There’s a later scene in which her sister runs away from a man who wants to kill her that has tremendous energy as well. It’s too bad, because the opening section of the movie has tremendous momentum, particularly in two scenes, one where the main character races across her back yard to take clandestine pictures of a neighbor girl, another in which she commandeers her parents’ cherry-red Mustang to driver her brother, who has swallowed a twig and has an obstructed airway, to the hospital. Some of the images we see over and over again are lovely, but they’re limpid, the movie takes a lot of time. As my friend and regular movie-going buddy Alex Remington pointed out, after the murder is committed, a large part of the movie happens in slow-motion and repeated takes. But I think Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation has a couple of significant flaws.First, while the movie strips down the book quite a bit, both in terms of plot and characterization, it still manages to feel slow. It may be nostalgia from enjoying the book much more than I expected, and as a result, feeling more protective of the property than I intended. But I’m sure it’s fairly abundantly clear from the title of this post that I didn’t.
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