Finished with my viewing. A movie from 2019 I had zero interest in ever seeing, just as I had zero interest in reading the novel it's based on (or as the kiddies today say, "based off" - no, it's based ON) because I read a plot synopsis of the novel and it just seemed too long and too weird, plus I don't read fiction when I'm writing it. But it came up on Tubi (yes, with thirty minutes of commercials to endure) and when I saw it was two-and-a-half hours long I almost passed it by - but I'm really glad I took the chance because it's clever and beautifully done. And the adaptor veered away from the novel in certain ways I'll talk about in the notes, and that's why this works so well.
