Winslow is attacked by the one-eyed gull and he brutally kills it in anger. The day before his scheduled departure, Winslow discovers a dead gull inside the cistern, bloodying its water.

One evening while dining, Wake reveals to Winslow that his previous wickie died after losing his sanity, while Winslow reveals that he is a former timberman from Maine seeking a new trade. He also continues to observe Wake's strange ritual and is bothered by a one-eyed gull that Wake tells him not to kill, as he believes that gulls are reincarnated sailors. During his stay on the island, Winslow begins to hallucinate sea monsters and logs floating in the sea, and masturbates to the mermaid on the scrimshaw. Winslow observes that every evening, Wake secretly ascends the lighthouse and disrobes before the light. Wake immediately proves to be very demanding, assigning Winslow increasingly taxing jobs such as emptying chamber pots, painting the lighthouse, and carrying heavy kerosene containers up the stairs, while forbidding him access to the lantern room.

In his quarters, Winslow discovers a small scrimshaw of a mermaid and keeps it in his jacket. In 1890s New England, Ephraim Winslow serves a contract job as a 'wickie' ( lighthouse keeper) for a month on a small isolated island off of the coast, under the supervision of the island's longtime keeper, Thomas Wake. The film was praised for Eggers' ability as a filmmaker and the performances of the leads, and it was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 92nd Academy Awards and 73rd British Academy Film Awards. The film had its world premiere at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2019, and was theatrically released on October 18, by A24 in the United States. Principal photography began in April around the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and lasted a total of 34 days in Leif Erikson Park in Cape Forchu, and inside a hangar at Yarmouth Airport. Dafoe and Pattinson were cast as the lead characters in February 2018. When the project stalled, Robert offered to work with his brother, and the project evolved into a period thriller with the Poe elements largely removed. Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star as two lighthouse keepers who begin to descend into madness when a storm strands them on the remote island where they are stationed.ДЄccording to the director, although the final story bears little resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe's fragment ' The Light-House', the film began as an attempt by his brother Max Eggers to create a contemporary take on the Poe story. It was an international co-production of the United States and Canada, with the film being shot in black-and-white with a nearly square 1.19:1 aspect ratio. The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Max Eggers.

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