Review of Heart of Darkness

I had read the book Heart of Darkness and I loved the book. The book was intriguing and cleverly worded. I figured it would be hard to make a movie out of the book because of all the flash backs that Marlow would have while he was telling the story of Kurtz and his adventures in Africa. I didn't expect too much out of the movie, but it was better then I expected. People who say it was a crappy movie and it didn't reflect the book are ignorant and do not realize the immense effort it would take to make a movie out of Heart of Darkness. You would have to read the book to appreciate the movie. The director cut out and changed some of the events in the movie because the people who haven't read the book wouldn't understand the significance of some of the scenes. I didn't think the movie was amazing but it was the best representation of the book that someone could make. No one else has made a heart of darkness movie because it takes a lot of effort and it is extremely hard to make a movie that would be exactly like the book. I do admit that they should have stayed true to some of the scenes in the book, like when you are supposed to see the picture of the woman that's blind folded and holding the torch in the beginning, the movie has Marlow see that painting in the ending instead of the beginning. Also, they should have had the one of the women who were knitting the palls escort Marlow in the Assistant of Companies office like in the book, instead of Marlow just walking into the office. In the book when Nafumu (The Helmsman) died, it never said what they did to the body and I assumed the other cannibals ate him, I like how in the movie Marlow throws him off the boat in the water so the cannibals on the boat can't eat him. I also liked how the director made sure that the audience understood that Kurtz was an evil man by showing him breaking the monkey's neck. That scene was not in the book but if the director hadn't of thrown that scene in the movie then the audience wouldn't have perceived Kurtz as an evil man. I have concluded that the movie was okay. I have mixed feeling about it but I think people would at least appreciate the movie, but only if they read the book first. I do recommend the movie to people who have already read the book.