If you post every day, you run the risk of looking needy (as in desperate, not Amanda Seyfried's character in Jennifer's Body), whereas if you post intemittently readers may lose all interest for lack of patience. Despite being caught in this dilemma, I vailantly vow to proceed.
As I sit here, Heineken glass filled with juice of faucet, I realise I am [unsure where this sentence is going].
Today I completed James M. Cain's crime read "Double Indemnity" - Now a major motion picture. I'm confused by it, I'll admit that much. I've been wondering if it's because I saw the film first, and it's been burned onto my retina, or if it's just that the film has better cinematography, that I believe it to be the correct version of events. I respect Cain for coming up with the original idea, I'm just not sure I'm at all happy with the ending.
In the book, the last encounter between Walter and Phyllis is much more complex, with Walter planning the event and his alibi as carefully as he had the first time around, but it's resolution is one that, though I can understand it (until the last chapter), I don't agree with it. I don't want to spoil for people who haven't seen the film so I'm not going to go into details, but Billy Wilder's simplicity adds to rather than detracts from the story and he gives the characters a shade more humanity, that makes the ending almost poignant instead of just plain abrupt.
I did not begin blogging intending it as a flick (both paper and celluloid) review page so hopefully you'll see some variety soon from me. For now I descend from my perch to make pasta, pour Club Orange, and count the minutes until the television broadcasters (also kind enough to screen Sunset Blvd. for me on Thursday) screen Jersey Girl.
Adios.
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