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Title: Well Done But Poorly Conceived
Review: The movie was well done- the acting and presentation was pretty good. However it managed to completely miss the point of the book. Since when was a man-eating monster just mistreated and misunderstood? Though Grendel was portrayed as a victim, bothe his and his mother's hovels were strewn with piles of bones! Despite his diet of people the king cannot think of a reason that he should have dispatched Grendel's father beyond the coincidence of their paths crossing. Such enormous liberties were taken with the story- to present the hero as the bad guy and the monster as the tragic hero! What a shame to take such a wonderfully crafted work and twist it to show "what it really must have been like." The whole point of fiction is to see things beyond our scope. To edit and reduce this marvelous tale in order to make it match someone's idea of what must have been--that is truly tragic.
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