I didn't like it.. but thats just me

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This doesn't set out to draw the characters towards each other with any specific plot point or revelatory scene to introduce their interest in each other. It's careful, nuanced and lingering in its pacing. It suggests - never announces. It therefore comes across as more real than many filmic lightings of fires. Keith is uncomfortable with her at the outset, sensing an instant and dangerous attraction which we know through his subtle moments of needing her presence. She is alone and out of place - clearly not in tune with the daughter, Lauren, and, like Keith, shows slight hints of her interest and curiosity. A gentle awakening that explodes in Keith when she plays the piano the first time and in Sophie when she sees him in concert. She never pursues him nor does he romantically approach her. Instead it just happens. Keith is surrounded by women who don't hear him nor understand his longings. Sophie does and she has a soothing effect on him. A lost man who finds solace in a soul of his ilk. She is much younger and thus has no obligations and her love for him is far more understandable, less dangerous - if not necessarily condonable. With his supposed maturity he is the one who comprehends the dangers - but she has a quality that he cannot resist.

This is where, as a viewer, you have to fall for Felicity Jones's charms - her slight eccentricity and particular, unconventional beauty. If she is somehow off-putting as an actress then the understated magic her character needs to possess for the connection to work is lost. If this quality works for you then the atmosphere is very powerful, tense and imbued with an underlying sense of danger and innocence - almost simultaneously. We are steadily pushed towards the inevitability of their relationship and the equally inevitable destruction of it and possibly his family. There is an innocence in the development of their love - but a danger and inappropriateness in their situation and age difference. The film chooses to let morality win over desire and a hope for something more - perhaps because of the semi-dodginess of their relationship.

I was left feeling sorry for the lovers who had found something that life was unable to allow. Something simple, tender, deserving of exploration but classically forbidden and therefore morally undeserving of the happy ending that could have been. For a while I thought the film wanted to juxtapose the joy that new love can bring with the destruction that leaving old love can cause. Something I would have thought would have been more interesting. The flaws in the script came in their tender chats by the lake which felt very superficial and lacking in the profundity needed for a man to leave so much behind for a young, young woman. And also in the way it shied away from hitting this potentially explosive situation on the head - exposing more, forcing the characters to experience tougher choices. I wanted more of an eruption of everyone's lives once the relationship was consumed - bigger, deeper confrontations.

But as it stands it still managed to create a tender, ever brooding atmosphere - greatly enhanced by strong, nuanced performances from an excellent cast. It felt like much care went into crafting this. It felt very meticulous, detailed and heartfelt.

I think the problem is the guy doesn't look like somebody who would attract the girl that much. Maybe we are just programmed by the industry to buy only certain characters but that's the way it works.

She was looking for a father figure. Her uncle taught her piano. That is how they bonded. She merely replaced him. All of the scenes that brought them together revolved around watching him play his music. It wasn't really about the music, it was about replacing a male paternal figure.

I liked it but, it needed more, I kept waiting for something to happen between them. They didnt even get to sneak around and do sex. Like really lol