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This is Ingmar Bergman thru and thru - it starts as Through A Glass Darkly (isolated bottle setting, an island and the house on it, captured on stark, bleak, black and white) and then, through the course of the movie, as the characters booze, become perversely co-dependent and muddle together, it transforms into Persona. As a side note, following in that vein, this also heavily reminded me of the 1963 English movie The Servant. The movie itself is shot excellently, and the sound design, though at times overwhelming the picture, is used extremely efficiently, effectively enhancing the eerie tone. I wouldn't necessarily call the movie exactly boring, but I did frequently space out for seconds at a time, particularly during the very dialogue heavy scenes, so there's a good chance I may have missed crucial details, but all the more good reason to rewatch it. Also the ending, while I don't mind ambiguous endings at all, this one was a little too random - Pattinson finally reaches the lighthouse lamp, burns his hand, tumbles down the stairs, and then cut to him completely naked outside and being pecked by gulls... how'd he get there? He could've crawled out, but what happened to his clothes? Did Defoe live and do that to him? All that aside, the technical prowess far outweighs the lack of entertainment some viewers might have. The movie was refreshing to see in this era, and is both extremely unique, and a terrific throwback to European horror movies of the 50's & '60's.
score 8/10
nikitalinivenko 2 November 2019
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2-12-2019 21:54:27
