I don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous for a movie as I was for this one. Jonathan Safran Foer’s book holds such a special place as one of my three favourite fiction books of all time. After seeing the two others on that short list (The Kite Runner, Never Let Me Go) result in not-actually-bad movies that just didn’t do their books justice, I was worried that this would only cheapen the novel’s story.
To put it simply, that didn’t happen.
