![]() Theo loses his mother in the bombing, but steals away with a priceless painting, Carel Fabritius' "The Goldfinch," after unthinkingly recovering it from the rubble. ![]() Often labeled "unadaptable" due in part to its bulk, The Goldfinch always struck me as actually being perfect for the big screen: When 13-year-old Theo Decker visits the Met with his mother, the pair become victims in a 9/11-like terrorist attack. ![]() But if insanity is the repetition of something while expecting different results, then what was director John Crowley thinking when he set about faithfully duplicating all of Tartt's same mistakes?Īt over 700 pages long, The Goldfinch took Tartt 11 years to write and hit shelves more than two decades after the publication of her more unanimously beloved debut, The Secret History. Tartt's novel hadn't been perfect (I gave it a mixed-positive review in 2013), but its flaws, at least, were evident: It was bloated and could drag its conclusion was rushed and tonally miscalculated it rang with disdain for people without education and taste. I felt similarly bewildered watching the big-screen adaptation of The Goldfinch this week. ![]()
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