Is it any good?
Looks boring but maybe looks are deceiving.
shareBetter than I expected... not boring at all, moves along nicely...
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It's quite good, actually.
shareIt is not boring at all, I never once felt bored watching it.
shareNot boring, not too bad, not too good
shareI think it's a little over-hyped but I really enjoyed it.
shareIt's well-made, and interesting enough, but slow.
I didn't finish it in one sitting. I think it actually took like three or four. But at the same time I'm glad I watched it.
I was disappointed that, near the end of the movie, the film essentially condoned adultery. I don't get into that at all. But that notwithstanding, it was a fairly good film set in Britain on the bring of WWII.
I also needed a few sittings to finish it. Solid 6/10.
shareIt's well worth a watch, although the last hour when Lily James comes into the film and we get the love triangle it really suffers not cause of her but storyline, also the film seems happily to accept a wife cheating on her husband like she was a hero doesn't sit right with me. But it's a solid 7 star film with it's first hour or so been the film at it's strongest. Fiennes and Mulligan are great though.
shareI made the same point about the story turning an adulteress into a hero . . . for her adultery! WTF?
shareHer husband (who married her under false pretenses) appeared to be the first to stray. He certainly pushed her away. Two wrongs don't make a right, but the film seemed to treat his infidelity with kid gloves. She certainly can't be faulted for wanting a connection that her closeted husband was never going to offer her.
shareThe husband was obviously gay but I didn't get any indication that he had pursued his gayness in such a way that would qualify as infidelity. He said something in the film about "learning to love her," or something along those lines, and I think that's what he was trying to do. I do not think that we are to understand that he was plowing some dude across town.
I understand that marrying such a person would be hard on her. (It makes one wonder why she even did so in the first place.) But if she was not committed to trying to make it work, then she should've at least had the decency to get a divorce before spreading her legs for another dude.
I don't think she had the slightest idea he was gay since most couples of the time were never intimate until their wedding night. During their honeymoon he spent more time with his friend than he did with her. And he spent quite a lot of time alone with him at the lab.
She tried to be intimate with him multiple times, but he could barely stand to look at her. Most anyone in that situation would have questioned everything about their marriage.
And for most people back then divorces were difficult to get and tended to stigmatize women much more than men. So she would have been forced to live a lie while he spent his nights "at the lab."