Coming out of The Lighthouse feels like waking from a fitful sleep filled with dreams that feel somehow significant, even if you’re not sure what they mean or how they all fit together.
The opening premise is simple: Sometime in the late 19th century, two men, Tom (Willem Dafoe) and Ephraim (Robert Pattinson) arrive at a tiny island off the coast of New England to tend to the lighthouse there for the next four weeks.
What happens next, though, is much harder to explain. Suffice it to say the men descend into madness. Whether it’s a product of their circumstances (boredom, booze, extreme isolation) or more supernatural causes remains in question. Read more…
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