The Lighthouse

I never give movies five stars, like ever, but this movie deserves it. It's made its way into my top 5 which has been the same for a year. This movie is made in my favorite style of film, and if I ever made a movie it would basically be this, but a different plot. I love the square frame, the black and white, the cuts to scenes that make no sense, the darkness with one source of light, the centered nature of everything and the minimal dialogue. This movie is very much in the same nature as "Eraserhead" but this movie was darker and more twisted, while "Eraserhead" was just weird but nothing was that sinister or dark. I said this earlier but I've NEVER seen a movie that emulates how I'd want to make a movie more than this one. Nothing was off par what I want in a film either. I have so many film ideas in my head and the visuals and audio all looks and sounds like this film. I think I've seen a couple other movies they sort of made a movie this way, but neither were too good, but this movie did it perfectly. This is my type of movie for sure. Especially the drawn out scenes with no dialogue and little to no movement. I made a short film a few months ago for a class and it sort of had the same editing style and sound style (mind you I used the audio from Eraserhead) that "The Lighthouse" had. Keep in mind it was as close to this as I could get with a $0 budget. Also at that time I still hadn't seen this, so I'm mind-fucked that there's a movie out there that was in the style I want to make movies. I loved how Pattinson would just stare directly into the camera but it never actually felt like he was staring at the camera. There were too many scenes that I loved for me to list them all, because I'd in all honesty just name off every scene in the movie. The only part I didn't love was when DaFoe was an octopus for like five seconds. I felt like cgi ruined the feeling the movie had. It didn't look like shitty cgi but it just felt out of place, because 95% of the movie was real and so adding one scene that was heavily edited just felt kind of misguided. This movie has my favorite ending of all time, beating out Requiem for a Dream's ending. Like the last minute was just amazing. The distorted screams, the seaguls, the disembowelment, all of the last minute was done perfectly and without a flaw. The best line that's stuck with me is, "Why'd y'spill yer beans, Tommy? Why'd y'spill yer beans?" In any other movie this would absolutely ruin the entire film, but it fit so perfectly into the scene it was in, plus it was said in such a way where it didn't sound like some comical relief line. I know I'm late to watching this movie but I finally got my Blu-ray in the mail after two weeks, so yeah, easily a 15/15.