Still, Nyholm weaves into this new story other, long-accepted hazards of lighthouse-keeping. He’s already suffered two big whacks to the head when the sailors turn up looking for their gold and is obviously seriously injured. James’s emotional collapse can’t simply be caused by guilt at what they’ve done, though it includes a retreat into religiosity. Throughout all of this, I wasn’t sure whether the deaths change them or whether they can no longer hide the men they always were. “It’s been a hell of a week” he deadpans later, with sociopathic understatement. Donald becomes more accepting of his own deeds and less accepting of the weakest link now it’s no longer him. But when the bodies start to pile up, it’s James who’s in danger of losing his mind, staring-eyed but not seeing anything apart from what he’s done.
It’s literally life or death yet no one tries to scramble down to help him until they have the rope.ĭonald manages to kill the man, though he’s devastated at what he’s done. It’s a stunning moment (literally) and leads to an extraordinary scene, almost comical in some ways, with James and Thomas calling down to Donald to “hold on there” while his attacker tries to kill him. He’s winched down to check it out, and as he’s tying the rope to the wooden chest, the dead sailor turns out to be anything but – attacking Donald from behind. But likely explanations aren’t very interesting, one reason why I doubt many of us really want famous historical mysteries to be solved (though how great if it turned out to be aliens). No one knows what happened to them, though the most likely explanation is that they were swept away in a storm. Three lighthouse men disappeared from their posts, leaving only an upturned chair and a set of oilskins. The Vanishing (formerly Keepers, and as a lover of film title puns how I wish they’d kept it) is inspired by the Flannan Isle mystery of 1900. It occasionally jars, but mostly I found the changes in tone darkly elegant. This find is the catalyst for a brutally violent thriller that turns into a psychological drama, with a surprising (and unexpectedly sad) ending.
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It’s Thomas who comes up with a vaguely workable plan when they discover the chest, a rowing boat and a dead man in a gully, the morning after a storm: say nothing to anyone, and wait for a full year before spending anything. Since they set off for their stint on the island, Donald has been an outsider: gently mocked for not knowing what no one’s told him yet about the job, but given no responsibility. Thomas has lost his family and he’s nearly done after 25 years’ lighthouse-keeping. They’re friends, though even James defers to Thomas in all matters. After the first calamity James makes more broth, methodically chopping vegetables. He has a wife and two children that he loves he also loves the lighthouse machinery and getting it to work, and takes pride in the chores to keep everything going, from cleaning the light itself to making broth. James at first seems as solidly straightforward as it’s possible to be.
Watch my 1 minute video review of The Vanishing He’s one of those disruptive characters who creates unease simply by being. It also serves to highlight the separateness of James and Thomas’s fellow lighthouse keeper, the much younger Donald (Connor Swindells), who from the off I wouldn’t want to spend six hours with, let alone a six-week stint in an isolated lighthouse. It’s hard to work out who is who as they brawl, and it’s as if these ordinary Scottish men are starting to turn into lesser versions of their attackers, now death and greed have intruded.
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