Taking advantage of the fresh memory of just reading the original book and taking some notes while watching the movie, here is the difference between the two.
▶The plot has not been changed significantly, and it must be filmed in the order in which Alice's condition gradually deteriorated. It's just that the director will combine a few small clips and delete some specific descriptions of Alice. One of the major changes is the mobile phone.
The mobile phone plays a more important role in this play, because Alice sets herself a "suicide question", and she writes a few common-sense questions in the mobile phone memo, such as "How many children do I have?" To judge whether she has completely "lost", if she can't answer, then she will do something to herself... something she has preset.
In the play, Alice has no violation and has to use an iphone
, but in the novel, the mobile phone the author mentioned many times is BLACK BERRY.
I think it is reasonable for the director to use Apple. In addition to the better visual enjoyment of the audience, the director also uses this scrabble game to describe Alice's gradually deteriorating condition.
But maybe this is an embedded advertisement for an APP game, who knows?
▶Although the movie is more intuitive in expressing the emotional changes of the characters, it also misses a lot of Alice's inner monologue. Most of the novels look at the people around them from Alice's perspective, so the director can't narrate a character with Alzheimer's disease, right?
Also, there are a lot of things that are really hard to articulate in a cinematic lens.
Not long after the opening of the film, did you see Alice's desperate eyes and the blurred scene behind her? This is a scene where Alice suddenly appears during a jog. For a few minutes, all the buildings are blurred, and Alice turns around three times by herself.
Audiences who haven't read the original thought that the heroine was dizzy and had a cerebral infarction, but no, it means that Alice is lost. Well, I just want to say a lot or make it clearer in words.
But there are also benefits to movies...for example,
At the end of the movie, Alice accidentally clicked on the "suicide instruction video" she recorded for herself two years ago (according to the timeline of the novel). Comparing the past and present, you can see how serious this disease is to human beings' spiritual torment. Those wrinkles and white hair that appeared overnight, such a pale face and a blank expression. This is of course the visual enjoyment that the film should at least provide the audience.
Without further ado, thanks for the hard work of the makeup team.
In other parts, there is not much to say about the plot adapted by the director in order to shorten the time. You should watch the original version first and then watch the movie!
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