The Lighthouse
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saisokuku I can think of a guy friend or two who would drive me crazy if we were isolated on a lighthouse island for weeks on end. Such is the fate of a 19th -century older man, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and younger, Ephraim Winslow (Rob Pattinson. So many literary themes arise from the many symbols and motifs that artistic enjoyment is like the inevitable storm-overpowering and beautiful.
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saisokuku Meanwhile director/co-writer Robert Eggers lards his scenes with rich, sometimes Hitchcockian metaphors such as ravenous sea gulls and winding staircases, reminiscent of The Birds and Vertigo with identity and self-preservation the primary motifs. At one point each of the antagonists is called Tom/Tommy to reinforce the unknown forces similar inside each.
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saisokuku Such is the power of personal narrative shared with a stranger to reveal a Darwinian arc that matches the dark passages in the world outside. While the two are descending into their own maelstrom, the world outside is raging in a classic Nor'easter to reinforce the need to protect themselves from it but the fate to bring the storm to themselves.
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saisokuku The Lighthouse is worth seeing again if only to recognize the dark side of human nature, emboldened by isolation and raging loneliness. The almost-boxed aspect ratio will convince even the skeptics of the narrow, inescapable burden of being human and the link with German expressionism, which showed in cinema the dark, imbalanced quality of being human even in the presence of blazing light.