Forgiveness

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2006)

I was sad to see that a key running theme in the book was removed from the film. In the film, Sophie's flashback to her grandfather's sex ritual is shown so near the end that it is almost pointless.
In the film, Sophie's flashback to her walking in on her grandfather's sexual ritual is revealed nearer the start of the book. This sets a running theme in motion. The more Sophie learns, the less repulsive she finds her grandfather and she builds up respect for (according to this film) Real (more sexual) Christianity and Paganism. In the book she starts off despising her grandfather slightly, but as she uncovers his clues and learns more about the attitudes behind the ritual, she realises that it was really only her own Constantine-Christianity prejudice that made her feel that way and slowly grew to forgive him.
Maybe this theme did exist in another way somewhere in the film and I just missed it. Anybody? ~Iain