I just got done watching it, and it fucking freaked me out. I love that book, and that certainly did a good job with it. Something about children murdering children in black and white, and all the kids have that look the boy on the cover of U2's War has. Fuck.
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McParadigm wrote:
I just got done watching it, and it fucking freaked me out. I love that book, and that certainly did a good job with it. Something about children murdering children in black and white, and all the kids have that look the boy on the cover of U2's War has. Fuck.
yeah, it's much better than the newer one. Great book, probably the first book that i really enjoyed that i had to read for class. It's been a great ride since then.
excellent movie. might even qualify as a film. the hardest part for me is i had a student who looks just like piggy. it's hard, because i wanted to call him piggy. i once told him not to talk unless he had the conch, but he didn't get it because he was only in 10th grade. next year though . . .
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inglishteecher wrote:
excellent movie. might even qualify as a film. the hardest part for me is i had a student who looks just like piggy. it's hard, because i wanted to call him piggy. i once told him not to talk unless he had the conch, but he didn't get it because he was only in 10th grade. next year though . . .
i teach 7th grade, and the 8th graders get to read that novel... instead i'm stuck with the giver
but i did get to teach it when i taught high school
I read the book in the 3rd grade. It was my first "favorite" book, and the first time a teacher let me read something on my level. That spark of fascination expanded quickly into a massive appreciation of literature that was a little smarter than The Hardy Boys.
one of the best books ever written, i do believe. literary, interesting, and accessible.
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Longtime fan of the book, I saw the movie for the first time the other day on TCM. I didn't really know what to think. The script kind of seemed to drag on, it could have been alot shorter of a movie, or they could have fit more of the book in for the outrageous runtime it had. Pretty neat seeing one of my favorite stories play out in black and white though.
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