A Clean, Well-lighted Place response to movie

After watching the movie that goes with the book A Clean, Well-lighted Place, I noticed the director changed a lot from the book, and added completely new qualities. For starters, the book has in it’s first paragraph that the old man in the story is sitting in the only shadow, in the well lighted café. In the movie the old man is in the middle of the café with no shadow near him. However, I noticed that the booth the man is sitting on is black, which could relate to the darkness of the shadow.

Another thing I noticed the director added to the movie that was not in the book was the music. In the first minute of the movie, this depressing, off sounding song comes on that sets the mood for loneliness and sadness. It helps foreshadow that something sad is going to happen. The same song also comes on later in the movie when the old man is forced to leave the café. The director put this in there to make the person watching feel the loneliness the old man is being put through. Actors aso played an important role in putting a picture in the watcher’s head. The author of the book couldn’t add in facial expressions into the book, so it’s interesting to see how the actors react to their lines and storyline.