RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 24, 2023 at 12:28 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2023 at 12:30 am by Rev. Rye.)
(September 23, 2023 at 12:31 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Lighthouse (2019). Talk about AI - this movie looks like it was done by AI that was fed on Criterion Collection. Bunch of "artistic" images without any storyline and the obligatory violent ending. I guess you could say it's style over substance.
For the horror, he took what seems like elements from Christianity - like guilt and punishment over masturbation - although I don't think that the director is a Christian, but, you know, other movies use it too.
Here’s a place to start:
No, as far as I can tell, Robert Eggers isn’t Christian. He just prefers to immerse the viewer in the historical environment as possible. And if that environment is largely Christian, Christianity might seep into it. And if he’s making a movie set in Viking days, it’s going to be steeped in Norse Mythology. And not even just the stories from the Poetic Edda, but the way people from that era lived, and the way they saw the world is the way Eggers and us will see that world. And I know this because his next film did exactly that.
Oddly, between The Northman and The Witch (set in Puritan New England) this might actually be the least religious of Eggers’ feature film, though I suspect his upcoming Nosferatu remake might supplant that.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.