Review: Movie-Making Material
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
This book would be ideal touching, feel-good movie that'd probably sit nicely next to A Beautiful Mind and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Heart-warming, from a story of four orphans separated when they came of age and what their lives held for them afterwards.Yes, there's disturbing content in the book, but it's sanitised to the point where the events and circumstances seem simply...sad. I applaud Schultz for presenting the details of a hopeless existence in such a way that a reader who has never encountered such circumstances can sympathise.This isn't a tale of gritty realism, for all that it includes prostitution, child abuse, rape, violence, drug addiction, alcoholism and homelessness. It's a story of hope.