From Thomas Crown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
In my 70-plus years on this planet, no one I met or whose film review I read who “loved the book” ever liked the movie version. No director will ever display what your imagination found in “your” book because literature and cinema are very different art forms. Dashed hopes are pretty much unavoidable. Simon Ings’s letdown at not seeing “his” Mickey 17 while watching Bong Joon Ho’s film is palpable. His problems with the film’s content are misguided. The Mickey 17 in his review isn’t the movie I saw (5 April, p 30).
