don't watch it after reading the book!!

Rating: 2/10 (31 March 2002)

i'm sorry that i can't give you a..waddyacallit...unspoiled(dunno if that's right, you get the picture), perhaps i would have cried because the movie is so wonderful, if i hadn't read the (incredibly wonderful) book shortly before. this way, i cried because it was such a wicked attempt at unravelling the wonderful book. the book gives you an innocent view on a small southern city, from a childish perspective(scout's). the movie shows a small southern town, it shows scout, and all the stuff, but it somehow fails to deliver all the rest. the feelings i got reading the book(twice in 3 weeks, dammit!) didn't connect. watch something else. (perhaps, if i was a girl it could have saved me the experience, i watched it with some girls-they had read the book, too- and they loved it because they were infatuated by gregory peck)