After learning more about the author’s life and what happens in the novel, there’s some questionable choices in the film that I would prefer they didn’t include. It’s strange that they made situations more uncomfortable than what was written in a 1950 novel. What I had dismissed as inevitable plot points that didn’t age well, was actually poor adaptation choices.
Regardless, the movie still had that gripping charm and gentle melancholic style that encapsulates earnest human yearning really well. I’d go back and forth between questioning why I enjoyed the movie the first time around so much, just to be reminded by a scene not long after about how captivating the movie can be.
After learning more about the author’s life and what happens in the novel, there’s some questionable choices in the film that I would prefer they didn’t include. It’s strange that they made situations more uncomfortable than what was written in a 1950 novel. What I had dismissed as inevitable plot points that didn’t age well, was actually poor adaptation choices.
Regardless, the movie still had that gripping charm and gentle melancholic style that encapsulates earnest human yearning really well. I’d go back and forth between questioning why I enjoyed the movie the first time around so much, just to be reminded by a scene not long after about how captivating the movie can be.
