1. In the original book, DEE's vision appeared the moment she answered: she said kill her not me. And so the whole book began. As for what her answer was in reality, the author dealt with it very vaguely (without explaining it), and I personally tend to understand the film director's understanding that she should sacrifice herself.

2. Dee was shot in the head, not the heart. Adult dees have always had headaches, no wonder.

3. The definition of maureen and dianna in the novel is very vague. The author deliberately refers to them as one of them and the other, which seems to confuse the two and integrate them into one.

4. Maureen once claimed that something happened to him that made him feel a kind of divine touch of being born again (and then devoutly religious), but we don't know what happened; coincidentally, DEE also had the same description during the rescue process when he was shot. , she felt that she was dying but at the same time seemed to be born again. (From time to time we think that DEE and MAUREEN are the same person, this is not reflected in the movie), after all, the adult DEE is more like MAUREEN in behavior.

5. In the end, the biggest difference between the movie and the novel is the ending. The ending of the book is very obscure. We don't know who died, and it seems to imply that both of them are dead. The last chapter describes the person who saw her off from DEE's perspective. Only MAUREEN did not appear. There are two explanations:
one, both are dead, she died where MAUREEN was.
Second, MAUREEN is alive, because the people and things that appear in the imaginary world of DEE are contrary to reality, (such as adult D's mother has died, her cat TIMMY is dead, the biology teacher is still alive, the professor is her husband, EMMA was born ); In this way, MAUREEN has never appeared, indicating that she is still alive.
Third, M and DEE are actually the same person, and the author seems to imply this possibility. It is mentioned more than once in the book that DEE can't imagine what it would be like if they worlds apart, which makes the ending even more tragic. . .

I personally appreciate the interpretation of the film, and let DEE sacrifice himself in exchange for M. In general, the film successfully conveys the essence of the novel, but it does not copy the original plot, but adds the director's own understanding and thoughts. She reminds us to look hard at life, to notice its beauty and cruelty, even as it flashes before us and disappears.

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