Well, I wish you would, just so I'd know what you thought :) I've not read the original or seen any other adaptions, so I don't have anything to compare it to; I expect that review was fairly accurate.
I'd recommend it to someone who liked that sort of thing, but wasn't aware of brideshead. But it's not like films that just do something completely different to the premise of the original, and you can just pretend they're unrelated; whether you think it's how waugh ought to be or a travesty, I think it's definitely colouring your impression of that book.
(They're right that the Catholicism is portrayed very cuttingly. I very much sympathised with all of the Catholic characters, but if you haven't read the book, the message did look like it was supposed to be "religion fucks you up". I hope that's because the original portrayal is sufficiently human you can see it in different ways, but I don't know how someone who liked the book would see it.)
(Do you two want to come by for the party tonight? :))
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Date: 2008-10-11 02:58 pm (UTC)I'd recommend it to someone who liked that sort of thing, but wasn't aware of brideshead. But it's not like films that just do something completely different to the premise of the original, and you can just pretend they're unrelated; whether you think it's how waugh ought to be or a travesty, I think it's definitely colouring your impression of that book.
(They're right that the Catholicism is portrayed very cuttingly. I very much sympathised with all of the Catholic characters, but if you haven't read the book, the message did look like it was supposed to be "religion fucks you up". I hope that's because the original portrayal is sufficiently human you can see it in different ways, but I don't know how someone who liked the book would see it.)
(Do you two want to come by for the party tonight? :))