We finally just said, okay, act one and act two are in good shape letвЂ™s just write those. My brother and I had an act one and two that we really liked, but every time we tried to outline the whole movie, we didnвЂ™t have an act three. However, the ending, and the final image, took some time. That it would be, maybe not scary, but tense and hallucinatory and strange and provoke more questions than it would provide answers. That was definitely something I wanted from the beginning. It was always the idea to have this film be a bit obscure and ambiguous and, for lack of a better word, weird. LetвЂ™s begin at the ambiguous end вЂ“ did you have The LighthouseвЂ™s conclusion in mind from the start? Thus, shortly before its theatrical release (today), we spoke with the 36-year-old filmmaker about his crazed maritime sagaвЂ™s open-to-interpretation finale, the historical research that went into crafting its amazingly detailed words and images, and the different artistic approaches taken by its illustrious headliners. Culminating with an ending thatвЂ™s bound to baffle, itвЂ™s a moviegoing experience unlike any other вЂ“ and, to our mind, the film of the year. The Lighthouse details its duoвЂ™s sloshed, spiraling descent into insanity via a ceaseless string of malevolent images, most accompanied by Mark KorvenвЂ™s bellowing-from-the-bowels-of-hell score. It also confirms that Eggers вЂ“ whose debut, 2015вЂ™s The Witch, was cut from a similarly haunting period-piece cloth вЂ“ is one of AmericaвЂ™s most unique and daring auteurs.Дuring the course of Thomas and EphraimвЂ™s odyssey, a mystery arises as to what the former might be hiding from the latter at the top of the lighthouse, and EphraimвЂ™s hunger to attain that which heвЂ™s been denied is eventually complicated by visions of a mermaid siren and slithering sea beasts. Scripted with ornate old-English dialogue (with his brother Max) and shot in a constricting 4:3 aspect ratio and in weathered black and white, it feels like a gnarly artifact from another era (or world).

Soggy, creaky and oppressively downcast, itвЂ™s a film of briny menace and flatulent humor, charting its two protagonistsвЂ™ attempts to complete their isolated job while coping with the resentment, distrust and psychosis that soon threatens to subsume them.

ThereвЂ™s madness in the salty air, the crashing waves and the seagull squawks of The Lighthouse, Robert EggersвЂ™ nautical nightmare about a pair of 19 th-century New England lighthouse keepers вЂ“ veteran Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and wet-behind-the-ears Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) вЂ“ charged with manning their illuminated tower on a barren, isolated Atlantic Ocean rock.

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