The Light Between Oceans
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Plot synopsis:
The movie opens in 1918 with Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) traveling by boat to a remote village off the coast of Western Australia. He has accepted the temporary position of lighthouse keeper on the island of Janus Rock. Janus Rock is a small island linked to the mainland, and only visited by boat four times a year by the shopkeeper, Harry, who brings grocery orders, supplies and mail. Because of Janus Rock's remote location and isolation, it was a difficult post to fill before Tom took it over. The permanent lighthouse keeper will return to his job in six months. Tom is a World War I veteran just back from Europe and is looking forward to the solitude the job has to offer.He is taken to the island by Harry and Bluey. Later we see him at the lighthouse, doing chores and he seems at peace with the solace. Three months into his post, he comes to town for lunch for a break and sees a young woman (Alicia Vikander) throwing bread to the gulls. They exchange a meaningful and extended glance.He goes to the home of one of the townsfolk has dinner. When the homes owner, Mr. Graysmark introduces Tom to his daughter Isabel, Tom is very pleased to see its the woman he saw earlier feeding the gulls. During dinner he finds out the two reasons the previous lighthouse keeper, Ferguson is on leave. Ferguson informed the authorities that his wife was signaling passing boats which is not allowed. Someone asked well what was the second reason? Mr. Graysmark says Mrs. Ferguson died two years previously. The impression is that he had a breakdown alone on the island and is in psychiatric care but is expected to make a full recovery. Tom returns to his post at the lighthouse.A few months later Tom is called into the office of his employer. He is advised the permanent lighthouse keeper leapt to his death from the cliffs. He is then offered a three year position as permanent lighthouse keeper. He accepts.Later, with flowers in hand, he visits Isabel,s home. Her mother invites him to lunch. He advised the family he will be in town for a few days. When Mrs. asks what he plans to do, Isabel pipes in and says, He has invited me on a picnic tomorrow. Tom looks surprised but pleased.While on their picnic, Isabel peppers Tom with questions but he is very reserved. He doesn't like to talk about the past or the future but she seems enamored with him regardless. Toms mother is deceased and he and his father did not have a good relationship. But his fathers sternness did serve to help him in the war. Isabel tells Tom she has lost both pf her brothers in the war. She tells Tom there is a name for someone who loses a spouse but not a name for a parent who loses a child.When Isabel asks to visit the lighthouse, Tom advises her its against the Commonwealths laws as only the lighthouse keeper and his wife are allowed one on the island. Isabel says, well marry me. Tom says "you'd have to have rocks in your head to want to marry me". She asks him to write her and he says of course he will.Over the course of the next few months, the two correspond and fall in love. When Tom proposes via one of these letters, Isabel accepts. Tom promises to always take care of Isabel and to love her forever.The two have a beautiful wedding and return to the lighthouse. They are very happy and it is very apparent, they are very much in love. Isabel once told Tom she plays the piano and she is very happy to see a piano in her new home. But Tom tells her it doesn't work and is sorely out of tune.Isabel soon becomes pregnant. Their days are spent deciding on names and Isabel making baby clothes. The couple is blissfully happy.One night during a very turbulent storm, Tom has to spend the night in the lighthouse to make sure it remains lit. Isabel asks to join him, but he tells her its safer in the house. She is unhappy but Tom kisses her and advises her she will be much safer at home. While doing the dishes, Isabel begins to bleed and experience labor pains. Knowing its too soon, she tries to climb the lighthouse tower to Tom but collapses. Due to the thunder and lightning, Tom does not hear her screams.The next morning Tom finds her unconscious and carries her back to their home. The baby is stillborn and the two bury the baby with a cross marker inscribed with the date and always remembered. Tom tells Isabel they can try again. Tom begs Isabel to let him send for a doctor but she refuses. A few days later, she sees a boat approaching and a man carrying what appears to be a medical satchel. She flies into a rage at Tom for betraying her wishes and runs off.Later, she sees one of the men on the porch and angrily storms into the house. She then sees it wasn't a doctor but a man Tom hired to tune the piano. They kiss and embrace.Late.r we see Isabel is pregnant again. Over the course of the next few months, her pregnancy advances. One day while playing the piano, she begins to experience bleeding and pain. She screams its too early and pleads with Tom to make it stop. Through his tears, he repeatedly pleads, Tell me what to do! Later there are two crosses signifying this baby died as well. Isabel is extremely despondent and depressed, spending her days lying in the grass next to the burial plots of her babies.One day while washing the lighthouse windows, Tom sees a rowboat in the distance. At the same time, Isabel hears a baby crying. Using a scope, Tom sees a body in the boat, he screams for Isabel, and they both begin running to the water. They discover a dead man and a baby in the boat.Isabel takes the baby into the house and feeds and changes her. When Tom comes in, he advises her he must send a message to town. She begs him to wait until morning. This greatly concerns him because it is against protocol be he agrees.The next day as he leaves to send a message, Isabel runs after him begging him to let her keep the baby. She pleads that no one needs to know. They can bury the body and raise the baby as their own. Tom says no. She tells him it is a victimless crime. He tells her they can report it and ask to adopt the baby. She convinces him no one will allow a child to be adopted by a couple basically alone on an island with no hospitals or schools. She pleads with Tom. With both in tears, they embrace.Tom buries the body and sends the boat out to see. While pushing the boat out to see Tom notices a silver rattle in the shape of an owl. He places it in his pocket. He then pulls up the last cross from the grave of their second child and sends a message to town informing the baby came early, Isabel is fine and no need for medical attention.A few months later Bluey and Harry visit with provisions. They congratulate the happy couple and remark on how beautiful the baby is. Bluey notices the rattle while playing with the baby, Lucy.Lucy grows and flourishes on the island and is a very happy baby. The family visits town and Lucy meets her grandparents. The child is very pleasant and eats with a great flourish to the families delight. Family and friends travel to the vicar for Lucy's christening and while waiting for the vicar, Tom hears a woman singing. He sees a woman (Rachel Weisz) in black leaving flowers on a grave, curious he walks to the marker after she leaves and reads it. It is the grave of her husband and child.Later, Tom asks the captain about the woman. She is Hannah, the daughter of one of the wealthiest families on the island. She married a German baker (Frank Roennfeldt) and the citizens of the town were displeased due to many losing family and friends in the war. When she tells her father Septimus Potts (Bryan Brown) that she is to marry him, he disowns her. She marries him anyway and the two were very happy. They had a daughter, Grace. One day after being harassed by the townsmen, Frank grabs Grace and jumps into a boat. The two are lost at sea and never found. This occurred around the same time Tom and Isabel found the baby. Tom is devastated. He tells Isabel they must confess what they did. She tells him its too late and the baby is hers. She is her mother. Tom is visibly torn.Before returning to the lighthouse, Tom writes a letter to the mother telling her the baby is fine but her husband died. He tells her she is loved. Meanwhile, Hannah, her father and her sister Gwen ask the police to search for the baby but he doesn't appear concerned.Three years past. Lucy is a happy, beautiful child who is worshipped by Tom and Isabel.On the 40th anniversary of the lighthouse, the family visits town for a ceremony. The Potts family has commissioned an exact replica of the lighthouse for display. Tom turns and sees Lucy's mother. When asked to say a few words, he is too shaken to make much sense and blames it on the surprise of being asked to speak.Later at the reception, Isabel meets Hannah and is devastated when she realizes who she is. She runs to the ladies room and is sick. Tom again begs her to let him tell the authorities but she refuses him. Later that night Hannah hears her mailbox and inside finds a package containing the owl rattle. Isabel's father suggests the lighthouse is too isolated for the mother and child and suggests Tom leave the two in town for a while. The three are then seen on the boat returning to the lighthouse. Isabel is downcast.The Potts take the rattle to the police and fliers are placed around town with a reward for information regarding the rattle. We see Bluey reading the flyer.A few days later a boat is headed to the island. Tom tells Isabel he is sorry, but he had to do the right thing but he will tell authorities it was all his doing. Isabel furiously attacks Tom. The police take Lucy and Tom is thrown in jail. During his interrogation Tom is accused of killing Frank but he insists Frank was already dead. Isabel is questioned and asked if Tom killed Frank. The audience does not see her answer the question. Lucy is inconsolable with her mother. She begs for Isabel and Tom and the lighthouse.Isabel is released from jail and is seen in bed crying, her mother pleading with her to eat.One day on a visit to town, she sees Lucy (Grace) in the store with her mother and aunt. Lucy runs to Isabel and her mother repeatedly asks Isabel to give her the child. She takes the child from Isabel as Lucy screams. Isabel breaks down.Captain delivers a letter from Tom to Isabel and tells her that Tom needs her. She replies so does my baby. She doesn't read the letter but places it in a drawer.Hannah visits Tom in jail. She asks why they did it. He tells her Isabel is innocent. It was all him.We later find out Tom is to be tried for murder. Apparently Isabel told the police he killed Frank.One day Hannah calls Lucy (Grace) for dinner. When she doesn't answer, she searches the house but cant find her. The police visit Isabel's home; she is there, but no Grace. Hannah prays that if Grace is found, she will do what is best for the child. A search of the town begins. Grace is later found asleep near the water. She was trying to find the lighthouse.Hannah remembers a conversation with Frank when he tells her it is easier to forget a wrong done against you than hold on to it forever. The next day, she visits Isabel and tells her that the right thing may be for Grace to be with Isabel. She tells Isabel that once she testifies against Tom, she will return the child to her.Isabel's mother tells her that Tom loves her and while Grace also has people who love and care for her, Tom only has Isabel. Isabel finally reads the letter and realizes how much Tom loves her. She runs to the jail, but Tom is already headed to the boat to be moved for his trial. She races to the dock and runs to Tom. He tries to hurry the boat but she confesses that Frank was already dead and it was all her fault. She was the reason Tom kept the baby.Later, the constable is speaking with Hannah and he tells her Frank was already dead. She asks what will happen to Tom and Isabel, he tells her jail. She asks what if I speak on their behalf. He asks why and she repeats what Frank said about forgiveness. He tells her Tom and Isabel would probably only spend a few months in jail.Later, Grace and her grandfather are riding a horse and he is telling her about her mothers childhood. When he calls her Grace, she says my name is Lucy. He says "well what if I call you Lucy Grace?" She says that is fine. They find Hannah lying in the grass and she and Lucy Grace bond while making daisy chains. It is clear Lucy Grace is growing comfortable with her mother.The next scene indicates it is now 1950. In a hospital bed we see Isabel asking Tom if God will forgive her. He says he already has but she just needs to forgive herself. Later, Tom is sitting in his kitchen when he hears a car approaching. A woman gets out with a baby and introduces herself as Lucy Grace. Tom gives her a letter from Isabel. The letter tells her how she stayed away from her as agreed but hopes she would someday find them. She tells Lucy Grace how much she was loved. The letter informs Lucy Grace that if shes reading it Isabel has died but Lucy Grace finally came to find them.Lucy Grace places the baby in Toms arms. As the baby coos, he tells the baby that Isabel would have just loved him. Lucy Grace asks Tom can she and baby Christopher visit him again, he says he would love for them to. They embrace and Tom closes his eyes and cries.The End

Review: Both Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander put in two very strong performances, along with Rachel Weisz in a supporting role, and the film completely captures the period after the First World War. To me it seemed very much in the mode of 'The Piano' and equally as strong in terms of its dramatic dynamics and conflicts.
Watch and if I am wrong please tell me why.Michael Fassbender just takes emotion to a very realistic place and portrays a man with fear , regrets , love.
This film tells the story of a married couple living in a remote lighthouse, who finds a drifting boat in the sea with a healthy baby and a dead man inside.
Based on M.L. Stedman's best-selling novel, starring Michael  Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown, and Jack  Thompson, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance, THE LIGHT BETWEEN  OCEANS is essentially about a lighthouse keeper and his wife living off  the coast of Western Australia and they raise a baby they rescue from  an adrift rowboat.
In THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, I think Alicia Vikander  plays that with such strong conviction and ferocity, so much so that  even though you know her character is doing something wrong, a part of  you wants her to get away with this act, because Vikander has made you  feel sorrowful for what her character has gone through.
And Michael  Fassbender plays the lighthouse keeper husband with a conscience, the  film does deal with fate, love, moral dilemmas, and how far you're  willing to go to get your dreams realized after having previously seen  them crushed a few times, what secrets would you keep to make those  dreams realized and so Fassbender's moral compass keeps bugging him.
If you've seen director Derek Cianfrance's previous films, "Blue  Valentine" and "The Place Beyond The Pines," you'd know that Cianfrance  is not one to shy away from couples' confrontations, it's as if he  wants his actors to really unleash their strongest resentment possible,  so when conflict arises between Vikander's character and Fassbender's  character or between Vikander and Rachel Weisz's character, it's so  real and ugly that you wouldn't want to get in the middle of it  otherwise they might come at you as well.
A newly-married couple, Tom and Isabel (Alicia Vikander), living on a remote lighthouse island off the west coast of Australia in the second decade of the twentieth century, find a baby washed ashore in a rowboat.
The tension comes not from storms at sea but the ramifications of their keeping the child a secret.Notwithstanding the absurd good fortune that they find a baby after her two miscarriages, the story becomes increasingly complex with intersecting themes of passionate love and doing the right thing.
The first film I watched from director Derek Cianfrance was Blue Valentine, which impressed me very much because it was able to transform a trite domestic drama into a devastating exploration of the factors contributing to the breaking off of a love between a very human and realistic couple.
And now, his most recent film, The Light Between Oceans, also challenges expectations by taking a typical "prestige" movie, and bringing it an emotional deepness which is rarely found in similar films aiming at attracting nominations and critical acclaim; you know...
The story of The Light Between Oceans is superficially simple and not very original; however, the gradual accumulation of complications and moral dilemmas adds an intellectual and almost philosophical aspect which complements the tormented romance of the lonely man who found love late, only to see it in danger when certain circumstances interfere in his happiness.
For the path of true motherhood runs not smoothly for poor Isabel, and a baby in a drifting boat spells both joy and despair for the couple as the story unwinds.(I'll stop my synopsis there, since I think the trailer - and other reviews I've read - give too much away).While Fassbender again demonstrates what a mesmerising actor he is, the acting kudos in this one really goes again to Vikander, who pulls out all the stops in a role that demands fragility, naivety, resentment, anger and despair across its course.
After a slow start, director Derek Cianfrance ("The Place Beyond the Pines") ladles on the melodrama interminably, and over a two hour running time the word overwrought comes to mind.The script (also by Cianfrance, from the novel by M.L.Stedman) could have been tightened up, particularly in the first reel, and the audience given a bit more time to reflect and absorb in the second half.The film is also curiously 'place-less'.
"The Light Between Oceans" had all the right ingredients to be a serious Oscar contender, a great director, a great cast, beautiful cinematography, a beautiful score, and a gripping story, but it ends up falling way, way short of its end goal, it's unrelenting in its efforts to get an emotional reaction out of its audience, and in doing so the movie loses some of its humanity and relatedness, the film also suffers from its 2 hour run time, with about 20-25 minutes cut from its run time, it could have at the very least been a solid period drama about such a daunting subject matter, but instead it's just a very big disappointment..
When you go back and watch another film by director Derek Cianfrance, The Place Beyond the Pines, you see how effective the decision is to tell the story over a very long period of time, and jump around, focusing on certain parts of these people's lives.
Derek Cianfrance, who directed the poignant Blue Valentine and the riveting The Place Beyond the Pines, brought probably the best out of Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz in quite some time, even if the film pulls at your heart strings a few too many times.Amidst the beautiful landscaping shots of sunsets, beaches, and oceanic views, Cianfrance crafts the story of a couple who desperately want a child but can't have one, extremely well.
But in the brief periods when they are contented it's sunny and the sea is placid.Meanwhile the musical score – and it needs one – plays incessantly, not that it is interesting either, it uses similar stereotypical gestures, its moves with same overt declarative impulse.In all this emotion the story is nearly infantile it in its simplicity, it is one straightforward drama: it contains no other plots, no other elements which combine and deliver layers to beguile its audience.If this writing, if it can be called that, is compared with its template, the classic novel, the big difference and it's a very big, is that those books had vitality and well developed characters.
When you watch a romantic film, you expect it to achieve skilled levels of drama, acting, entertaining and relatable story to keep the viewer engaged, but still have a realistic romantic plot.
Cianfrance has performed remarkably well in his other two efforts ("Blue Valentine" and "The Place Beyond the Pines") however, this is probably his weakest overall outing yet."The Light Between Oceans" tells the story of Tom and Isabel, who live on a remote island.
Michael Fassbender as the stoic and tortured Tom, has the actor showcasing another effortless and engaging presence that proves he's got plenty more to offer the realm of cinema.Co-star Alicia Vikander, recently just crowned for her riveting turn in Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" earlier this year, is as capable as ever in portraying a difficult and unlikable character.
3 stars for the cast: The cast is simply great and led by strong performance of Michael Fassbender (one of the best male actor of his age) as an introvert yet very sensitive and upright WWI veteran, followed by Alicia Vikander bringing all range of the femine emotions on the screen from a naive local beauty up to an emotionally destroyed mother (Academy Award worthy) and finally strong performance delivered by Rachel Weisz as loving and forgiving mother.
There's too much heavy-handed symbolism in the first half (from a hellish storm hitting the lighthouse area as a womb ruptures) to rocks being held by Vikander's character as if it's also her uterus (which unintentionally made me giggle thinking of a line from Raising Arizona, which in a way this is most alike but done in full serious mode), and the last several minutes kind of rushes things along to a finale that is a wee bit more Nicholas Sparks than the movie should be.
The Light Between Oceans gains some momentum as it goes along, but Arkapow's cinematography and Cianfrance's choices of the sea and sky and birds and other objects to photograph threatens to overwhelm the already This-Goes-to-11-Volume main cast.All the same Fassbender, Vikander and Weisz get their eyes spectacularly wet and pained, and the existential plight of this married couple caught in the old Woody Allen maxum, "our lives consist of how we choose to distort it" (and the widowed mother made a seemingly permanent victim of this), who only want the best for this little girl (albeit in criminal terms of course) is felt deeply enough to make it a unique piece of filmmaking.
It is there, he falls in love with Isabel, played by Alicia Vikander,  They coo, woo, and marry and life seems complete...until ugly things  happen to beautiful people like them.
The casting is very good but the chemistry and overloaded slow paced subplot hamper the build up of the character's development.Performance wise Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander has done well for their role but Rachel Weisz has done an outstanding job for the role of Hannah Roennfeldt.
Tom, Husband (Michael Fassbender:Steve Jobs) and wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander: Danish girl) lead a quiet hopeful life on a small island.
And the same Tom when he sees Hannah (Rachel Weisz:too many good movies) a lady , sad and unhappy because she lost her husband and baby on the same day , reveals to the mother that her child is alive and well in a very secretive manner.
At least unlike the dour, navel-gazing Place Beyond the Pines (2012), The Light Between Oceans sees Cianfrance fit to festoon his pensive yet rudimentary directing sights on a remarkably old-fashioned melodrama; the kind that involves a lot of sobbing, stares into the middle-distance and people wearing old-timey clothing.The Light Between Oceans takes place largely on an isolated island off the coast of Australia where WWI veteran Tom Sherbourne (Fassbender), has taken a job as a lighthouse keeper.
They sell the period detail, they sell the merits of their solitude, they sell the rapture of their blossoming love; heck they almost sell the story, which by the second act, works against them like a gale against a wafting paddle boat.The film takes its time, but eventually ebbs into a lively littoral zone of story possibilities with the arrival of Lucy (Clery).
As one would expect, the couple find out a little more than they'd like about Lucy's past and the rest of the movie builds itself on a series of moral choices that risk destroying their reputations, their marriage and their love.Cianfrance certainly has a knack for ferreting out stories about the cross-generational ripple effect of one or two bad decisions.
Some of them carry around this sadness for a long time and for others in the movie this emptiness and loss of joy, or any positive emotions at all will come later in the film due to the various situations and events that occur in these character's lives throughout the film.
The story's tagline – 'Love demands everything' - is very well chosen.The movie opens in 1918 with Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) traveling by boat to a remote village off the coast of Western Australia.
The manner in which the decision is made as to who should keep the now four-year-old Lucy/Grace (Florence Clery) involves concepts of birth mother versus adopted mother, guilt in deciding how love plays in the role of justice, and any number of other issues so beautifully managed by the story and the script and the actors.The well-assembled supporting cast includes Thomas Unger as the critical decisive character of Bluey, Jane Menelaus and Garry McDonald as the parents of Hannah (whose frightened German husband Frank (Leon Ford) attempted to escape with their baby when prejudice against Germans broke out in their town), and others.
Outstanding, Fassbender's, Vikander's and Weisz's performances, not to mention the rest of the crew, either you have it or not, this is chemistry from the finest, filmed and surrounded in an incredible landscape, they choose to place the lighthouse in the middle of this story like a symbol of hope, love, despair, loneliness and courage, what would we do or choose in such a situation, a lie remains a lie as little it is, even for the sake of the one you love, what a tragedy, one bad decision changed the life of all concerned and there seemed to be no hope, but fortunately forgiveness and unconditional love triumphed in the end, superb!.
What woman would not want a husband like Tom, played so beautifully by Michael Fassbender, or be willing to accompany him to an isolated lighthouse station for years on end?PLOT SPOILER AHEAD:Everything in this gentle slow paced film was perfect except for a couple of wrong notes beginning with the casting of Rachel Wiesz as Hannah, who at 46 was too old for the part.
You can see some tough moral issues on the making, made worse by the fact that the baby's mother is alive and none too happy about loosing her family at sea.In the course of a few years the situation reaches boiling point, with Tom - also suffering from survivor's guilt - deciding to find a solution.The plot develops a bit too slowly and the final part seems contrived to squeeze some more tears from the audience.
Since Isabel's second miscarriage has been kept secret from her family and friends, they decide to keep the little girl they name Lucy and raise her as their own.Though Tom knows that the decision cannot be justified either legally or morally, he lets his heart rule, basing his choice on what it will mean for his wife's happiness.
It is a choice that is fraught with unknown pitfalls that soon become real when a chance encounter with a woman weeping at an empty grave mourning her husband and daughter leads to an ever spiraling chain of events that capture the torment of a man caught between his love for his family and the despair of a distraught woman (Rachel Weisz, "Youth") whom he has the power to help.The Light Between Oceans tells a compelling story that has enough intrinsic power to touch us deeply.
Rather than probing the soulfulness of its characters in a way that is subtle and nuanced, however, the film is often overwrought and fails to involve us on a level that feels authentic, short circuiting its emotional force with an intrusive musical score that signals how we are supposed to think and feel.The moments that do evoke real emotions come from simple situations told without straining for effect: the reading of passionate letters between Tom and Isabel, a woman crying at an empty grave, and a little girl now known as Lucy Grace, (Florence Clery) joyously riding with her grandfather (Bryan Brown, "Gods of Egypt").
Set against a visually stunning lighthouse that stands between two raging oceans, the film's title and place is a metaphor for an irresolvable ethical dilemma and the power of self- sacrificing love.We meet Tom (Michael Fassbender) as an upright and emotionally scarred veteran of World War !
There's a definite whiff of TV movie, issue of the week stuff about this drama in which lighthouse keeping couple Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander adopt a baby who appears on their isolated, rocky outcrop home in an adrift rowboat.That it does not go too far into that territory is thanks to some superb acting all round.There is some stunning photography throughout and director Derek Cianfrance creates a spellbinding atmosphere...even if the film does dawdle with some too extended establishing scenes (you'll find yourself thinking 'get on with it man').Difficult to pin point which is the better performance, but special mention must definitely go to the children playing Lucy/Grace - incredible stuff from little ones.4/5 stars..
In this case, the decisions are made by the various story members but you might want to ask yourself what you'd do in the same situation.The two leads a superb - Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander - and the scenery is wonderful and atmospheric.Not a movie I'd watch again and you have to like a particular type of movie to enjoy it but give it a whirl and see what you think..
The rest , wheel you have to see it and i assure you you won't be sorry of taking the time to watch this movie.Like i said, i prefer sci-fi, horror , thriller, so i started watching this movie without many expectations, but after a while the story just keeps you glued to the screen.Good acting, beautiful island, and great story, i found myself really emotional on the end of this movie, love at the best, even you're doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place beyond the Pines), The Light between the Oceans is a truly moving and poignant film that tells the tale of two extraordinary love stories, brought together by fate and tragedy.
Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender), a lighthouse keeper and his wife Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander) found and decided to keep and raise a newborn baby washed ashore on their lighthouse island.
"No one will know she's not ours." Tom Sherbourne (Fassbender) and Isabel Graysmark (Vikander) are a married couple living on the coast of the ocean.
Derek Cianfrance's The Light Between Oceans (2016) had so much potential that was sadly wasted on forced sentimentality.Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander) find a dead man and a baby in a drifted boat.