Whether to watch a movie or read a book first, this is a problem

Fabian 2022-01-17 08:02:51

When I got the book The Doomsday House in the library, it was new and I didn't check the background. I thought it was a new book. After reading it, I liked it very much, and I was shocked and moved. What surprised me more was that it was originally written in 1989, and it was made into a movie in 2004. When you read a book, the text will form an image and appear in your mind, and I saw the movie before the hero and heroine actually turned into a Hollywood star.
As I said in my brief review, I will never be able to understand how I would feel when I saw such a movie before I read the book. I should have given more stars, and this book is too written Shocked me, moved me. But for me, the movie lacks that, but the trivial life described in the text brings me palpitations. When the book saw Claire finally decided to escape and put it into practice, I covered my mouth in panic, and my heart was filled with the panic and sadness of huge abandonment, and I felt that I was abandoned. How I like this family of three.
When I was reading, Bobby had a silly and big image in my mind, and Jonathan was the smarter of the two. In the movie, Bobby looks more spiritual when he was a teenager, and Jonathan may be interpreted as a bit wooden because of the relationship between braces and acting. Of course Jonathan became fascinating as an adult, and Colin Farrell played Bobby a bit silly.
I can't understand that the director has removed the consideration of Jonathan's sex partner Eric. Eric is also considered a character throughout the book, and he has split and combined with Jonathan. Although for Jonathan, Eric may be just a physical sustenance, and his spiritual sustenance has been entrusted to Bobby (if it can be understood in this way), Eric is not a dispensable character. And I think that Claire's final departure is related to Eric moving in and living with the three after discovering that he was suffering from AIDS. It's not that Claire is worried about Eric's illness, but that Eric has brought death to the house, causing Claire to start thinking about what Rebecca will face when she has her own consciousness. In the book, it was written that Rebecca was babbling, "But gradually, when I was lying in bed with her, I figured it out. She is forming her own consciousness... With the camera ready to shoot, click snapped a picture of her favorite toy, snapped a picture of Jonathan coming to hug her in the morning. She would take these pictures forever. If she died when Eric died and Jonathan fell ill again Have you gained complete consciousness? If her earliest memories are all about the frustration and disappearance of the person she loves most, what effect will it have on her?" After this period, Claire began to prepare to escape, my heart He also jumped up bang bang.

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A Home at the End of the World quotes

  • Bobby Morrow, 1982: [to Jonathan] You're essential, man.

  • Bobby Morrow: I get up and walk around in the dark sometimes. Does that weird you out?

    Jonathan Glover: No... I don't know.

    Bobby Morrow: When the place is all dark, when you and Clare have gone to sleep, and I'm awake, it's like being alive and being dead at the same time, y'know? It's this sorta halfway thing, where people who are alive are dreaming and people who are dead are... where they are. And I'm here... in the dark and the quiet.