So, when watching a movie everyone visually sees the same thing. But when you are reading a book, everyone's imagination runs wild. I am sure there are no two people that visually saw everything the exact same way. Everyone has their own vision of what a person or a couple look like, what a mansion should appear as, how country side comes across as. However, Joe Wright, director, did a fantastic job matching the novel to set. For the most part, with only a handful of exceptions, Wright produced a movie so similar to the novel that it was so easy to love the movie. Often times, movies will be extremely disappointing to those who have read the novel - if there is one. I was super happy with the outcome of the movie, and thought that Wright did an amazing job matching imagination to big screen. The only thing that troubled me about watching the movie was, how on Earth did those that did not read the novel follow the book? When scenes flashed back to how one character saw something, and another person saw something, it took a moment for me to realize it was a change in focus. For example, the fountain scene is repeated from two different perspectives and they repeat when Briony is staring out the window overlooking Cecilia and Robbie. Overall, Wright and the actors and actresses did extremely well, and it is definitely one of my personal favourite movies now.
To catch a preview of the much anticipated movie of 2007, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPZDi723Eo
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