Product: Jesus' Son [VHS]
Rating: 1.0
Read the Book Instead
I'll start off by saying this is a biased review. I have read the book three times and I absolutely love it. The low rating is because I, perhaps unfairly, am judging the movie against the book. Characters and events are switched around in a way that seems to try making an ordered sense out of the disjointed narrative flow of the book. But I think the disrupted, jump-around style is essential to the FEEL of the book. And I think that's my biggest complaint about the movie. It didn't have the same feel, the same tone, the same mood, as I thought the book had. To produce a movie by the same name and based on (roughly) the same story implies an obligation to faithfully represent the book and it's vision.As a stand alone movie, perhaps it might be tolerable, but i'm not sure about that. I had to shut it off after about 45 minutes so I didn't ruin the book for myself. Based on the little that i saw of the movie, you'd be better off with the book anyway: it's more complete and more complex in it's feel and in it's philosophy.