Final Entry

MY FINAL POST


The Secret LIve of Bees

First I have to say, that I’m happy I chose the book. In the beginning I figured that all of the books would be pretty boring. And that I would have to force my self to read. But “The Secret Life of Bees” really was a good book, and I really enjoyed reading it! For a book to catch my attention, it has to tell a good story. That’s exactly what “The Secret Life of Bees” did. Reading about, racism, segregated love, Lily’s search for a mother and more, opened my eyes to how it was for many back in the days.

Before I started to read the book, I knew about the movie. I had already seen the trailer for it, and really looked forward to watch it. When I turned the last page in the book, I was even more exited to watch the movie. During reading the book, I realized that the movie had to be really good to match up with the book. After seeing the movie, I have to conclude with the book being better than the movie. It’s always that way with books and movies. Books always seems to be the better part of a film adaption. I don’t know why it always is that way, but I guess it’s because after reading a book you look forward to see your favourite part in the movie, and then suddenly that part is not there. There is so much that brings a book into a movie, the actors, the story, the setting, actually everything. This makes the chance to make mistakes even bigger. There are so many things to remember. And by making a movie based on a book, people have expectations to how it should be. I think this was the problem with the movie, The Secret Life of Bees. After reading the book my expectations were huge, and I hoped the movie would be exactly like I had imagined the story myself. Of course the movie was different from what I imagined it to be.

If I had seen the movie without reading the book, I think I would have found it better. The thing I really looked forward to see was when T Ray told Lily that she shot her mom. I imagined Lily’s face my self, when T Ray rubs it in her face, that it was her that shot Deborah. He makes it clear, that it was Lily, and that there is nothing more to it. In the movie, they only talk about if her mom was coming back to get Lily or not. This really bugged me, and kind of ruined the movie for me.
One more thing that irritated me was the way the movie showed T Ray. The book showed him as a terrible person. Of course I felt sorry for him in the end, but the book was still pretty harsh. The movie on the other hand, put him as a vulnerable person. He still does terrible things, but the movie makes you feel sorry for him.

After all, I think the book was great, and that the movie was alright.

Kind Regards
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