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This looks like two movies cut together. It makes absolutely no sense. I don't understand the story at all - I guess that they wanted to end the film with a punchline but they just punched themselves in the face, but the connection between the chapters are not present either. How do we jump from Tibet to the USA? Who is killing the folks? And why? And what does it have to do with the cult sect? It looks like the there was a slasher horror movie unfinished in the drawer, and a sci-fi mystery move in another drawer, and the company just asked randomly someone to cut together a movie. I don't recommend you to watch it.
After 1500 reviews, I do not want to be the 1501st that tells the same thing: this cinematographic experience was a l'art pour l'art movie without the aim of entertaining the public. Oh yes, you won't be entertained. But still, you will love it.
So this is the kind of art that I was missing: loving something but not being enchanted by it. It is in fact about two devils (Defoe and Pattinson) who are fighting for the ownership of hell on earth. They want to own this hell which is a small island with a lighthouse, but in fact, this hell owned them before.
So don't expect that you'll understand the story of this movie for the first time. I am not sure if this movie can be or should be understood. Yet, it has a profound message that won't let you sleep for a while.
The whole movie makes me remember an old movie and its remake: Sleuth. The first Sleuth movie was from 1972 - in that version Laurence Olivier played the role of the old guy and Michael Caine was the youngster; while in the 2007 remake, Michael Caine was the old timer and Jude Law was the youngster.
For a handful of reasons, The Lighthouse has some deep parallelism with the Sleuth movies. If I hadn't red the behind the scenes stories, I would have assumed that Daniel Defoe and Robert Pattinson had a great time together on stage. But they did not. It was not because of any disliking each other. It was because of the hellish island which started to own them...
So this is the kind of art that I was missing: loving something but not being enchanted by it. It is in fact about two devils (Defoe and Pattinson) who are fighting for the ownership of hell on earth. They want to own this hell which is a small island with a lighthouse, but in fact, this hell owned them before.
So don't expect that you'll understand the story of this movie for the first time. I am not sure if this movie can be or should be understood. Yet, it has a profound message that won't let you sleep for a while.
The whole movie makes me remember an old movie and its remake: Sleuth. The first Sleuth movie was from 1972 - in that version Laurence Olivier played the role of the old guy and Michael Caine was the youngster; while in the 2007 remake, Michael Caine was the old timer and Jude Law was the youngster.
For a handful of reasons, The Lighthouse has some deep parallelism with the Sleuth movies. If I hadn't red the behind the scenes stories, I would have assumed that Daniel Defoe and Robert Pattinson had a great time together on stage. But they did not. It was not because of any disliking each other. It was because of the hellish island which started to own them...