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kaitlynnecook's review
5.0
I didn't think reading a screenplay would be SO GOOD. I've never seen the movie nor read Ondaatje's novel but now I HAVE TO.
nharkins's review
5.0
as stated in my review of the book, this is one of the few cases
of a very good book which made an even better movie. so as not to
repeat myself, i'll jump to the crux passage, as it was in the movie
(admittedly much better with context, but still amazing, imo):
"We die. We die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,
bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in,
like this wretched cave. I want all this marked on my body. We are the real
countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps, the names of powerful men.
I know you'll come carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've
wanted, to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on an earth without
maps. Now the lamp has gone out, and I am writing in the darkness."
of a very good book which made an even better movie. so as not to
repeat myself, i'll jump to the crux passage, as it was in the movie
(admittedly much better with context, but still amazing, imo):
"We die. We die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,
bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in,
like this wretched cave. I want all this marked on my body. We are the real
countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps, the names of powerful men.
I know you'll come carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've
wanted, to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on an earth without
maps. Now the lamp has gone out, and I am writing in the darkness."
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