The Lighthouse

The film The Lighthouse is a 2019 psychological thriller starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as two men stuck on an island, manning a lighthouse. Summary Two men arrive on an island. Dafoe plays the grizzled old lighthouse keeper. Pattinson plays a sober younger assistant. Dafoe puts Pattinson to work on various tasks. Pattinson finds a wooden mermaid shortly after landing and masturbates to it. Seagulls around the island bother Pattinson. He kills a one-eyed bird. Dafoe complains that it’s bad luck to kill seagulls. The weather changes the day before they are supposed to leave and they get stuck on the island. Pattinson sees a mermaid on the beach and caresses it until it awakens and laughs at him as he runs away. ...

November 20, 2024

Law Abiding Citizen

The film Law Abiding Citizen is not good, especially the second half. The first half of the film has some interesting dilemmas and and makes for an compelling thriller, but the filmmakers stumbled over the ending. The Plot The movie starts with Gerard Butler who lives in a regular middle-to-upper class home with a wife and daughter. Two robbers come to the door and restrain Butler while stealing stuff from the foyer. His wife comes to the door, is attacked, and is raped in front of Butler by one of the thieves. His daughter notices from the hallway, after which she is taken by the same thief and raped and murdered. ...

November 13, 2024