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A review by marissalikestoread
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
5.0
Fun fact: the setting for Dr. Sheila's office is the room in which I used to teach Sunday school. The film crew painted the walls and brought in some nice vintage furniture. The only set piece that was native to the space is a little wooden chair (we later replaced those chairs after a boy tipped over in one and had to get his head stapled).
So that's why I watched the movie, which is excellent but scary as hell (for a parent). A very nice man and his sweet wife raise a daughter very nicely and sweetly... and then she turns out to be a terrorist.
The end of the movie is very vague, so I turned to the book to get some answers.
The book is even vaguer. But it is more satisfying in its unresolved bleakness.
The best parts of the movie are lifted verbatim from the book. Where the book gets more complex (with more characters, who do a wider range of things), it is vastly superior to the movie.
Coincidentally a couple nights after I watched American Pastoral, a woman on SVU got attached in the hotel I stayed in the last time I was in New York. My daughter was excited to see Obi Wan-Kenobi (Ewen McGregor) sitting in our old Sunday school room; that was nowhere near as cool as watching Olivia Benson conducting an investigation in my hotel room!
So that's why I watched the movie, which is excellent but scary as hell (for a parent). A very nice man and his sweet wife raise a daughter very nicely and sweetly... and then she turns out to be a terrorist.
The end of the movie is very vague, so I turned to the book to get some answers.
The book is even vaguer. But it is more satisfying in its unresolved bleakness.
The best parts of the movie are lifted verbatim from the book. Where the book gets more complex (with more characters, who do a wider range of things), it is vastly superior to the movie.
Coincidentally a couple nights after I watched American Pastoral, a woman on SVU got attached in the hotel I stayed in the last time I was in New York. My daughter was excited to see Obi Wan-Kenobi (Ewen McGregor) sitting in our old Sunday school room; that was nowhere near as cool as watching Olivia Benson conducting an investigation in my hotel room!