Review of Enduring Love (2004) by Victoria Clara C — 26 Jul 2008

One of the most beautifully (and originally) made films I've ever seen. The visuals were great, the opening scene was so believable it was creepy, the hand-held camera and the odd shots were amazing. The writing and acting was also very good but I really think it misses the real point of the book which was more focused on science versus religion, logic versus spiritual discussions and Claire's ENDURING LOVE to Joe and their relationship which is not well developed in the film, focusing on the stalking stuff. And they cut several parts of the book that I thought were very important. They changed an extremely important part: Joe does NOT kneel down to "pray" with Jed. That's an important starting point. It seemed like the movie wanted you to think maybe Joe has some ambivilent feelings and might even be attracted to Jed which is a very different take than the book.

But I do think it was well done as far as technic stuff like camera work, soundtrack, visuals, special effects, etc, but does not do justice to a magnificent book.