Holy shit now THIS was a movie. Loved every second of it.
The ending with Pattinson and the distorted screams really fucking got me. The sound en colors in that shot are really intense, I almost had to look away.
Up there with Parasite and Joker for favorite movie this year.
Also, is The Witch any good? Does it have any jumpscares or is dit more like The Lighthouse?
I accidentally clicked this thread and I haven't seen the Lighthouse yet BUT if you're looking for atmospheric horror that doesn't rely on jumpscares then yes definitely see The Witch. Similar use of historically accurate dialect as well.Holy shit now THIS was a movie. Loved every second of it.
The ending with Pattinson and the distorted screams really fucking got me. The sound en colors in that shot are really intense, I almost had to look away.
Up there with Parasite and Joker for favorite movie this year.
Also, is The Witch any good? Does it have any jumpscares or is dit more like The Lighthouse?
Holy shit now THIS was a movie. Loved every second of it.
The ending with Pattinson and the distorted screams really fucking got me. The sound en colors in that shot are really intense, I almost had to look away.
Up there with Parasite and Joker for favorite movie this year.
Also, is The Witch any good? Does it have any jumpscares or is dit more like The Lighthouse?
Going to watch The Witch next. I really hate jumpscares and have fainted before because of it (yeah I know lol) Especially hate it when it builds up and BOOM.
But The Witch Sounds really solid!
Thnx guys :).
I'm currently watching this a second time and you really solidified what the movie is about for me cause it's all I see 😂 very good job 👍Thanks! The direct homage to the Hypnos illustration really seals it for me.
Does anyone have the woman's name at the end of the credits that they said the dialogue was based off?
My take:
The entire movie is a metaphore about living with addiction, specifically alcoholism. I don't think any of the film's events are literal.
Hey, there were lots of great movies this year!I'm currently watching this a second time and you really solidified what the movie is about for me cause it's all I see 😂 very good job 👍
Also this movie is ducking amazing and I don't know if I can say it officially because it's hurts me to it really does but I might like this movie more then avengers end game 😳
One thing I didn't catch was during one of the more insane moments when Young Tom makes that turpentine based hooch and Old Tom belts out a weird sentence after sampling it.
The hell did he say??
Monkey PUMP!
I don't understand why he says it but goddamn I felt it lol
I am going to throw a fit if Dafoe doesn't get at the very least an Oscar nom for this. Literally one of my favorite performances of all time.
The lack of a golden globe nomination was absolutely staggering. What a massive fucking oversight.
The iTunes version of the film has no English subs (except for French) and I have to assume that's deliberate on the part of the filmmakers. Like a musician who doesn't want to publish the lyrics to their songs.
Oh wow for real?! That's weird. Amazon version definitely had the subtitles. I've watched my favorite scenes over and over with them on. I seriously can't get over how much I love this movie man lol.
Golden Globes can differ from Oscars for some reason. Like the year Aaron Taylor Johnson won the GG for Nocturnal Animals, but didn't receive an Oscar nom for it, and Tom Hardy in the Revenant wasn't nominated that same year for a GG, but received an Oscar nom, which he probably should have won imo. So that's what I'm hoping for here. Not only does Dafoe deserve the nomination, he totally deserves to actually win the Oscar for this.
Whats with Dafoe'e character beaming light into Pattinson's in one scene ?
A representation of his gaslighting or something else ?
Does this movie has the most realistic theories of any movie.Finally saw it. What. A. Movie!
I read a theory that this is his purgatory and both characters are actually the same man who is doomed to repeat this over and over.
His is probably the most watchable and rewatchable performance of the decade for me.
the monologue after he said he wasnt should have gotten me at least a nomination for best supporting actor lmao
Amazing movie. Loved everything about it, the setting, the plot, the acting. I'm not sure if it's better, but I think I prefer this one over The Witch. Something interesting I read about this was that while The Witch is a study on femininity, this one is a study on masculinity. I like that.
I also really liked that this movie is weird without being weird for the sake of it in a Lynchian, inconprehensible way. I think this is a movie made in a way that all the readings people are making of it are correct. In my own interpretation this movie has two very obvious layers: The plot that is real and actually happening and a symbolic layer that could be both Young Tom's alcoholic hallucinations and messages and universal imagens intented for the audience to illustrate what is happening to Young Tom.
I think everything that happens in Young Tom's perspective actually happened in reality. The catch here is the gaslighting that Old Tom does to him, that distorts his mind more and more as the movie progresses. Old Tom is a man with a boring life and never was anything other than a lighthouse keeper, and he resents that, so he makes up all sorts of stories about his life. He seems to resent how Young Tom worked in a totally different place like the forests in Canada and the fact he read books and is aware of the regulaments. Old Tom's hobby is to drive his subordinates insane and abuse them as much as he can, both because he envies them and also because he is a bored sadist.
Old Tom did not kill his previous assistant but makes up that he died to scare Young Tom. He planted the mermaid idol in Young Tom's bed to make his story stronger. Everything, including trying to get Young Tom drink and open up constantly, being adamant about the light being his, the seagulls, forcing him to do long hours of hardwork, everything is a tool to torture Young Tom even further. The mermaid also represents Young Tom's repressed sexuality in that isolated place and the lonely life he is being living for a long time, Old Tom's way of reliving his sexual urges though is through forcing his subordinates into deep submission. There are a lot of sexual innuendos when he abuses the young assistant ("I will make you suck these rusty nails") and how he constantly makes remarks about how Young Tom is handsome. Old Tom also forces him to open himself up to better hurt him like using the fact he deeply disliked being called a dog and how guilty he felt for leaving Ephraim Winslow to drown. But the final proof of how the abuse is the axe scene, when Old Tom clearly doesn't even bother anymore in being subtle. The problem that leads to the movie's climax is that Young Tom appears to be submissive when he is trying to rebuild his life and never repeat his mistake again, but when pushed enough he is a violent person capable of horrible things, something that Old Tom never had to deal before.
That's a lot to unpack in this movie, this is barely scratching the surface. One of the best movies of 2019, period.