queequeg-16
No words can explain how touched I was when I watched it.. This movie made me pout, smile, tense up, cry, and smile again..made of various kind of love all shown and felt throughout it made me warm inside :)
dothraqi
The movie starts with little emotion and as the movie progressive it takes you to realm of emotions, it makes you feel the story and makes it very hard not to cry. The movie was brilliant and beautiful worth every tear I must say. This movie takes up a space in your heart and even after it finishes it stays there. A must watch indeed.
beebeedoo
While I'm a fan of Michael Fassbender, I was too caught up in the fact the two leads were dating and now married, so I couldn't get emotional, even though the story was pretty sad. I understand he loved her so much to take the fall after they were found out, but after reading the girl from her arms, it just made it worse for her, AND being without her husband. The movie was beautifully shot, I love the sights and sounds of the ocean's crashing waves. It would've made more sense if the Rachel Weisz character knew that Isabel miscarried twice, although she was very sympathetic to not sending them both to jail for a long time.
James
Australian author ML Stedman wrote the book turned into a quite-impressive film by Derek Cianfrance. There are two villains here - a proximate one and an ultimate one. The proximate villain is the miscarriage and how it can affect a young woman (here Isabel Graysmark, played strikingly well by Alicia Vikander). For this reason, I think it is fair to say that this NOT a film for those recently stung by the impact of miscarriage in real life, be they male or female. The ultimate villain is of course the First World War, and its impact on all the world, but notably on Australia itself, where young men unscathed either physically or mentally are a somewhat rare commodity, hence Isabels's interest in Tom, a focus of some chemistry unsurprising perhaps given actor Michael Fassbender's (now) real-life status as Vikander's husband.Even Tom has his issues, hence his desire to flee from civilisation and be a lighthouse keeper on an amazingly remote island which meets the criteria set by the film title in being located where the Southern and Indian Oceans meet (in real life the quite spectacular filming is of a light in New Zealand).When Isabel joins Tom, it looks like their existence might be idyllic - until the above problems put paid to that. But then a chance (entirely dependent on the First World War and its consequences) comes along and they seize it, primarily out of Isabel's yearnings, and it gets them into a great deal of trouble.To say more would spoil what is quite a gripping and occasionally disturbing tale. But suffice to say that it's rather unusual, nicely filmed and thought-provoking in respect of its morality, and in the light of what one might do for love. It also has a quite complex and demanding ending, which I personally found satisfying.
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