After seeing the movie, I agree with what inquisitor has said. The movie was "as if the manuscript was dropped and reassembled in a random order." Some of the conversations where placed with the wrong character at the wrong time. For example, Luke had a talk with Sophia about how he needed to quit riding bulls or it would kill him, but in the movie the conversation happened before it was supposed to and it was his mom who said it to him. Not to mention that they added random events that never happened. In the book they never went to an art show and met Sophia's possible boss. Also, in the movie they changed how she lost her job. In the book she just wasn't good enough for the job, but in the movie she gave up the job because like got hurt again. Which brings me to the next point: in the book, Luke doesn't get injured and go to the hospital but in the movie he does.
Next on the list is Ira and his love story. His story, though heard by Sophia reading letters, was pretty much as I imagined it would be. I was in tears the last third of the movie. Ira and Ruth were just as I had imagined them to be.
My major disappointment with the movie is in the message that had been conveyed. The movie focused on sacrificing for who you love, though sweet, wasn't what the book was about. They shaped the movie around this non existing theme, changing conversations and straight up putting new scenes in to twist the story to mean something else. It wasn't about how love can last forever.
The ending of the book was beyond amazing compared to the movie. They set it up as Ira dropping hints to Luke to buy the portrait of Ruth and his future will be rich. But in the book, the ending was based on an understanding of what it was like to love someone forever. Luke bought the painting on his own willpower, defining him as a character, unlike in the movie.
Though the movie has Ira living for a while after the accident and has him found at the wrong time, I was pleasantly delighted to how they portrayed his love for Ruth. Had it not been for how well the director stuck to Ruth and Ira's love story, I would have hated the movie all together. I wasn't happy with the portrayal of Sophia and Luke. Leaving out the real way they met was a huge no-no in terms of book to movie adaptations, as well as leaving out the ways in which I fell in love with each of these characters.
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