Isabel is meant to still be a child. What tristan did was horrific!

Some people here who advocate creepy age gaps are so in denial. TRISTAN had love for susannah. He did not even want to raise his children with isabel. He met lisbeth as a child and then married her when she was still developing.
isabel was nothing but sex. They had 2 kids and that is it.
The actress playing her is the same generation as brad is so this is just more hollywood conditioning that advocates for huge age gaps.

Nature is about two people the same age range getting together and staying together. Older men and younger women have been happening since Roman times. Not the beginning of time and still there were more same aged couples.

BUT grown men married kids. KIDS. Developing CHILDREN. It was encouraged by society and boys were indoctrinated to think it was OK. It was NEVER about love.

Sad how people cannot see the true love between susannah and tristan. Not raising his own kids with Isabel proved it. Don't worry people. It often happened a lot. Pocahontas was the same age as lisbeth and in REALITY she was not happy. The men "seemed" to be. But in this story it is very obvious tristan and susannah were made for each other. It's a different version of romeo and juliet..

Also, I also believe this movie could have been bigger than titanic if they'd cut the child marriage. Just made him look like a pig. Unconditional love for samuel? But can't stay in love with others for long? The native theme just became cheesy after too. The uncreative writers could have cut her out and made another little situation. The first half and last scenes were amazing.

They showed how happy he was when they forgot bootleggers were awful. They didn't show it for what it was.
And the sitting at Susannah's grave too. Could still have stayed a tragedy!
It seems Tristan wanted to spite Susannah by marrying and having kids AND stealing her idea of naming his son Samuel. She wanted to do that. Then left his kids.
And Susannah acted like she was happy with Alfred. Both lived a facade until the end.

In the book Isabel is 16. No love at all and that's a fact. She was throwing herself at Tristan LOL and was just a baby maker.
This had a lot of potential. The music made it better than it was.
The cinematography , Montana , main cast and music were lovely.