It's shot in black and white for the effect, it's not amazing, it's a old technology that we had because there was nothing better before, using it for effect is, it's a hackneyed mode that's been used in depressing heavy metal videos and 101 other things before. Making winter black and white and summer techicolor, is just too contrived. If was done on a shoestring budget by up and coming film makers, well fine, but this title has household name actors.
Anyway loads of tense things happen, some between the two lighthousemen who are sometimes friends sometimes enemies, but both are repulsive. The acting is excellent, filming good and but the story meh and is mostly just a collection of incidents. They seem to go mad from isloation, but in reality lighthousmen are introverts that are more than happy on their own. One man's bleak and depressing is another man's rugged and invigorating. Plenty of lighthouses are actually near villages, only a few are on some rocky island cut off from civilization. The music is overly tense, at times the music sounds like someone should be being stabbed or strangled, but a character is just walking down a rugged path or pulling a rope with a lobster pot on the end.
Probably best viewed in an arthouse cinema when high.
Anyway loads of tense things happen, some between the two lighthousemen who are sometimes friends sometimes enemies, but both are repulsive. The acting is excellent, filming good and but the story meh and is mostly just a collection of incidents. They seem to go mad from isloation, but in reality lighthousmen are introverts that are more than happy on their own. One man's bleak and depressing is another man's rugged and invigorating. Plenty of lighthouses are actually near villages, only a few are on some rocky island cut off from civilization. The music is overly tense, at times the music sounds like someone should be being stabbed or strangled, but a character is just walking down a rugged path or pulling a rope with a lobster pot on the end.
Probably best viewed in an arthouse cinema when high.