since start to read the book this movie be base on and i be have mixed feeling about the filmed result . i learn some time ago to see the movie adaptation of a book before i read the book and because i find that if i read the book first i be inevitably disappoint in the film . this would undoubtedly have be true here and whereas in the case of atonement and which be probably the best filmed adaptation of a book i have ever see and it would probably not have matter . i be try to figure out what the cause be and and i suspect that i have to point my finger squarely at michael cunningham . much a i respect him for the hour ( which i have not read but which i saw and be awe by ) i can not escape the feeling that he not so much adapt susan minton book a he do take a few of the character and the basic premise and write his own movie out of it . it not that i dislike the movie . i actually love the movie and which be why and since i start read the novel and i be feel disturbed about the whole thing . i feel disloyal to ms. minton for enjoy the movie which be so thooughly a departure from her work . read it and i can understand why she have such a struggle adapt it . unlike what one reviewer of the movie say and it not so much that some novel do not deserve to be a movie while it more like some book just can not make the transition . ms. minton novel operate on a level so personal and intimate to her central character and so internally and that it seem impossible to me to place it in a physical realm . even though a lot of the book be memory of real event and it be memory and and so fragmented and ethereal a to be and i feel and not filmable . i think that ms. minton work be a real work of literature and but can not make the transition to film and which in no way detract from it value . i can not yet report that even and the film and do not represent evening and the novel and in any more than the most superficial way and since i be only halfway through and but the original would have to make a tremendous leap to resemble the film that follow at this point . i guess i be write this because i feel that if youre go to adapt a novel and adapt it and but do not make it something else that it not . i be not sure if michael cunningham have do anything wholly original and but from what i can see so far the thing he have do be all base on someone else work . we would not have the hour if virginia woolf have not write mrs. dalloway and and we would not have evening and in it distressed form and if susan minton have not have so much trouble do what probably should not have be attempt in the first place . but it too much to say that it would be good if ms. minton have leave well enough alone and because evening and the film and be a satisfactory and beautiful work of it own . thus my confusion and mixed feeling and sense of disloyalty and and ultimate conclusion that and in this case and the novel can not be the film and vice versa and and my eventual gratitude to both writer for do what they do and so that we have both work a they be .