I've always felt very sad while watching the movie. When I read books, I am often frightened by Paul, because he describes the psychology and fears of girls and women too delicately. It is hard to imagine that it was written by a man. This feeling also often occurs when reading his "Eleven Minutes". . I think this book is really well written when it comes to suicide attempts, we usually think that suicide is because of something, it must be because of a major change in life, but veronika is not, in fact the book The veronika looks normal to outsiders, a 24-year-old young woman who has just started a stable job without suffering any disasters or traumas. She doesn't usually look like an extraordinary or abnormal person, but such a person decided to die. , so the drama is here, a young life decides to die. I think it is a pity that as long as the director shoots the book as it is, it will be very good, why should the adaptation be so mediocre. I feel that with the ideas and the level of delicacy I want to express in the book, it can be made into a movie that is comparable to every moment. I really feel that it is a pity, a pity.
1. The process of veronika suicide. The book has been planned for a long time. After taking a lot of medicine, veronika holds a kind of "I have persuaded myself well, I already know the rest of my life, and I am sure that it doesn't make much sense to me", so I decided Suicide; while the movie deals with being careless in everyday life or overdose due to anxiety. These two behaviors are completely different, after all, veronika decides to die is deciding to die, I think the film is too mediocre. Because veronika is an abnormal person, her thoughts are very pessimistic, but you can't say that her thoughts are completely wrong. There are many passages in the book describing ver's views on life, work, and love, some of which she saw by herself. Yes, some were the experiences of others she had heard of, and these were the reasons she found for her own suicide. And the film's handling is too reckless, at best it can only be understood as an overdose of subconscious wanting to die.
2. One of the interesting points in the book is that ver was lying in bed waiting to die after taking the medicine. When he had nothing to do, he flipped through a magazine and found that the author of the above article was making fun of her hometown, Slovenia, where no one knew where it was. Nation, she broods over such a seemingly meaningless thing in the final minutes of her suicide plan, which she had planned for six months.
3. A contrast designed in the book is that Veronika is a very young woman, 24 years old, young, beautiful, should be full of vitality, her life has just begun, and she has not suffered any disasters and traumas, but she is such a person planned suicide.
4. It is a pity that everything before the end of the movie seems to be paving the way for the doctor, and the change of mind brought about by ver’s conversations and contacts with other patients, the director does not think it is important and does not mention it; especially Yes, the conversation between the teacher who came to speak and ver, and after ver felt the change of his own thoughts and his desire for new experiences, all the emotional parts written in these books have been omitted; it should have been these in the movie When it comes to things, ver should speak to teachers and discuss with teachers and patients. In the end, where he feels emotional, the movie only shows ver masturbating to the boy, and everything in the book is not mentioned. So ver's transformation is very inexplicable, just because of desire, he doesn't want to die.
5. The contact and communication between veronika and other patients, the filming is completely different from the book. The film only shows the madness of the patient, and rarely shows the patient's thinking and normal communication, especially after ver was admitted to the hospital. The most Ma Li, a person who has recovered but could not get out of the mental hospital, and according to Ma Li, many patients who have no courage, because they are afraid of the outside world, they stay in the mental hospital with peace of mind. Many people died after Veronika was admitted. I was touched and started to think about my own life, these changing movies did not mention at all.
6. In the book, the doctor deceived veronika that she only had about a week to live. This short period of time put pressure on ver who wanted to die, and made her think from the beginning, "Okay, then I will wait a few more days. death", and later "No, even if I don't live for a few days, I will leave the mental hospital to face life." People are moved by the idea of returning to life, they feel that such a young and beautiful woman, who looks completely different from the atmosphere of a mental hospital, who has just been rescued but is about to die soon, will affect their life and life. Thoughts also had an impact, causing them to start thinking about their own lives. These, all these transformations, the director did not shoot at all, only some slow-motion shots of flowers and landscapes that are not so-called.
What a pity, the director, like most people who only watch the turning point of the climax, only saw the absurd and eye-catching places, suicide, masturbation, the redemption of love, the doctor's strategy, these are the easiest to put on the table. The part I saw, but under this, why did veronika commit suicide, why did she suddenly want to masturbate to Edward, was it love or she suddenly had a desire for love and life, what made veronika who decided to commit suicide finally take it Escape the mental hospital with Edward? These books were written with great effort, and the director skipped them all, so it was made like this: Ma Li suddenly had the courage to be discharged from the hospital, Edward was walking in the corridor, and suddenly he didn't want to play stupid and left, the author's careful explanation Don't mention it, so people who haven't read the book will find it inexplicable, how can it not die just because of love? Only then will I feel that ver entrusts life and death on love and on others. This reason for living is too frivolous compared to death. In the book, every bit of opportunity and change, and finally the yearning for love and the unknown, are all roughly dealt with as the desire to masturbate to a beautiful boy, and then both become love and fly away. It just makes me feel... speechless
When I read this book for the first time, I thought, oh my god, it might look better than Flying Over the Madhouse. It will be on par with every moment. Maybe it would be better if I emphasized the change of thinking. Someone finished filming, and it was filmed like this. I think it's a shame that most of Paul's works don't get the status they deserve.
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