This movie is about 2 ancient Sailor types who have to man a lighthouse in the (1800s?). This is apparently a thankless, tedious and taxing experience which causes the two men (one young and one old) to desend into madness.

Honstely, I didn't know what to expect when I watched it. I didn't know (and still don't) know if it were meant to be a horro film, psycological thriller or some sort of homoertoic medaphore for something that esacped me.

I didn't like it. It started off ok and the two actors are powerhouses so I can't blame their acting for this. I blame the writing and directing. There is some sort of homoerotic leaning as that at one point one of the men watches another pleasure himself and we the audience get to see the other man pleasure himself. It doesn't seem to fit with the dark tone, the two men don't have that kind of chemistry between them and a lot of the movies makes absolutely not sense.

A movie should have a begnning, middle and end that resolves. That's what I want in a movie in that I get to have in fantasy what I don't get in life, predictability. I'm not saying I want the movie to be predictable, but I want that formula. THis one sort of starts in the middle, and eventually ends, but there is no resolve, only questions, and first among those is "what the hell was that?"

I say dont' watch this one. Read reviews and save yourself about an hour and a half that you could spend doing anything else, which would be more productive and enteratining than this dribble.

Oh yeah, it's got a mermaid in it, but that doesn't do anthing to make it more interesting, it only brings up more questions.