Review of The Lighthouse (2019) by Dredgman — 25 Oct 2019
Wow, what a masterpiece! Starting with the visuals, The Lighthouse is absolutely gorgeous to look at. The imagery feels instantly iconic, and the almost-square aspect ratio helps set the time period as well as add claustrophobia to the mix.
Dafoe and Pattinson are riveting in their roles, giving career-best performances. There is an interesting ebb and flow to their relationship in the movie as if discussing, can men — or at least heterosexual men — truly be intimate with each other? As the men become more intimate during their time cloistered on this island, they push each other away, perhaps by sheer masculinity, only to revisit a need for human connection yet again.
There are also themes of power and the desire for it, or at least to be respected as an equal. And as one might expect in a film about spending weeks on an island, sanity also comes into question.
The few occasions during the moving in which my immersion broke were only because I found myself considering what must have been a truly brutal and demanding filming process.
This review of The Lighthouse (2019) was written by Dredgman on 25 October 2019.
The Lighthouse has generally received very positive reviews.
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