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The Goldfinch: where to start reading
Adapts The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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1 parts
on screen
1 book
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Film (2019), in the books you are
at The Goldfinch.
through the end of the novel (the film reorders events but ends at the same point).
Movies and books diverge here
The film covers the same overall story as the novel but reorders it into a non-linear structure and cuts a great deal; the author disowned the adaptation. Reading the book still gives the full story regardless of where the film left you. A self-contained standalone.
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What the movies changed here
- CutBoris's girlfriend Kotku is dropped entirely, and his father's role is reduced from the novel.
- CutHorst, Boris's shady art-world associate, is left out of the film.
- CutThe tender kiss between Theo and Pippa before she leaves does not happen on screen.
- ChangedTheo and Boris are framed as bonding over their dead mothers, a lighter emphasis than the book gives it.
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The 2019 film adapts Donna Tartt's single 2013 novel but restructures its timeline into a non-linear cut and compresses the story heavily; critics and the author judged it a loose, thinned adaptation.
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