The Lighthouse
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potatsuraka Director Robert Eggers' debut film, The Witch" was an amazingly realized horror film that was disturbing, thought provoking, and eloquently written. In my review for that film, I said I believed it was one of the best horror films of the last decade; I still believe that.
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potatsuraka From the atmosphere hinted at in the trailers, I expected "The Lighthouse" to be a horror film, and there are some moments in "The Lighthouse" that are undeniably horrific, but, in my opinion, this film defies genre classification by transcending it. "The Lighthouse" is an experience more than it is anything else; I came out of it feeling overwhelmed, as if I'd just watched Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" for the first time. The premise of this film is so simple, yet the way in which the story is told and the way it plays on certain ideas, touches on so many big ideas. The ending is powerfully symbolic, and furthermore, it felt eerily harmonious with the ending Eggers gave us in "The Witch.
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potatsuraka Two days later, I still had yet to write this review because I was still processing it, replaying certain scenes, trying to process the themes. So when the opportunity came to see the film again, I leapt at it. Now, having watched the film twice, and having still spent time trying to process everything I'd seen, I feel correct in saying this film deserves nothing less than Five Stars; this is also one of those films where I feel like every time I watch it I'll discover something new.