This film is all about a man who starts to spend his days in a park next to his daughter's school. He found, in that park, some sort of peace sanctuary, and people he knew for years started to meet him there, exposing their problems to him, just to be listened, because he was doing something most of them dared to even try...
I guess the film achieved that point pretty well, but missed a few aspects from the book, like it has already been mentioned by other reviewers..
He tripped with his brother in the opium scene. They were supposed to have a conversation by telepathy...very fraternal, indeed...
The sex scene, I think, is disposable. In the book too... at least, I could not figure it out why is it there... Maybe he is trying to convince himself that he fully supplanted Lara's death...
Another miss, is the final phone call, where he, finally, reaches madness...
I guess the film achieved that point pretty well, but missed a few aspects from the book, like it has already been mentioned by other reviewers..
He tripped with his brother in the opium scene. They were supposed to have a conversation by telepathy...very fraternal, indeed...
The sex scene, I think, is disposable. In the book too... at least, I could not figure it out why is it there... Maybe he is trying to convince himself that he fully supplanted Lara's death...
Another miss, is the final phone call, where he, finally, reaches madness...