THE WITCH showed the director's penchant for a noticeable lack of special effects -because a small budget- but artificiality using noisy music as a predictable resource to cover the visual weakness of the story.

The same element appears here: this is not but a free version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' s THE RHYME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER in which a curse is unbound when the main character kills an albatross while sailing.

As the best valuable asset, the photography and the format are immaculate and they consolidate the atmosphere that is wanted to be created, but the plot does not happen to be coherent and Willem Dafoe's character is quite forced as well as false, because he tends to be a poet of destruction, something far from believable for such kind of workers. This is another gross failure in the story, because his exaggerated behaviour gradually destroys a better way tp face Pattinson's role. I need to accept that the latter's performance is quite measured and balances the bombastic acting of Dafoe.

I believe that the weakness of the character development and the directors instructions lessened the well-known acting efficiency of the actor.