Absolutely. That is an excellent point about the filmic narration. And the typewriter thing did seem to me like something that would come out of a class project on the novel! The director cannot possibly convey the power of McEwan's roving omniscient narration, which is more like the compassionate sparrow-spotting godlike narrators of the great Victorian writers, particularly Eliot and Hardy, than it is like a camera's eye.
Joe Wright has excellent taste in books, obviously, and he is a hottie besides (have you ever seen a picture of him?!), but I'd like to see what he could do without a great novel under his microscope.
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Joe Wright has excellent taste in books, obviously, and he is a hottie besides (have you ever seen a picture of him?!), but I'd like to see what he could do without a great novel under his microscope.