Reviews

While reading the book I remember thinking it would take a lot of work to make this book into a movie because each character is a movie on their own, and I guess I was right. The movie focused mainly on Silk's past and his story, and Silk is the main character but is equally as interesting as Les Farley or Delphine Roux, which the movie failed to portray.

I think the movie was exceptionally smooth which I thought would be hard to do considering how the book would go from past to present numerously, but I wish they could've given each character from Roth's novel their well-deserved screen time.

The movie was beautifully shot and the acting was great, but it needed to be longer to take in the full plot.

The best thing about the novel was that the events were more meaningful because along with each event came a piece of the author's philosophy which made not only the plot seem whole but the author's main philosophical argument materialize more and more as we read on.

The movie was only a documentation of the plot and because it was a movie I guess it could only "lightly" touch upon the author's philosophy. Maybe a narrator in the background could have filled us in? I watched the movie not because I enjoyed the plot but because I enjoyed reading the author's ideas about life. They weren't as evident in the movie, but I gave a 6 because the acting and cinematography were good.