TheLostFlowersofAliceHart is changed for the better in its small screen adaptation, kaiyashunyata writes:
focuses on one young woman’s journey through a traumatic adolescence and an even rockier adulthood. The book was released in 2018 to solid reviews, favoring Ringland’s flowery language and sprawling descriptions. The main criticism though, was the characterization of Alice and the omission of depth of the novel’s supporting characters. Prime Video’s adaptation gives both aspects a needed reworking, allowing a tightened and more effective story to blossom.
There, a librarian named Sally notices Alice’s disheveled state and calls her husband, a police officer. This shifts the events of Alice’s life forever, setting off a chain of events that unravel the rest of the story. After Alice sets a fire that kills her mother and father, she is left comatose and then transferred into the care of her estranged grandmother June . June works on a flower farm, housing abuse survivors and cultivating a safe haven for them.
A timeskip in Episode 4 unveils just how different this adaptation will be. Now, while the bones of the novel are still there, and story beats remain the same, the time skip in the series allows the creators to refocus on what kind of story they are attempting to tell. The tone changes from the whimsical becoming that 9-year-old Alice had begun to go through, to a door-slam realization in her 20’s that forces her to change.
While the novel hinted at her past and glossed over her Indigeneity, in the show, Twig’s status as an Indigenous queer Australian woman is integral to her connection to the story, June, and even Alice. It’s proof that if put in the right hands, an adaptation can buff up ideas that were present yet underutilized in the source material.proves itself as an adaptation that not only embraces change, but realizes this story would be all the better for it.
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