Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Better as a Movie


While reading Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo, I was having trouble keeping all the stories in the work straight.  The story jumps around from scene to scene throughout the story.  The structure makes the plot of the story difficult to follow, not to mention that most of the characters are dead yet still part of the story.  My suggestion is that the story would be easier to follow if it were in movie form rather than in the traditional structure that it is currently written in.  This suggestion makes more sense than originally thought because of the fact that Rulfo also wrote movies.  And upon further discussion, I found out that Pedro Paramo was put into movie form, but only in Spanish.  I would enjoy seeing the work as a movie but I would not be running to the theatres to see it on opening night.  All in all, Pedro Paramo is a good work for readers who like piecing a story together and possibly reading the story a second time to fully grasp the meaning of the work.


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