Amazing!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2012)

I'm sure I was like so many who had read the book. Frankly we were skeptical and didn't want to go. We were more than skeptical; we were cynics, doubters and we were almost afraid to go to see the film fearing it might adulterate our love for the book.
How could you turn this amazing book, this amazing yet highly personal and internal journey into a visual feast? Who could film some of the parts of the book that were almost dreamlike and yet intensely realistic and violent? How to convey the utter sadness and yet the exhilarating triumph of this individual journey? What would happen to the writer's unique use of language, his pacing in the book, his quirky scene setting? How would this all fit in?
Wow Ang Lee obviously loved the book just as much as we all did. I guess when he read the book he could picture it all visually as a visual storyteller supreme. Certainly the best movie of the year. A "tour de force" in film making. You wanted to stand at the end and give the film a standing ovation.