——The film "Lighthouse" The whole film of "Lighthouse" adopts a highly stylized 1.19:1 format, a black and white film image with rich texture, and its composition and use of light make this film visually full of artistic sense. The film's high-contrast black-and-white images create turbulence and storms in the viewer's field of vision at any time. Light leaks and dizziness create an eerie atmosphere. At a climax in the film, the male protagonist looks up in the dark and looks up at the old tower guard doing indescribable things naked at the tower light. The male protagonist looked up, his face was marked with the strong light of the lighthouse and the black mark of the hollow board. The moment is filled with a sense of religion, adding to the theology. The old man once said that "the only antidote is alcohol". The first time the male protagonist heard this sentence, he just dropped a sentence of "stupid", but later he also gradually became obsessed with alcohol. Loneliness amplifies his desire and also makes him gradually crazy. When there are many dark colors, it is full of depression and despair, and the darkness is always hiding something. When the two of them stood in the storm and waited for the boat to pick them up, except for the lighthouse behind them, it was all dark. One tall and one short black figure was looking at the sea desperately, so dark that he could not see any details. Despair has become a common experience for both of them. There are two prominent light sources in the film, one is the lamp on the table when the two are getting along, which shines on the faces of the characters like sculptures, to highlight the details of the faces, to sculpt the characters, and set the tone for horror and depression. . The other is the lighthouse, which is like the source of desire. After killing the old tower guard, the male protagonist with blood on his hands entered the lighthouse as he wished. Black forms a high contrast, vividly conveying the desire of the male protagonist to be satisfied. The latter part of the film does not seem to give a reasonable explanation for everything that happened, there is no order of time, there is no cause and effect, and it is even falsely intertwined. All supernatural phenomena such as mermaids and cages may be fact or fantasy. The tone began to be trance and messy, and everything was intertwined. The film full of tension and blackness finally fell into irrationality and loneliness.
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