Little while ago I was able to finally get my hands to a book called The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The book was first published actually in 2005. I saw the trailer of the movie maybe about a month ago and thought that I want to see the movie. My friend told me that it was originally a book. My other friend said i shouldn't be disappointed because it's not as good as everyone says. This brought my mood little bit down. But despite of that I decided to read it anyway.
I read this 500 page book in 6 days probably. I loved every single page of it. I have always been interested in the time of World wars, so it is a perfect book for me. I love the writing style and I was really pleased in the time I used to read the book.
So the movie came out here last week's Wednesday, I was done with the reading on Tuesday. But I wanted to wait because it was test week.
Finally yesterday I was able to see the movie.
I don't want to spoil the story to you if you haven't read the book or watched the movie. So don't worry about that. The story starts when Liesel Meminger is traveling in train towards her new family. Her mom has decided to give up of her and her brother for adoption. Everything is happening during the World war 2 in Nazi Germany. Sadly Liesel's brother doesn't make it and Liesel is only one to arrive to Himmel street where she is going to live with her new "Papa" and "Mama" Hans and Rosa Huberman. Liesel meets lots of new people at the Himmel street, and neighbor's boy Rudy Steiner eventually becomes her best friend.
The plot is really complicated and has many big details in it. One detail is how Hubermans take a Jew to hide to their basement.
The movie itself was beautifully filmed. You could see they really wanted to make good work with it. I think actors were well chosen and they fit their roles. Thing that sometimes is considered as funny is how people ,for example in this case, in Germany speak English. I liked the fact that they had still put there some lines, songs and small things in German, and it didn't ruin anything for me.
The movies plot had some little changes if we compare it to the book's story. Some people might find it as a bad thing. It really didn't bother me. I understand how it's just impossible to put everything in 500 pages book to one movie. There was also some changes in things that happened in books, they just happened differently in the movie. This didn't bother me either. One change just made me die inside because of all the emotion that it made me feel because it was really dramatic.
I feel that The Book Thief both movie and book are something I could recommend to other people too.
It wasn't waste of my time, I think it was very good thing to spent time with. I could talk lot more of the movie with you, but I really don't want to spoil anything if you haven't seen it yet.
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