Lorcan Finnegan’s unsettling psychological thriller, The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage, is a film about a man who strongly believed that all his life’s troubles would be solved if he could buy his old family property at Luna Bay, where he’d spent his childhood days. While the objective was simple, the journey turned out to be complicated. As a young boy, he remembered the blissful surfing days when he could spend hours at the beach not worrying about any obligations. He wanted his son to experience the same freedom and joy, so he decided to surprise him, and he brought the young man to Luna Bay. It was supposed to be a father-and-son bonding time, but his plan was interrupted when the local surfers stopped them from entering the beach. Even though it was a public area, a group called the ‘Bay Boys’ had taken control of the beach,...