If you've read the book - you're going to appreciate the careful adaptation of the atmosphere, and perhaps the some of the slight changes in the story telling that better fit the cinematic story telling. If you haven't read the book, you'd probably like to concentrate on this, and approach it as you approach a book - you can never judge a piece of literature either by the covers.
The movie adaptation is categorized as a thriller and it kind of fits the bill, but - the adaptation doesn't serve you a Hollywood thriller with a industry standard blueprint plot and characters. And that's a good thing too, since the book doesn't either, it would've been a shame to ruin the narrative and atmosphere by having it "hollywoodized" for easy pastime. This one isn't one of those movies. If you suspect it turns into a thriller with supernatural horror tropes - no, it's not. And if you think it's going to be an action packed revenge story - it's not that either. Sure, there's bloody action and revenge tropes, sure there's hints at wolf myths from ancient cultures. The movie adaptation actually drops these few nods to genre fiction and uses some trope scenes and motifs - as the book narrative does - and that's perhaps misleading some unsuspecting genre movie consumers leading to frustrated expectations and inevitable bewilderment. As said, you'd probably want to "read" this movie, as a unique story outside genres.
The movie adaptation is categorized as a thriller and it kind of fits the bill, but - the adaptation doesn't serve you a Hollywood thriller with a industry standard blueprint plot and characters. And that's a good thing too, since the book doesn't either, it would've been a shame to ruin the narrative and atmosphere by having it "hollywoodized" for easy pastime. This one isn't one of those movies. If you suspect it turns into a thriller with supernatural horror tropes - no, it's not. And if you think it's going to be an action packed revenge story - it's not that either. Sure, there's bloody action and revenge tropes, sure there's hints at wolf myths from ancient cultures. The movie adaptation actually drops these few nods to genre fiction and uses some trope scenes and motifs - as the book narrative does - and that's perhaps misleading some unsuspecting genre movie consumers leading to frustrated expectations and inevitable bewilderment. As said, you'd probably want to "read" this movie, as a unique story outside genres.
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