Posted by: growlingelderberry on: October 31, 2008
I’ve seen this book and its beautiful book covers display in local bookstores for quite some time now, and i am very tempted to read it. But I am not one who reads a lot, and books cost quite a lot where I come from,
Yesterday, by chance, i came across its DvD in the store, and immediately bought it as I wanted to know what the story is about and also theres my favourite actor, one Javier Bardem staring in the movie, so I watched it last night.
Now, I just look up this book on wikipedia and found that it is suppose to have been written by theis nobel prize writer.
The story is quite dumb …. at least how the movie portray it, I cannot tell what has Cholera got to do with the whole plot. The most interesting thing in the whole movie was it letter writing, and yet, it wasn’t highlighted, and I find in the whole movie the best story told, was when he write love letters to both the boy side and then the girl came and he reply to his own love letters for her.
I also failed to see how this man who lived with his mom, who cry the whole day, who refused to work, even when the mother beg relatives to give him work, he choose to stay in the mothers house until she die… ROFL does someone like this deserved to be love by a beautful woman or anyone at all? I think Fermina made the right choice, sort of. Maybe the book is written better. Oh, and what with this “self-psycho-therapy” of sleeping with hundreds of women suppose to be, like … blah
so who has watched or read the book?? what was your thoughts?
oh, btw Giovanna Mezzogiorno absolutely gorgeous.
