Movie name : The Lighthouse

Release date : 2019

In the late 1800s, retired timber-man Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) is sent on a boat to
serve a contract job as a wickie for four weeks on an isolated island with a gassy elderly man
named Thomas Wake (William Dafoe). On the first day of the job, Winslow notices that there is
a hole in his cot. As he digs into it, he finds a small wooden figurine of a mermaid and stuffs it in
his jacket. Wake is perceived by Winslow as a strange and superstitious fellow, going up to the
top of the lighthouse at night and stripping nude. Winslow decides to shrug it off but is drawn
towards the ocean. He sees floating tree stumps in the water along with a horrifying image of a
mermaid in the deep. Then he wakes, revealing this to be a dream.

Over the course of his stay, Winslow is allocated the more taxing jobs, refueling the light,
stirring the oil barrack, carrying heavy gasoline containers, and disposing of the two men's
chamber pots. As the weeks progress, Winslow becomes more and more curious as to Wake's
obsession with the light. He constantly is encountered by a strange seagull that constantly seeks
to annoy Winslow at every turn. Wake sees this and encourages Winslow at dinner to leave it
alone because it's bad luck to kill a seagull. The weeks continue, and Winslow constantly retreats
to the supply cabin to masturbate to the figurine of the mermaid, and like clockwork, he sees
Wake up on the top level of the lighthouse bare naked. One night at dinner, the two decide to get
to know each other. They finally introduce each other by name and discuss the previous wickie.
Wake says that his previous keeper passed away shortly after losing his sanity. Winslow tells
Wake about how he used to work up in the North but decided to change profession, and Wake
asks if he was running away from something he did on the mainland, which Winslow quickly
shrugs off. Winslow asks Wake why killing a seagull is a bad omen, and he explains that
Seagulls are vessels for the souls of dead seamen, which Winslow also shrugs off.

The day before Winslow is slated to leave, he notices a major jam in the oil barrack and goes to
see what the fuss is about. He opens the chamber to see a dying seagull stuck inside. The other
seagull who has been tormenting Winslow for the past month flies down to the oil barrack and
attacks him. Winslow grabs the seagull and violently beats it to death against a rock. That
afternoon, the winds finally stop, and Wake becomes paranoid that a storm is destined to attack
the island, and therefore proposes that the two of them drown their sorrows in alcohol before the
ferry comes tomorrow. They board up the windows, and the storm begins. As the night
progresses and the two get drunker and drunker, Winslow asks to go up to the top level of the
lighthouse, which leads to an argument between him and Wake. The next morning, the ferry is
nowhere to be seen, and Winslow decides to continue with his morning routine. This is,
however, cut short by a mysterious figure washing up on the shore. Winslow approaches the
body, which appears to be a naked woman until he looks down and realizes that she is actually a
mermaid. He runs back into the cottage to find Wake stating that the rations were impacted by
the storm. Wake informs Winslow that they buried a secret stash of rations next to the lighthouse
that they will need to get. The two dig up the giant crate, but it is revealed to only have more
alcohol.

Wake says it will likely take a longer time for the ferry to get here due to the storm. More nights
progress and the two become closer as they drink more and continue to be at each other's throats.
One night in the bedroom, Winslow, in a drunken stupor, harasses Wake and criticizes his
cooking skills, leading Wake to verbally curse out Winslow, asking Neptune to strike him dead
in a lengthy soliloquy. The days of the storm continue, and Winslow slowly begins to drink on
his own, and he loses his composure and his concept of time. He sneaks up to the top level of the
lighthouse but cannot enter without a key. As he gazes into the light, he begins to have visions of
tentacles moving inside. Wake begins to psychologically manipulate Winslow until he reveals
that his name is actually not Ephraim Winslow. He actually murdered a timber-man by that name
and assumed his identity. Wake accuses Winslow of "spilling his beans," and later on, Winslow
drunkenly breaks the mermaid figurine in half. Winslow has another vision of him pulling up a
lobster cage from the depths of the sea, containing the severed head of Wake's previous Wickie.
Eventually, Winslow can't take anymore and tries to kill Wake in his sleep to steal the key. This
proves unsuccessful, and Winslow tries to leave. He pushes the lifeboat out of the cabin, but
Wake sees this and uses an ax to destroy the boat. Wake chases Winslow into the cottage, but
inside, Wake continues with more psychological manipulation, claiming that it was actually
Winslow that chased Wake around the island with the ax. An undisclosed amount of time later,
the two have another drunken party together, until the storm becomes so powerful that the waves
crash through the windows and destroying the cottage.

The next morning the two wakes in a flooded cottage and Winslow decides to pick up Wake's
diary. Inside, he finds that Wake has decided not to pay Winslow for his services once the ferry
comes to pick them up, leading to another argument. Wake finally reveals that he knows
Winslow killed the seagull and brought bad omens upon the island. Winslow attacks Wake and
starts envisioning him as different people: first as the real Ephraim Winslow, then as the
mermaid, then as Poseidon himself. Enveloped in imaginary tentacles, he beats Wake into
submission. He then ties a collar around Wake's neck and forces him to walk and act like a dog.
He takes Wake over to the hole where they kept the crate of alcohol and covers Wake in the dirt
until he passes out. Winslow uses this opportunity to steal the key off him and runs back into the
cottage to find the cabinet. Wake, in a fit of rage, bursts into the cottage with the ax and hacks
Winslow in the shoulder. Winslow overpowers Wake and impales Wake right in the head.
Winslow then walks up to the top level of the lighthouse and finally sees what is inside the light.
He is then overpowered by the brightness and begins to maniacally laugh until he slips and falls
down the stairs all the way to the floor. The film ends with a final shot of Winslow lying naked
on the rocks, seagulls picking at his insides.