It is not stated that Violet has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the crash, but the subtle hints show she is at least suffering from some form of stress due to the incident. This is truly the beginning of Violet and Finch’s relationship, as she recollects being in the car during the crash. Theodore, who goes by Finch and is portrayed by actor Justice Smith, finally convinces Violet to drive to a wandering that is over a hundred miles away. Violet, played by Elle Fanning, has a fear of cars due to her sister’s death nine months earlier. They are meant to find and write about the great wonders, or ‘wanderings’ of their small town in Indiana. ATBP is based around Violet Markey and Theodore Finch working together on a project for one of their classes. Small indifferences like this bother me less than completely altered scenes, although the Bell Tower scene at the beginning of the book makes for a better opening. Rather than being the Bell Tower at their high school, it is at the bridge Violet Markey’s sister died via car crash.

The All The Bright Places–ATBP for short – movie adaption begins with the two main characters meeting in a similar way as they had in the book. All The Bright Places was only about 388 pages Depending on how invested I was with the book. I was a kid who would rather have her nose stuck in a book instead of watching a movie. So I read almost every teen/young adult novel I could at the time. Factor in the opinion that some Netflix produced films are terrible compared to other film studio productions, and you get me staring at my TV, wondering if All The Bright Places is worth the watch.Īs a kid who grew up rarely watching movies, I could get through a 400-page book within two or three days. Of course, there are plenty of exceptions because sometimes the film modifications are insanely better than their literate equivalent including Mean Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, and Silence of the Lambs. Take the Percy Jackson Series, one of the most disliked movie adaptations of my generation. The seemingly unanimous opinion between readers is that most books are better than their film adaptation counterparts.

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