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The lighthouse, Great claustrophobic horror/psychological thriller!
The lighthouse (2019) By Robert Eggers
Plot Summary: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Rating:R (Nudity, Disturbing Images, Sexual Content, Some Language, Violence.)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language:English
Wow, what a masterpiece! Starting with the visuals, The Lighthouse is absolutely gorgeous to look at. The imagery feels instantly iconic, and the almost-square aspect ratio helps set the time period as well as add claustrophobia to the mix.
Dafoe and Pattinson are riveting in their roles, giving career-best performances. There is an interesting ebb and flow to their relationship in the movie as if discussing, can men or at least heterosexual men truly be intimate with each other? As the men become more intimate during their time cloistered on this island, they push each other away, perhaps by sheer masculinity, only to revisit a need for human connection yet again.
There are also themes of power and the desire for it, or at least to be respected as an equal. And as one might expect in a film about spending weeks on an island, sanity also comes into question.
The few occasions during the moving in which my immersion broke were only because I found myself considering what must have been a truly brutal and demanding filming process.
The Lighthouse leaves you dazed, terrified and elated, and it signals Eggers as one of the most exciting directors working today. An expertly rendered gothic slow burn that brings with it an atmosphere of dread which shrouds the film like fog rolling onto shore.
A disturbing study of traditional masculinity, a descent to madness and confusion, from the perspective of a character who can't always be trusted.
Filmmaking: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Story: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Direction: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Writing: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Acting : 100%🌟 (Pure)
Must Watch: 👍
Important : 100% 🌟 (Very)
© Lousystone
Plot Summary: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Rating:R (Nudity, Disturbing Images, Sexual Content, Some Language, Violence.)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language:English
Wow, what a masterpiece! Starting with the visuals, The Lighthouse is absolutely gorgeous to look at. The imagery feels instantly iconic, and the almost-square aspect ratio helps set the time period as well as add claustrophobia to the mix.
Dafoe and Pattinson are riveting in their roles, giving career-best performances. There is an interesting ebb and flow to their relationship in the movie as if discussing, can men or at least heterosexual men truly be intimate with each other? As the men become more intimate during their time cloistered on this island, they push each other away, perhaps by sheer masculinity, only to revisit a need for human connection yet again.
There are also themes of power and the desire for it, or at least to be respected as an equal. And as one might expect in a film about spending weeks on an island, sanity also comes into question.
The few occasions during the moving in which my immersion broke were only because I found myself considering what must have been a truly brutal and demanding filming process.
The Lighthouse leaves you dazed, terrified and elated, and it signals Eggers as one of the most exciting directors working today. An expertly rendered gothic slow burn that brings with it an atmosphere of dread which shrouds the film like fog rolling onto shore.
A disturbing study of traditional masculinity, a descent to madness and confusion, from the perspective of a character who can't always be trusted.
Filmmaking: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Story: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Direction: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Writing: 100%🌟 (Pure)
Acting : 100%🌟 (Pure)
Must Watch: 👍
Important : 100% 🌟 (Very)
© Lousystone
