Anyone Read The Holy Innocents or The Dreamers?
If so, any differences with the film?
shareThere are a few, chief among them is that the book of The Dreamers is better written than Holy Innocents. I read them so long ago, though, that I can't summarize them properly at the moment. The twins have different names, there are extra scenes in the first book that were deservedly removed in the rewrite, and the endings are different as well. I was going to make a sort of compare & contrast write-up, but I got lazy. In any case, you aren't missing anything if you don't read Holy Innocents, but it's worthwhile to get a copy of The Dreamers.
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"Don't mock the afflicted."
--Paul's Grandfather, "A Hard Day's Night"
I actually looked it up. At least in The Holy Innocents, the twins have had sex with each other before, the twins succeed in shaving Matthew's public hairs and then he becomes catatonic and covers himself with his feces, and Matthew gets killed at the end during the riots.
shareugh... supports my idea that matthew speaks a bit for the director in his criticism of the twins' so-called romanticism and idealism. it appears that the matthew in the film has much stronger view point and becomes strong after being less dazzled by the twins.
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