My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Lighthouse
The duo of Dafoe and Pattinson is superb, the camera work is magnificent, monologues of a drunken captain in the spirit of Melville are well wrought. Allusions to the H. P. Lovecraft, Hitchcock's "Birds" and the Greek tragedy are well placed. And all that for what? To show two men on a desolate island to drink themselves into oblivion.
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