Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed The Lighthouse (which to me is the main thing)... I'm not sure it was as brainy as it thought. I mean there was a gay subtext but so what, the lighthouse is phallic so what, there were all these kinds of links to prometheus and other myths but... I'm not sure that just saying "I've read some classics" adds much to a film unless it links in to something and takes it further. Maybe it did and I missed it, but I saw the film as a lot of half-explored ideas that never quite landed... but also so what.