stereosforgeeks wrote:Spandau Belly wrote:By Jose Saramago? I read that years ago, and its sequel 'Seeing'. Both good books.
Yeah we were thinking of reading it as the movie is playing at Cannes currently and will be out theatrically by the end of the year.
For the most part I don't get me knickers in a twist about a book I like getting turned into a movie, I understand that stuff has to be cut and stories are told in different ways in different artforms, but I really don't see this one working.
To me the point of the writing style was make us conscience of labels. None of the characters have names, neither do the streets, there's nothing that gives us any idea of where it's taking place or even when. When you start putting in actors and using locations you're cutting out the major development of the theme in my opinion.
I'm guessing the movie will just end up being like Children Of Men 2: The Childrening.