I don't think that is right.
When the tide slows down it don't make the moon to slow down too, it just make the moon to accelerate slower because the the tide will be more directly under the moon. So this can not be the reason.
My theory is that because the water is more directly under the moon it makes the gravity pull on the moon to be bigger, and this cause the moon to fall a bit closer to the earth, but after that the moon will get a stable orbit and be on the same hight all the time.
And because the earth now rotates at the same rate that the moon orbits around it, the moon will also be over the same spot on the earth at all time.
Uhm...
This scene is a fail, thats not how the eye work.
For the first your consentrating of the light is to small, it should be so big that the light is showed backward inside the eye, not consentrated into one point.
For the second the light don't pass directly in to the brain, it hits special cells inside your eye that makes the light change to electricity that is sent to your brain and makes pictures.