Watching: The Lighthouse

[white_hart]

Robert Eggers's new film, The Lighthouse, stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as two lighthouse keepers trapped on a tiny, rocky island by a storm. Shot in a self-consciously artistic black and white with a minimalist and often mumbled script, it feels rather like I imagine The Rime of the Ancient Mariner might have done if it had been written by Samuel Beckett. By which I mostly mean confusing, over-long and very manpainy. It also features far more wanking than I ever wanted to see on screen, even when suggestively obscured by the arty cinematography. Not one I'd recommend.

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[legionseagle]

The lighthouse incident I was thinking of was the Ross Island lighthouse murder, in which reputedly the local (Kirkudbridghtshire) paper was supposed to have given the headline: "Lighthouse Keeper Found Slain: Other Keeper Missing, Police Baffled." Apparently the murderer haunts the lighthouse cottages; I met someone who was doing them up for holiday lets and apparently he used to materialise and look disapproving whenever he didn't like the choice of wallpaper.

[white_hart]

I think it's probably quite like that, really. With added wanking. Oh, and fantasising about raping a mermaid.