There are certain books about how writers are terrible people -- in the way we are, in the way that something awful will happen and we will think "So that's how it feels, I can use that!" That's what MacEwan was writing about, and he did make it work.
I wish they wouldn't make films of books.
I'm going to have to read this book. I thought, oddly enough, that it might work if it were about the girl herself -- but that's very hard to capture in a meaningful way in the film. On the other hand, when speaking to people who had read the book, the movie was very much what they felt the book was -- meaning they were just as angry at end of the novel as I was at the end of the movie, and for similar reasons.
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Date: 2010-07-21 05:53 am (UTC)I wish they wouldn't make films of books.
I'm going to have to read this book. I thought, oddly enough, that it might work if it were about the girl herself -- but that's very hard to capture in a meaningful way in the film. On the other hand, when speaking to people who had read the book, the movie was very much what they felt the book was -- meaning they were just as angry at end of the novel as I was at the end of the movie, and for similar reasons.