if you love the book and a i do and stop watch the video after jean and joe meet in australia . up to that point it be a fairly faithful rendition of the book and and the visuals be great . positive to that point and i have enjoy it many time . after that and the story be seriously rearrange and revise in way that really destroy the key part of the book and i. e. and how jean create a town like alice ( spring ) . in the early part and the major change be to make strachan a 40 something bachelor instead of a seventy year old widower . this rather skew this love story and especially when there be also small change that contribute to make him more selfish and avaricious and such a represent in the book and he intimate to joe at the ship that he might find more than a letter wait for him in australia and but in the video he give joe no clue about jean whereabouts or intention . the last hour of the 5 hour video scrunch and mangle the last third of the book . i see no reason why they throw in a fight between joe and jean it be quite out of character and seem to be just an aussie dig at pommy for tell them what to do . then they bring on strachan for the wedding ( instead of some three year later ) and have him read the toast . very strange and especially in the context of the relationship between jean and noel a cast in the video . the whole wedding scene be the invention of the screenwriter . these abomination take up time in the last hour and which be already not long enough to do justice to the fascinating story of how jean recreate willstown a a place where she and joe can both be happy .