OK it's this article. Slight retcon here: He dances through the fact that several things we see never really happened and the whole point was for us to be left confused. I still didn't like that. Rather than the surrealism being clues, some of it is intentional confusion and we can't tell which.
Ah, I gotcha I guess my approach to the Eggers oeuvre (maybe less NOSFERATU) is the the perspective is so in the character’s universe that there isn’t something to solve—was there really a barrow-wight in NORTHMAN? there was for Amleth—but I also don’t think like THE LIGHTHOUSE compels that read