The Lighthouse (2019)

a review by Evan Landon

I wanted to watch this one for a really long time! I was not disappointed, at all. What a gem!

Let me give ya the rundown, right off the bat: 2 light keepers are sent to an island. It's prob turn of the 20th century & possibly off the coast of Massachusetts because of an amazing job w/ his “Bahstahn” accent by Robert Pattinson. What a delight, by the way. I would have totally shit on this movie with no problem just because Edward Cullen was a main character. But man... Do I love being absolutely wrong sometimes! What else...? Oh yes. An award-winning performance from Willem Dafoe. Remember him?! Also, Award-winning performances all around, from direction, to writing, to cinematography.. Amazing work here by the writer/producer/director Robert Eggers who wrote this with his brother, Max Eggers. Really great work when brothers work together, right?

Anyways, the entire movie is shot in black and white which is an extremely bold choice for any movie, much less with the studios and actors attached. The cinematography and writing find ways around this, which gives it that edgy, indie-darling sorta vibe that “hipster film fucks like me find so amazing”, but I digress. What a lot of directors do, is they forget the audience. This is not that movie.

This is easily a stage play. Plain and simple. You could literally put these two assholes anywhere and would kill it. The dialogue, the grit, uggggh.. Should this director win more awards since 2020 fuckin decided to leave us all high & dry? Yes. Should I be paid for these shills? Absolutely.

...or maybe it's the shrooms I ate. Idk.

5 out of 5