- Having just finished reading the graphic novel a little over a week ago I decided to give the movie a try; the movie and the comic share some similarities but in many ways those similarities seem superficial
- there are a number of scenes that are in the comic that are also in the movie but quite often the tone isn't exactly the same
- to a large degree the book is about Enid growing up and her friendship with Rachel; Rachel is in the movie but does not play as important a role as she did in the book; instead, Enid develops a relationship with Seymour, an older man played by Steve Buscemi, who only appeared briefly in the book; in many ways this relationship felt artificial and forced and changed the story completely; it took me a while to figure out what exactly was going on
- I'm not sure that a faithful adaptation of the book would have worked as a movie but I'm definitely not satisfied with the movie that was made
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