Extremely loud and incredibly close movie vs. book

It is really refreshing how mankind has found ways of sharing stories, anecdotes, or even historical facts that can easily get under your skin, by not only telling you but by making you feel and understand someone else’s life, feelings and decisions. The key to a society where you can feel understood, respected and loved is communication and in my opinion, that is something that is clearly represented in both movie and book.

 Transmitting real emotions through paper or even a screen takes hard work and well thought out techniques. The purpose is to make the audience or readers understand certain things about a story but with different methods depending if it is a movie or a book. If you read “Extremely loud and Incredibly Close” you will find the characters personality and personal thoughts explained in more details. You can see their changes and evolution with every thought they have. Also, it is easier to interpret because you are basically in the character’s head.

 People tend to think a movie is the best way to transmit stories because it is more visual than reading. But they do not understand that because a movie tends to give a more direct message to the audience some key details to the story get lost. That means that you are not able to get all the points of view of all the characters, meaning you do not really have all the information you need to get in the story as if it were your own. That is why I enjoyed the multi genre project that was gave to me by my professor of Human Condition, Miss Cynthia Pittman. Giving the main characters their own voice and vision of the world makes a piece of art more understanding.

 The book version also gives a lot more insight in to other characters like Oskar’s grandfather and grandmother, were you can understand their story by the letters they wrote and also the place they took in Oskar’s journey of finding closure with his father’s death were the one who really ends up finding it is the grandfather. The movie’s focus was Oskar’s journey, leaving behind other characters that were also in grieve. In other words, the movie focused so much in giving the audience a happy ending that stopped feeling like real life, something I think it is a mistake because the point of the story is a family trying to find closure after a tragedy occurs and if you give an unreal happy ending the people cannot really relate to it.

 In my opinion, the book was by far most relatable than the movie. It gave good techniques to use if you ever found yourself in the aftermath of a tragedy. Also, it taught me that sometimes you won’t be able to find closure and it is something you must live with. Sometimes is better to focus on what a person meant and how she/he marked your life than just a key moment that may or may not come. Other than that, the story itself was inspiring in so many ways, the background story of the grandparents and the plot twist that Oskar’s mother knew all along what he was doing gave something special to the story. Many people still suffer from the tragedy of “9/11” that paralyzed the entire world and this story is a magnificent way of dealing with the aftermath.