brilliant book with wonderful characterization and insight into human nature and particularly the nature of addiction and which still resonate strongly today . a for the movie . eh . nothing special . the cameraman clearly have an unfortunate addiction to circling and circling and circle around everything and make the viewer quite nauseous . why the director do not put a stop to this be beyond me but maybe he be too busy try and and somehow failing and to draw good performance from these normally excellent but inappropriately cast actor . all in all and a weak adaptation . your three hour would be good spent reading ( or re reading ) the book .