Elderly Lighthouse Keeper Watches Autonomous Fleet in Fog

the prompt

The last human lighthouse keeper in the world sits in the lantern room of his lighthouse off the coast of Maine, watching a fully autonomous shipping fleet pass silently in the fog below. He is in his seventies, weather-worn, unhurried. The camera observes him the way a documentary would, present but unobtrusive. He winds the mechanism by hand even though it is electric now. He drinks his coffee from a thermos. He writes in a logbook no one will read. The camera catches the details that tell his story, a wedding photo pinned above the window, a model ship half-built on the workbench, 47 years of logbooks stacked on a shelf. As night comes in, he turns on the light. It sweeps out across the water and catches a container ship hull for one second. The ship passes without acknowledgment. He watches it go. Then turns back to his logbook and writes one more entry. Camera pulls slowly back and upward until the lighthouse is a single point of light in the vast dark ocean. Quiet cinematic character study, muted coastal color palette, observational documentary intimacy, natural sound design of fog and water, Roger Deakins lighting aesthetic."