quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I'm totally looking forward to this, but just found out that German cinemas will only show it in May 2010. FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I'll probably DL it, but I really prefer watching good movies in the cinema. Might also buy the book, anyone read it? |
The book is heavy. Not a book for the beach. Incredibly quick though - I finished in one sitting. Kind of draws you in with its intensity, and definitely emotionally impacting for some time afterward.
I haven't seen the movie, and am not that interested to be honest because the book is so introspective that I can't imagine how a film would be faithful and keep any sort of visual attention. Very little dialogue in the book, and only one (very) brief flashback. The emotional weight pins on the internalized feelings of the father, and it's strictly only his perspective that is portrayed at all times.
I've heard a few different interpretations of the ending from friends, but I thought it was ultimately uplifting - the only real positive takeaway from an otherwise cold and weighty book.
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