made no sense

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2010)

This movie sucked. The book was absolutely amazing, but the movie made absolutely no sense if you have not read the book. Reading the book prior to watching the movie, the movie felt like a butchery, all the thematic ideas were cut to make a pretty poorly constructed movie. Again, the plot of the movie made no sense without the prior knowledge of what was supposed to happen based on the book. Many characters were either cut or sidelined in an effort to make Taber relevant, even though it served absolutely no purpose to have him in the movie. Without giving any information, there seemed to be many important events and lines from the book that didn't make it into the movie, probably to make it a little more acceptable to viewers. This is disgraceful to the purpose of the book, which challenged the way society categorized and neutered the patients, so the director neutered the book.