![]() ![]() Tommy especially convinces himself that Tom won’t allow him into the light room because Tom is having an affair with the light. As expected in a horror where two characters are trapped in isolation, things start to get tense and ultimately bonkers mad. Tom is the older, experienced wicker and spends most of his time bossing Tommy (the apprentice) about, usually in-between some impressive loud farts. We see these characters try to co-inhabit while going about their daily work tasks. Our two leads are Tom (Willem Dafoe) and Ephraim (Robert Pattinson) – who we later discover is actually called Tommy, so this is the name I’ll continue to use for him throughout. The Lighthouse follows the isolated lives of two wickies sent to the furthest island in the sea to run a lighthouse. And so, let’s talk about how gay The Lighthouse really is. Plus, if it gives me the opportunity to write about one of my new favourite films, why wouldn’t I dedicate an edition of this column to this noir horror delight. Perhaps I’ve come accustomed to declaring everything gay, but this one seemed too obvious to miss. However, when scanning through tweets and reviews of this film I found very few people talking about this interpretation. ![]() ![]() To me, this film is so clearly gay that an analysis of its homoerotic subtext would be like arguing the sky is blue. Originally, when I was first researching my column, I hadn’t planned to include this film. ![]()
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