye opening.

I think you might be on to something.


Yeah and the end of that line is "...when we are both cats."

:)

Maybe I'm going out on a limb here but the shots of eyes and such could simply just be a point that we have eyes, we see, and yet we fail to see so much. For example, Stanley Kubrick's movie "Eyes Wide Shut" is titled because in the beginning we see Nicole Kidman undressing and then "Eyes Wide Shut" is put on the screen, I think it is clear that we are looking at a beautiful woman undressing and only seeing that, instead of seeing a bigger picture. We tend to focus on certain things but don't look around it. Another reason is that our eyes are wide shut to the world. There are so many secrets, conspiracies, secret societies, secret corporations, etc. that run our world and yet we have little or no knowledge about them.

This Dharma Institution cannot be a widely known corporation, for one because I'm sure at least Locke or someone else would of heard about it. Also, I don't think what they are doing would be ethical and therefore no known institution would allow to fund it (that's probably why it is privately funded). Anyway, I think maybe the eye could simply mean that we are seeing things from this persons perspective and then failing to see the bigger picture of what is going on as well. At least that is one way you could interpret it, I think.

I was told that Dominic Monahgan's tattoo was really his, not something for the show. Same with other folks tattoos. Is this true or not? If he had the tattoo before Lost, then maybe they figured out a way to tie it into the storyline?

I was told that Dominic Monahgan's tattoo was really his, not something for the show. Same with other folks tattoos. Is this true or not? If he had the tattoo before Lost, then maybe they figured out a way to tie it into the storyline?

I have a friend who is a big Dom fan and I asked her a long time ago and she told me that it is, in fact, his tattoo. He's, apparently, a huge Beatles fan.