Well here I am slightly embarrassed by my previous post only six(ish) hours later. After watching the movie adaptation of, "Winter's Bone" I can safely say that it is not the story that makes this book special. It really is entirely in the writing, and this is quite evident in the movie. When you remove the descriptions of events, internal monologues, and transitions, you wind up with a disaster of a story. The movie almost made no sense, and that was with an operating knowledge of what was going on after having read the story. When you take all the writing out, you wind up with an uninspired mess of a story about a fist full of characters you don't care about. Doing things that you don't care about. For a purpose you don't care about. I take back anything I said about the book in my previous post. Granted the movie changed a few elements, lightened a few scenes up, and didn't include a drawn out close up of anyone urinating; but I have to insist that I will take the book as a complete work -hallucinogenic date rape of a minor and all- over this disorganized, soulless, train-wreck It's very rare for me to say or type this phrase, but I was wrong -and for the record, so is metacritic-. How this movie got good reviews is totally beyond me. Perhaps they watched a movie with a similar title that wasn't wretched, and are simply confused? Trying to watch the movie and stay objective, it didn't have any flow and made very little sense. Then again, I suppose Superman 2 is in the top movies of all time according to metacritic, so perhaps their vote doesn't count anymore on the back of that alone.
Oh, and if anyone was considering watching the movie rather than reading the book I recommend the following: The book is short, just read it. The only other option is to punch yourself in the face, because it'll be a lot more pleasant than sitting through the movie.
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