The Lighthouse (2019)
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The Witch director's second movie
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'The Lighthouse' Film Review: Robert Pattinson Rocks With a Portrait of Madness - TheWrap
Before he has a chance to don Batman's cowl, Pattison teams with Willem Dafoe to rip into this black-and-white fever dream with demented glee
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The Lighthouse
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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This looks fucking wicked. The Witch is one of the best movies, never mind horror movies, of the last 10 years or so. Eggers came out of nowhere
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Now THIS looks interesting. Some of the shots in the trailer are a little too "artsy" for my tastes as inclusion in a horror movie, but I am definitely interested in this one.
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It definitely seemed more palatable than The Witch as a horror movie but beyond that it's considerably more bizarre, also incredibly good but a really bizarre movie. A lot of comedy involved and the sound design is almost a main character along with Dafoe and Pattinson. I drew a lot of similarities with Kubrick from it but it's still definitely it's own thing. I loved this and The Witch and my gf loved The Witch and basically hated this so I can't say that if you liked The Witch you'll like this but it's an amazing piece of cinema, absolutely beautiful and deliberate, you can tell the Eggers is in a tier with some amazing directors
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Saw it tonight and loved it. Definitely less plot driven than The Witch, which is sure to turn some people off. It's much more of a character study of a descent into madness. Absolutely incredible atmosphere. My girlfriend likened it to 2001 in that it seems to be more concerned with allegory and feel than it is about a coherent narrative. I love that stuff, she doesn't. It'll be divisive for sure. I agree that Eggers is top tier, but I get the sense that he could do himself a favour and be a little less accessible about his process. Kubric always felt like he had a clear and precise vision and that likely has to do with his process being so opaque; the films just stand on their own as a single entity. I've heard Eggers talking about revisiting his stories and sprinkling in Greek mythology after the fact. Ultimately it doesn't really make a difference to the film, but I kind of feel like I'd like to think these things were intrinsic to the telling of the story from the beginning.
Anyway, I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading/watching all the different interpretations that are sure to come from it
Anyway, I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading/watching all the different interpretations that are sure to come from it
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I noticed that too and want to watch again to see if it started changing after he started drinking again. As if his phoney persona was beginning to melt away. Pattinson seems too good to have it just be a fuck up. And if they didn't shoot the movie chronologically, it would make even more sense that it was a conscious decision