The Long Walk. So they adapted my favourite book of King’s, before he got bloviated, and they’ve done an okay job, but some of the changes are totally unnecessary. No, man, totalitarian dictatorships are not bad because the dictator will literally come to your house and shoot your dad. That is not it. At all. I won’t go in to how the film seems to openly encourage not resisting in the face of violent suppression either, because I’m sure that looked like a different bargain in the 60s. The meat of the story is still there, and is still really grim and compelling, but many of the changes are vacuous, and some are downright counter-productive.
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