One should of course be careful about comparing a film adaptation of a book to the book itself, but I will anyway as this film is totally missing out on the, in my opinion, most important story aspect of the book: How the society (in a nordic country) would handle an abnormal situation with undead people, and the panic that then follows. Instead this film is purely focusing on avant-gardistic melancholy based on the endless grief of three families where a recently deceased beloved one has come back as undead. And that's it.
Instead of using the length of the film (100 mins) to tell other interesting parts of the original story, it dwells on long, slow, silent, artsy scenes with extremely sparse dialogue and very few characters. The sound design, however, along with the music, is magnificent. The cinematography is great all the way through too.
Too bad that a great and unique novel by a truly unique author (John Ajvide Lindqvist) did not get the film adaptation it deserves this time.
Instead of using the length of the film (100 mins) to tell other interesting parts of the original story, it dwells on long, slow, silent, artsy scenes with extremely sparse dialogue and very few characters. The sound design, however, along with the music, is magnificent. The cinematography is great all the way through too.
Too bad that a great and unique novel by a truly unique author (John Ajvide Lindqvist) did not get the film adaptation it deserves this time.