My sister said read the book first, I went to the movie anyway

My sister told me to read The Giver before seeing the film, but I figured the movie would cover it well enough. I sat through the whole thing and walked out confused about the ending, it skipped so much of the world building. Then I borrowed her copy, finished it in two nights, and realized the movie left out half the meaning. She just looked at me and said, "Told you so" in that calm way she does. Has anyone else had a movie ruin a story for them because you skipped the source material first?

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janac5127d ago

So what did she actually say when you admitted she was right? I mean, did she give you the full lecture or just let the look do all the talking? Because my brother does the same thing with books, and he drags it out for weeks after I mess up. The Giver is one of those books where the ending only makes sense if you know what the community is really built on, and the movie just skips over all that quiet stuff.