Devin Davis’s review published on Letterboxd:
This movie tries WAY TOO hard to be ambiguous and allegorical that it really just doesn’t work and takes away from the movie. Yes, I understand the metaphorical aspects of the power struggle and male domination, sexual fantasies and even phallic symbolism. But the only good one is the Prometheus parallel at the end. The movie doesn’t work for me because the purpose is so detached from the film itself.
I would put it like this. Something like lord of the flies is able to be symbolic and allegorical without being so obvious that it ruins that element. It has enough cohesion and plot that it works well together. Whereas lord of the flies was still grounded, in the Lighthouse you almost stop seeing the actors as human in a certain sense because they are purely allegorical tools and not really characters. This movie is just like hey let me paint a neon sign and say there’s a million metaphorical aspects to this movie. Focus on them and interpret them as you would like. Something to be said for subtlety.
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