![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Sherbourne ( Michael Fassbender, giving a very measured, confident performance) is a World War I veteran battling Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder before his condition really had a name. Buried beneath this melodrama-but shining through nearly enough to justify a look-one can see the film that could have been, as anchored by great performances and emotional truth. Narrative beats and themes are hit repeatedly, just to make sure you don’t miss an opportunity to feel something. It's a film with greatness within that’s been lost due to varying degrees of distrust ridiculously tight close-ups in soft focus feel like they’re pushing you to cry instead of allowing emotion to come organically. Derek Cianfrance can’t find this trust in “The Light Between Oceans," an adaptation of M.L. He also has to trust the viewer to bring their own interpretations and emotions to the story, meeting the characters halfway along the spectrum of the human experience. The director has to trust his actors to convey the complexity of the human experience without smothering their performances in manipulative filmmaking devices. ![]()
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