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SusieBW
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Unbroken movie (spoilers)
I know a lot of you guys read this book and loved it as much as I did. Who else saw the movie?
I just watched it last weekend, and I thought it was garbage. I think it hit the highlights of the story, but there was just so much that wasn't there. Maybe there is just no way to ever possibly do Louie's story justice on film. I found the book to be absolutely riveting, but the movie just didn't do it. I don't think it captured the magnitude of what he experienced effectively. Probably because it didn't include his input as to what was in his head throughout it all the way that the book did. It probably annoyed the hell out of my husband, but I found myself filling in the gaps for him and adding to the story throughout the whole movie. He also wasn't impressed with the movie at all, and he never read the book.
I don't know why I keep letting myself get my hopes up about film adaptations . . .
I just watched it last weekend, and I thought it was garbage. I think it hit the highlights of the story, but there was just so much that wasn't there. Maybe there is just no way to ever possibly do Louie's story justice on film. I found the book to be absolutely riveting, but the movie just didn't do it. I don't think it captured the magnitude of what he experienced effectively. Probably because it didn't include his input as to what was in his head throughout it all the way that the book did. It probably annoyed the hell out of my husband, but I found myself filling in the gaps for him and adding to the story throughout the whole movie. He also wasn't impressed with the movie at all, and he never read the book.
I don't know why I keep letting myself get my hopes up about film adaptations . . .
Re: Unbroken movie (spoilers)
Now, my only experience with Schindler's List is from the movie, but I felt like what made that movie so amazing has that it didn't shy away from the hard parts. I'm sure it was glamorized to an extent and we can't ever really get a good scope of what it was really like, but it felt more honest. I feel like Unbroken skipped over all these parts and these parts were what made Unbroken so phenomenally horrifying and riveting.
I had to do the same thing with J. He hadn't read the book, and I had to fill in SO MUCH to give him any sort of depth on the story.
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
Sugar & Spice