Poof

During this holiday season, I made sure to watch more than enough movies. My dad suggested that I should watch one of his favorites, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  He claimed this movie is one of the best of all time. I immediately thought about how Ms. Serensky chose Shutter Island over this supposedly amazing classic. After shuffling through many confused thoughts, I began to understand why she chose against watching this movie. First of all, the movie, The Namesake, was definitely an embarrassment after reading the novel during english class. In a larger sense, I have found that every movie I watch after perusing the novel comes no where close to the epic imagery and entertainment it possessed while I read. For some reason, I find myself disappointed by the scenes in a movie when they do not match exactly what I had pictured from the novel. Movies take away from ones' ability to imagine and create their own view of the story. They also rarely exactly follow the full story-line. Many movies stray away from important aspects of the original book. This not only takes away from the full story, but leaves me disappointed when I don't see one of my favorite parts of the novel on screen. Therefore, I am grateful for the chose of Shutter Island during english this week. I not only get to watch a good movie, but I will not lose the scenes I have imagined from our last novel. In the future, I will continue to enjoy books rather than rely on movies as entertainment. From my own experience, books have much more value.