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Title: YOU GOTTA READ BOOK AND SEE MOVIE
Review: The book is great. I read it about a year after seeing the movie. The movie was stirring and haunting, suffused with a feeling of loss and sadness. There was a lot of emphasis on the attorney's character, played so well by Ian Holm. Atom Egoyan is a terrific director (see EXOTICA! ).The book is the same story, only different. I felt completely different reading it, while acknowledging that it is telling the same story. The same, and yet the tone is different, the details emphasized are different. And the character of the attorney has the same experiences as the one in the movie, but feels like a different person to me.I recommend both very highly. How often can you read a book and see a movie, then say, "I loved the book, and I loved the movie too, even though it changed alot."
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