YES. And I think this is why I got the sense that this one would work much more as a movie; because it is such a difficult process to leave things unverbalized in a book - because, y'know, book - and there's kind of a limit, but in a movie with the right actors and the right production - which this had - there's a lot more freedom to get a point across without saying it. Especially since in the movie it doesn't feel like he actually articulates the fact that he's wrong, even to himself, until the end, and it would take an incredibly deft hand to manage that in a book (especially first-person).
And I didn't realize that other characters got to narrate in the book. I'm kind of torn about the general idea, to be honest, because it does sound like it would kind of splinter the focus and dull the impact - especially if some of it's from people who have no idea - so taking them out of the main story sounds like it would be write, but the same part of my brain that likes fanfic is going "Wendy gets to talk? Eric gets to talk? His sister gets to talk? GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEWANT.
It also sounds like they didn't explore whether a dysfunctional but supportive group of friends is better than isolation in a fairly normal family, which is something that looks like it could be set up pretty easily in there.
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YES. And I think this is why I got the sense that this one would work much more as a movie; because it is such a difficult process to leave things unverbalized in a book - because, y'know, book - and there's kind of a limit, but in a movie with the right actors and the right production - which this had - there's a lot more freedom to get a point across without saying it. Especially since in the movie it doesn't feel like he actually articulates the fact that he's wrong, even to himself, until the end, and it would take an incredibly deft hand to manage that in a book (especially first-person).
And I didn't realize that other characters got to narrate in the book. I'm kind of torn about the general idea, to be honest, because it does sound like it would kind of splinter the focus and dull the impact - especially if some of it's from people who have no idea - so taking them out of the main story sounds like it would be write, but the same part of my brain that likes fanfic is going "Wendy gets to talk? Eric gets to talk? His sister gets to talk? GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEWANT.
It also sounds like they didn't explore whether a dysfunctional but supportive group of friends is better than isolation in a fairly normal family, which is something that looks like it could be set up pretty easily in there.