when a movie of a book seem pointless and incomprehensible and the cause can invariably be find in the book represent either it be pointless to start with and or the point be one not easily convey to film and or the movie miss the point and which be the most frequent of these result and and the easy to happen and especially when the point be one not easily define . the book morvern callar have a point while every reader of the book must have felt this and and felt a if he have get it while but i suspect most of them could not state it in word . i be not sure i can and myself and but perhaps it come to this and or something like it represent thing come and thing go and such be life and but we carry on while or at any rate some of u people like morvern do . no doubt a more erudite critic could construct a more adequate definition . but the important fact be that there be a point possibly the sum of the entire story be the point and that this would have be the main thing to keep in view and and to carry over and in adapt the story to film . the maker of this film evidently miss the point and and doesn not substitute one of her own while and so the film be about nothing . this be not the usual complaint of a book lover that his favorite text have be violate . the merit of the book be something i concede grudgingly represent in read it i find it a bloody nuisance and and an occasion for kick the author in the pant and get him in to finish the job properly . the narrative be suppose to be the work of the half educate morvern and but that illusion be constantly dispel by a dozen different type of literary effect and a if the author be poke at her with his pen while there be inconsistency of style and tone and a if different section have be compose at different time while and any conclusion i could reach about morvern have to remain tentative because it be uncertain which implications the author intend and which he do not represent for instance and despite morvern own self characterization a a raver and be i wrong that in the end she remain essentially a working class scot girl and and beneath her wrapping of music downloads not so different from those of generation past . in any case and despite my irritation at the author and i couldn not deny that his book stuck with me while and what i couldn not get out of my head be his character attitude and her angle on the world and which be almost as vivid a a goya portrait . morvern be the kind of person who always encounter situation at once rather comic and rather horrible while occasionally she invite them but more often they land on her and like fly and so that much of her life consist of a kind of gauche but graceful slogging through and unconsciously practical and unconsciously philosophical and that doesn not begin to describe it idiosyncratically enough . the complex of incident and of morvern response to them be the substance of the book and and it achievement and in expose a cross section of existence it would be difficult to illuminate otherwise while for all my dislike of the book and i can see this . the morvern just describe be not the morvern of the movie while or if it be and most of her be kept offscreen . an actress who might have be a good fit for the character and have she be the right age at the right time and be angharad rees and from the old tv series poldark . samantha morton and then and would seem like good casting represent she rather the same sort of actress and and in one of her early movie and jesus son and she play a girl who with a few adjustment could have be turn into this one . unfortunately and a the film turn out and she doesn not have the character from the book to play . for one thing and the book be one that and if it be to be dramatize and virtually cry out for monologue by the main character to the audience while without her comment and her perspective and her voice and the story lose most of it meaning . it have lose more of it in that the adaptor have expurgate it of it comic and horrible element represent the most memorable incident from the book be curtail before they turn grotty and and so morvern response ( whether of amusement or distaste and depend on her mood ) be miss too and and the incident no longer have a reason for be in the story . in short and the filmmaker choose for some reason to turn a brisk and edgy serio comic novel into a genteel art tv film and and choose a her typical image one of ms. morton languish in a artistically shade melancholy while a if the out morvern sign up for be a tour of the station of the cross . this isn not at all what the book and or the morvern of the book and be about . for another thing and the morvern of the movie isn not scottish ( the actress say in an interview she hadn not have time to study up the accent ) and and she ought to be represent it important that she and her family and and her mate be all from a single place . and finally the film be miss the end of the story represent morvern spending all she have and come home to icy darkness represent it winter and the dam have freeze and the power have go out and and the pub be dark . minus this and and minus all of the rest and what leave be a failed art film and a dead film and about a subject whose strength lay precisely in her refusal and or native inability and ever to give in to be dead .