I'm not going to nitpick and be like "The book took place in Edinburgh Glasgow not London 
," but it's hard to judge the movie without comparing it to the source. While I don't think the novel's theme were very profound or new the film paint-by-numbers and the story very rushed. This is despite a 2¼ hour running time that felt flabby in the middle. And despite the film being about Bella's growth as a person it omits the book's epilogue. This is the only part from Bella's perspective and it changes how you view the entire story 
This is also probably the least funny Yorgos Lanthimos film I've seen. I did get one good laugh and involved a character calling someone r-slurred. 
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i love watching movie adaptations although 95% of them are worse. sometimes adaptations are better when there's something fundamentally changed about them; eg Annihilation's story made more immediately digestible, Romeo + Juliet transformed into modern psychedelia, The Hunger Games being made in a visual format so you don't have to read the author's dogshit prose. these are the kind of adaptations worth making
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if you liked Romeo+Juliet that much Baz Luhrman also made Moulin Rouge. unfortunately i hate Moulin Rouge even tho i generally like musicals; you might like it
. i did also enjoy his short-lived tv show The Get Down, which is about funk and the invention of rap in NYC in the 70s. he also adapted The Great Gatsby, which i haven't watched.
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I think a lot about Peter Greenaway and how he says most movies are just book illustrations. Even if you managed to do justice to a book's story there is very rarely anything done to justify doing it in a visual medium
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Brainlets think that tee vee is THE medium, so by adapting a novel you're actually elevating it
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