Loved it

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2019)

Woo. What a film. I knew nothing, not even its genre. Just that it had a high rotten tomatoes score. It started slow. I became impatient at parts. I considered skipping some parts. What is this about. The moment I became hooked? When her husband turns up dazed and confused. He starts convulsing blood. Is this a zombie film? No. We are shown "The Shimmering". What on earth is this? Delight.
The film takes off. I still reserve doubts about what they can show will shock. But it grows. It stands out in its originality but still has moments that remind of other films. One involving a monster that doesn't eat you if you don't move. Jurassic Park?
More than this is the film revolves around the idea we are all created with biological need to "self-destruct" in one way or another. This idea plays out when an alien crash lands in a lighthouse and does things differently. It is not a being in the sense of you or me but like a new compiler. Refactoring nature's code.
Perhaps this could have been better explored than through Lena's (Natalie Portman) affair. It brings affairs as a self-destructive thing coded into us. So in a way the film is more human/relatable than this cool alien thing that crashed landed into a lighthouse and makes everything trippy. Which is the part I loved.