The novel "Great Expectations" was the first English Classic novel I have read. It has a very significant personal meaning to me. With great expectations, I watched this modernized version, and was utterly disillusioned.
The adaptation was shabby, the plot inconceivable, and the speech extremely cheesy and gushing. It lost every good thing possible carried by the original story. The setting in Florida and the 1960s is inconsistent with historical fact; and the ending of the movie was too out there and hence lost the quintessential beauty. All in all, it is just another failed Hollywood attempt to re-create a profound literature work that is beyond Americans' ability to comprehend.
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