more like aSNOREa
jk, pretty good.
Not nearly as scary as the dude that approached our group outside the theater at 1 in the morning right after we saw this, asking us all for a ride to his place 10 miles away. Having just learned a lesson about inviting darkness into your space, and hoping to make it home alive and well, we all declined. But he haunted us back to our cars and passive aggressively jeered “well merry Christmas to me I guess”. Our own little Nosferatu to greet us at the midnight hour.
Anyway, this is probably Eggers best.
It's a rich text that got even richer on second viewing. What's haunting me most about this movie is how likeable Robert De Niro is. He is evil incarnate and yet through it all I keep thinking "he can't be all that bad, come on he's such a sweet old man!" He is a source of comfort and stability to these characters, even as he orchestrates some of the most heinous acts imaginable upon them. And man, does evil not…