Isa

So I just saw tgf and wow. First of all as someone who read the book it was amazing. I loved seeing it come to life onscreen. However I can definitely see why this movie could be bad in the eyes of people who didn’t read it.

First off a thing that bothered me was that it wasn’t in chronological order, which just felt tedious for me: I think it would’ve been better to show the bombing straight away in one long scene, that could’ve set the story up better

Next the time jumps were very annoying to me. One second he was in Vegas and then the next he was a grown up. I didn’t like that they kept jumping back and forth. Or even the cuts between a scenes. It made the movie feel choppy. Especially in Vegas you couldn’t get the sense of how long theo was actually there, and how that plays into Boris and Theos relationship.

Now the relationship. They really didn’t do a good job at explaining how Theo and Pippa were bad for each other, or Theos weird. Infatuation with Pippa. And allthough I’m not like a total boreo shipper, they definitely downplayed their relationship. Like the comedic music over the kiss? What the hell was that like that’s a sad part of the book. They should’ve really got into it more.

And lastly THEY DID HORRIBLE at explaining things. Since I read the book I obviously know what happens. But at the end in Amsterdam they were horrible at explaining. They show boris get shot and then cut to theo breaking down in the hotel, and then the next boris shows up to revive him. I was like ? They didn’t explain what happened to boris or even how theo was feeling compared to the book. They also never went back to MrSilver. They never even said his name until adult boris said “mr silver”. And it’s very hard to catch if your unsure who that even is.