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Shock; sit down before you read this
TOPIC: Shock; sit down before you read this
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Re:Shock; sit down before you read this 12 Years, 10 Months ago
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Even Ishiguru has said that the actors who played the characters, particularly Tommy, are unlike how he imagined them to be.
I think the reason why the novel's effect is so profound, is that in the space of the day or two it takes to read it, you're somehow taken back to the innocent yearning of childhood and youth, and then reminded how the realities of adulthoood, and the way that the world works, not only made you 'let it go', but made you forget that you ever had it. The effect on many people is almost painfully sad.
That he can do this in a novel of under 300 pages is a work of genius. A film lasting a couple of hours couldn't hope to have the same effect. But if you've read the novel already, and you can identify the actors with the characters, as surprisingly you have been able to do, then it sounds like it can be a powerful fim.
I want to read the novel one more time before I see the movie.
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