The transformation of Kristen Roupenian’s nuanced internet-breaking story of modern dating is uneasily turned into a more literal shocker
was in 2017, it didn’t seem like an obvious fit for any form of adaptation – a button-pushing speed-read that was as popular as it was self-contained. It told the story of a 20-year-old female student who briefly dates a schlubby, unreadable guy in his mid-30s in a way that many found instantly, uncomfortably, relatable. It was messy and uneasy and ultimately rather chilling as briefly dating someone can often be.Its success was such that more was sought, insisted upon even.
For Margot , there’s something relatively low stakes in giving her number to Robert , an awkward regular at the cinema she works at. She’s younger, more attractive and has a confidence he doesn’t appear to. But there’s something magnetic or at least fascinatingly indefinable about him that presents itself via a series of push-and-pull texts.
It’s obviously a fraught transformation, from a 7,000-word two-hander to an almost two-hour movie, and while much is added here , much is also lost. What was implicit in Roupenian’s text has been made explicit on screen, at times maddeningly so, exemplified by the opening use of Margaret Atwood’s never not relevant yet contextually unsubtle quote about men fearing being made a joke out of by women while women fear being murdered by men.
Ashford and director Susanna Fogel, co-writer of Booksmart, do find some graceful ways to adapt their material though There are stylish visual choices and the internal monologue is transplanted to screen without relying on thudding voiceover via funny montages of Margot imagining what Robert’s life might really be like.
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