Books over Movies: Always

Hello there fellow reader! I am sure, like me, you must have at one point or another in life felt that the book was better than the movie based on the story. We would choose the book over the movie any day or “Always”. See what I did there? * wink? Only me? Alright.

I can’t tell you how many times I have been disappointed by the movie. Nope, I’ve lost count. And trust me, I always try not to be too excited when a movie based on a book comes out but they always get me only to be swept off my feet by the trailer and then hit on the ground, hard. This can be a debate that can go forever, I know. There are people who have only seen the movie and they like it; I get it.

It wouldn’t be too fair for me to expect so much from a movie either. I mean, can you really expect a movie to include every single thing in a time limit? No. obviously they’re going to have to pick the important scenes only. They cannot include the little moments that book readers get to go by. If they were to include everything, every little detail, the movie would go on for hours. And the characters; I mean what is the possibility that the casting director is going the find the exact same replica of the said character of the book? So, in all fairness, movies really do the best they can.

But books? Books give you a whole other world. Yeah, movies can make you really feel in the moment and feel empathy for the character but you are engrossed in the book. My fellow book readers would agree with me that books allow you to live the character. They give you this abundant, limitless imagination of the story that movies would never be able to justify. And that is what is so beautiful about the books. They give you heart wrenching lines that actually make you put down the book and stare into the wall to think about what you just read. Yeah, movies can make you cry, but ever had a book make you sob in the middle of the night? And that is why while your heart breaks for the character in the movie, it feels like an empty void in your life when you finish your book.

Would you agree? What would you prefer; the book or the movie?

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