I’m sitting here watching, again, my favorite movie, Half Light. I found this movie by accident, or I should say, my husband found it. One time, several years ago, he was in the video store and picked it up, thinking it looked like something I would like. He was right. I later bought the movie on DVD. I was searching through Netflix this morning, looking for a mystery to watch, and I saw it. I had to watch it again.
Why this is my favorite movie:
1. The setting in Scotland is BEAUTIFUL.
2. Even though it’s not scary, it’s eerie.
3. The people in the town are strange and mysterious.
4. The acting is great – Demi Moore and Hans Matheson.
5. There’s a romance between a tortured writer and a mysterious lighthouse keeper.
6. There’s a couple of really strange twists that I didn’t see coming.
There’s so much to love about this movie. My husband doesn’t really like it. It’s not his kind of thing. I absolutely love the mysterious, creepy feel of the movie. It IS my kind of thing.
So maybe you should give it a try. I have to warn you…something very tragic happens in the beginning of the movie, and it’s really bad. So if you can’t handle stuff like that, you better not watch it. But the thing has to happen to set up the rest of the movie. And don’t expect a normal HEA. I wanted to scream at the movie. But there is some satisfaction. The only thing that might frustrate you (it did me) about the movie is that there are a few things that I think were left unanswered. But I think that’s kind of on purpose so you can draw your own conclusions. And there’s a couple of times the townspeople speak in Gaelic, and you never know what they said…unless you speak Gaelic.
Okay, I’m going to unpause the movie and carry on.
P.S. I’ve apparently posted about this movie before because when I was doing the tags for the post, some of the stuff automatically came up, so I’ve used those tags before. LOL
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I’m game. I’ll go to Netflix later today and track down the movie. I remember enjoying Premonition (I think that is what it was called) with Sandra Bullock (I love her so I try to watch whatever she’s in). It was a movie with one of those endings that left you wondering and having to come up with your own conclusions, but it also had a somewhat satisfying ending, too. Endings like that drive me crazy, but at the same time, I usually enjoy the movie so much I still want to watch it again. LOL
Thanks for the recommendation. 😀
I hope you like it! It has a very mysterious, melancholy feel to it.
I saw it. 😀 The music, scenery and way the camera angles were done did wonders to set the mood. I also like the transitions between scenes. See? I now analyze movies and think of how it applies to writing a book. LOL
The beginning was sad so yeah, that was hard to watch. But the rest of it played along with everything else. I didn’t think the ending left me hanging but maybe I missed something. 😀 I tend to be the type who sees things in black and white versus underlying shades of gray.
Oh, I really enjoyed it. 😀
I’m glad you liked it, Ruth. The part that I wanted to know was what Patrick meant when he said to Sharon, “Do you remember what I was doing when we first met?” And she nods. I WANT TO KNOW what he was doing. 🙂 And I would love to know what the people were saying in Gaelic. But I did understand what happened at the end. I wish it had ended in a more HEA, but it worked better the way it was written.
Thanks for the recommendation! Always looking for a good movie. 🙂
I hope you enjoy it if you watch it. It’s different!
I did enjoy this film but felt it was a little slow moving.
Setting and themes were right up my alley though.
You know, it would seem slow moving to my husband, too. But even in the slow parts, I was glued to the screen. Every moment in the movie meant something. I usually don’t like movies that move slowly, but I felt like this one had to be this way. Wasn’t the setting beautiful? I loved the town and the lighthouse.
I have never heard of this film, but I love light houses!
I do, too. I really enjoyed visiting the Portland Headlight in Maine.