The brilliant, deep psychological novel was reduced to a melodrama. What exactly the film writers were thinking? That the audience is mentally and emotionally handicapped? Or they themselves didn't understand anything from the novel? Or was it just easier to take the novel's title and characters names, add a bunch of cliches and put together a "Shine"-like "intellectual" melodrama? Judging by the number of positive responses here they succeeded. There is only one problem: the film has nothing to do with the novel. Indeed, how would they make a commercially successful movie about a fat unattractive man who marries a dull woman who doesn't understand him? Yeah, let's turn the loser into a winner, even after the death, substitute the dull wife for an understanding fiancée, throw in an antagonist, add costumes, remove thoughts and we have an "amazing, definitely worth seeing" movie. Who cares about being faithful to Nabokov -- he's dead.
Either the film writers are brain-dead or they think that the audience is. Yes, people seem to like pseudo-intellectual films based on the novels they never read. But exploiting this weakness is a shame!
Either the film writers are brain-dead or they think that the audience is. Yes, people seem to like pseudo-intellectual films based on the novels they never read. But exploiting this weakness is a shame!