![]() ![]() Then one day, a dead man with a baby floats up in a boat, and Isabel really wants the baby, so they decide not to report it and raise the kid as their own, which seems okay, for a few years. Isabel suffers two miscarriages and sinks into a depression. The limited pros of lighthouse life include (1) lots of great chunky knitwear and (2) having sex as loudly as they like. Initially, things between Tom and Isabel are good they get to know each other and fall in love and don’t mind spending literally all their time together. This turns out to be a very bad decision. Tom, who is only supposed to be on the lighthouse for six months, decides to keep the job for three years. Unfortunately, his goal of solitude is interrupted when he falls in love with and marries vivacious local woman Isabel (real girlfriend Alicia Vikander, whom he started dating while on set), and she decides to move there with him. Tom, we learn, is a solitary fellow who doesn’t like talking about his past, which is exactly the type of guy who gravitates to the punishing business of lighthouse-keeping. So, here’s what happens in this film: Fassbender plays Tom Sherbourne, an English World War I vet who goes to work as a lighthouse keeper in western Australia, because he has seen too much shit and wants some peace and quiet. But my overwhelming emotion while watching the film was frustration, spurred by one overriding conviction: If a guy you’ve just met invites you to move to a lighthouse with him - yes, even if he looks like Michael Fassbender - don’t do it. ![]() Mostly sadness, along with intermittent arousal, and, at some points, hunger (the movie is 132 minutes, which is too long). ![]() I recently went to see Derek Cianfrance’s new romantic drama, The Light Between Oceans, and, as the director intended, I felt feelings. Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender in The Light Between Oceans. ![]()
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