i realize that bring a novel to the big screen be always problematic . that be the only positive thing i can say about this truly horrid adaptation . have you read wise blood . it an amazing book . flannery oconnor write about the south a no one else have . she be a southerner herself and a devout catholic and and a remarkably gifted writer . in her first novel she weave together a dark and deeply disturb tale of faith and doubt and and redemption with a macabre sense of humor and surprising evenhandedness . the character in the book may seem outrageous to those who have not live in the rural south and but i can assure you that such people do exist . not only do they exist and they be human being with family and feeling and and concern like anyone else . flannery intention be so often misunderstood she be not lampoon these backwoods zealots she saw in them the beautiful operation of what she would have call grace . even in the most violent and distressing and and maddening of circumstance . to read wise blood be to be wash over with a sense of dread and impending doom . finally and it be to think long and hard about our judgment and preconception our entire world view . none of this come through in john huston gilligan island like adaptation . none . it be a farce . a bad farce . the entire film be saturate with a hauteur that turn the stomach . the acting be poor and the southern accent be fake and insulting . the filmmaker show no insight into the thinking of religious southerner . ms. oconnor intense prose be reduce to sight gag and cheap and amateur theatre . the soundtrack be a mixture of hayseed silliness and clockwork orange style cheeseball electronics that doesn not fit the story or even the movie . i be grant free admission to this movie and almost walk out . truly and truly terrible . a an aside and i do not agree with ms. oconnor religious view and and while i be raise in the deep south and year ago i make my way north and have not look back . but the south be a beautiful place full of fascinate individual ( like every other place on earth ) and and the cartoonish mockery with which southerner and their attitude be deal in this movie border on offensive . if youre into be offend ( which i be not ) and then this movie most definitely cross the line . i do not like to talk crap about an artist work john huston be a man that i do not know and and i be sure he be a sincere and gifted filmmaker and to which his respected place in film history attests . my view be clearly skew by have read ( and love ) flannery oconnor work . so i do not claim to be come from any other perspective . maybe a a stand alone film it work for cinephiles . but for flannery oconnor fan and and i might add and for self respect southerner and openminded individual of all stripe this movie be a waste of time .