The Lighthouse Comments

  • Alden 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    The overall atmosphere is very similar to The Witch, but the film's narrative pales in comparison. When I watched it, I was eager to understand the background of the director, and to know what he was trying to metaphorize. Finally, I found a little answer through "Northern Man" - contacting "The Witch", the director's mythological metaphors, religious legends, and various ancient Literary poems are understood, but unlike "The Witch", which gradually leads to a clear Satan folklore through a...

  • Austin 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    call me by your name Shutter Island...

  • Edna 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    An extremely exciting and confusing viewing experience. Eggers almost completely took time and space to transform a place where the sea and land are intertwined and chaotic, into the world stage of the primitive people, and the body is the only protagonist on this stage. A montage of horrific imagery of sexuality, violence, law, and gods, accompanied by haunting ambient sounds, keeps the master-slave game between Dafoe and Pattinson captivatingly suspenseful toward total destruction;...

  • Sigrid 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    Amazing texture, photography lighting and ratio, it really blurs the sense of age, and some people will believe that it is a film from decades ago. The witch seems to be just the director's test of the water, and this film is where he really shows his strength. The same as the previous work, animal metaphors and character conflicts have advanced the plot like fear devours the soul. The exterior vistas are like foggy landscapes, while the interior scenes, the large monologues and emotional...

  • Jordi 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    I feel relieved when I see my friends who went with me also fell asleep = = 1...

  • Elfrieda 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    The old man's mind control technique (PUA) was invincible until it finally overturned in front of the mentally...

  • Keith 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    Video, performance, lines, every aspect is outstanding. The two actors are also in great...

  • Alysha 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    #4th IFFAM# Cannes Biweekly → Macau "House of Flying Daggers" unit. Uh, after reading it, I felt that it was the right choice if I didn’t go to Cannes to queue for three hours and still can’t get in; and the benefit of watching in Macau is that there are Chinese characters—the Chinese characters are too important, and all kinds of quarrels and swear words can’t be read with English subtitles Must keep up. Black and white 1.19:1 format, very dramatic power-control drama, which is to show off...

  • Lacey 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    Not quite as expected, but unexpectedly got a near-spiritual experience. Different from the restrained and restrained temperament of "The Witch", the second half is a violent impact on the mind like a storm hits the shore; but in some aspects, it is a continuation of "The Witch" or even further, and is still good at learning from the natural environment. Distill a terrifying audio-visual atmosphere and gradually push the characters to destruction. Seagulls circling, fog horns incessantly, and...

  • Arnold 2022-03-24 09:01:50

    I tried to think about why and what kind of meaning this form of retro (wave?) came into being. The director said that he was directly influenced by Jean Epstein, Flaherty and Bergman, which seems to even take the question to the level of "what is a movie", is it time to ask the ultimate question? Especially after Lao Ma's doubts about superhero movies... I think at least the sensory side developed by the movie can no longer be removed, and it is impossible to completely return to the spectacle...

Extended Reading

The Lighthouse quotes

  • Thomas Wake: Keepin secrets eh?

    Ephraim Winslow: No sir

  • Thomas Wake: Yer fond of me lobster aint' ye? I seen it - yer fond of me lobster! Say it! Say it. Say it!

    Ephraim Winslow: I don't have to say nothin'.

    Thomas Wake: Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK!

    Thomas Wake: Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!

    Ephraim Winslow: Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin'.