![]() If you haven’t read the book, you might have hope yet on how Tom and Isabel’s story might play out but it is clear that despair and heartbreak lies ahead. Tom’s love for his wife pushes aside all logic and reason as he agrees to this- burying the dead man and towing the boat back into the sea. ![]() Tom is intent on reporting this discovery but a grieving Isabel convinces him otherwise, saying it isn’t coincidence that a baby is sent their way, stating that they should raise the child as theirs- a decision that obviously has consequences ahead. Weeks supposedly after her second miscarriage and fall into depression again, a rowboat washes up on their shore, carrying a dead man and a crying baby girl in it. Their attempt at having children become an issue after Isabel has two miscarriages and falls into desperate depression in a period of three years. In quick succession, the two marry and Isabel moves from her town to Janus Rock to join her lighthouse keeper husband in romantic isolation. Tom returns to the lighthouse and they begin a correspondence through letters. On a visit to the local harbour town, Tom and Isabel fall in love in what seems like glances across a table and a picnic date that prompts Isabel to ask Tom to take her with him to Janus Rock, Tom replies saying only the lighthouse keeper’s wife is the only other person allowed on Janus Rock. Tom Sherbourne- a World War I veteran who has “seen things” during the war keeps to himself dealing with trauma from the war occasionally staring into space and has an unequivocal sense of silence- takes a temporary job as a lighthouse keeper in some rocky island off the West Australian coast called “Janus Rock” taking to a life of complete solitude, eventually secures the job on a permanent basis. Thomas Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander). The Light Between Oceans follows the story of a couple in the 1920s. The movie is directed by Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine). Set on an isolated island off the coast of West Australia. The Light Between Oceans is based on the 2012 best-selling novel of the same name by Australian author M L Stedman. Cast: Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson.
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