The Light Between the Oceans

Release Date: September 2, 2016

Starring: Michael Fassbender as Tom Sherbourne
Alicia Vikander as Isabel Graysmark
Rachel Weisz as Hannah Roennfeldt
Florence Clery as Lucy-Grace


Directed by: Derek Cianfrance

Written by: Derek Cianfrance based off the novel by M.L. Stedman

Tom is a hero from the Great War who has decided he has dealt with enough death and too many people long enough. After carful consideration he chooses to take a six month job working on a lighthouse alone on an island. The city that he goes to before he makes his way to the island has a beautiful girl named Isabel living there. After months of letter being sent back and forth they decide to marry. Shortly after, Tom is given the light house position under a three year contract and Isabel moves on the island with Tom to start their lives together. After a few years, and two miscarriages, Isabel's light of life is starting to fade. She is having a very hard time dealing with the loss of her children, and begins to feel as if she has failed. That is until one day a row boat comes washing up on shore with a dead man, and a very much alive baby girl, on bored. After about a year they go home to visit and Tom learns that there is a mother that lost her baby and husband out at sea. He has to come to terms with the fact that the child is not their. He is torn by doing what is right for the mother and what is right for his wife.

I think that this movie was something very special. It's a very original and not a cookie cutter film as all.

I would have to say that my favorite thing about this film is the title. The reason being is the title is symbolic but once you understand what it means you see the symbolism in every person through the whole film. The story is called "The Light Between the Oceans" because the island that the Lighthouse is on is call Janus Rock. It's named after the god Janus, which also inspired the name of January. The god Janus has two faces, one is always looking forward and the other is always looking back. Janus Rock sits between two oceans. There is always to was of seeing this and the lighthouse is there to help direct you in which way to go. Once you got there you see there are two sides in every aspect of this film and different people, at different times, play this light that helps guide others through the two oceans.

I though that that alone was perfect way to make this film fascinating. Like I said it's a very special, one of a kind film.