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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a decent movie, but I did not get the ending.[/quote]I’m seeing a lot of reviews like this. I think the ending is probably one of those things that needed more dialogue/outright explaining in the movie version because not everyone has read the book.[/quote]
I often find narration in films to be lazy, but this movie may have benefitted from having Donald Sutherland retelling the tale. That scene in the book is Snow doing mental gymnastics. His though process goes from "If I want to truly clean up the evidence, I'll have to get rid of Lucy Gray..." to "Hey, is she hiding from me? Why would she be afraid I'd hurt her?" in a single paragraph. [/quote]
Good lord that's chilling. I may buy the book. Not so interested in the movie, but from that paragraph alone I recognize that the author knows how these people's minds work.[/quote]There’s also a whole lot of possessiveness is how he thinks about her in the book. The power differential is on full display there. Not at all romantic when you’re essentially reading the thoughts of an inherently abusive person. [/quote]
The book is a bit long winded. It took me months to read, because it could get tedious and repetitive, and I'd put it down with no interest of picking it up again. (It was a huge contrast from the original trilogy, which I breezed through all three books in a few days.) It makes sense for the character, though, because Snow fixates and obsessives over every little thing. It's a good book at its core, but I really have to slog through it.[/quote]

Agreed. I am glad I read it before I saw the movie though - the inner monologue and some of the stuff that happened at the academy gave additional context that \i think was helpful.[/quote]

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