Review of A Passage to India (1984) by Tom G — 19 Dec 2017
Some novels cannot be translated to the screen and David Lean has demonstrated that "A Passage to India" is on e.
Of them. The movie has none of the novel's subtlety and betrays the novels theme by becoming a dull moralizing melodrama. When I studied the novel in school, the question that the better students asked was 'Why could Professor Godpole not love the stone?" None of the novel's motavtings of that question appear in the movie and with this the movie betrays the novel. Even the novel's ending of "No, not yet'> in regard to the reconciliation among people is absent and substituted with a easy happy ending. This is a movie that is not worthy of the novel that it is based on.
This review of A Passage to India (1984) was written by Tom G on 19 December 2017.
A Passage to India has generally received positive reviews.
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