I
don’t know what to say exactly, but it was good… that’s for sure. I really
wonder why Stephen King’s books are boring at the first and then get more and
more interesting. And at the ending, boom! Huge impression. A deep touch in the
heart surges upon. Well, enough of building castles in the air. Let me talk
about the specifics
I
decided to focus on just one aspect that I like the most: characters. The four
boys were so lively and full of energy that I could feel them by soul. You get
what I mean? I hear them talking to each other as if they are talking to me. The personalities and actions of
each boy is so vivid. They seem so humanlike.
Yes,
all four of them were charming boys. But everyone has their own favorites,
right? I have one too. Chris Chambers. He is the kind of guy whom you just
naturally get to like. He comes from a bad family, all his older brothers a
gang, his father a menacing whore, and so on. Everyone, even Chris himself,
does not expect Chris to be anything else. It’s that simple.
But
he is just too good to be wasted like that. He says, in the story, when he is
only twelve, to his friend Gordie:
“I
wish to fuck I was your father! You wouldn’t go around talking about takin
those stupid shop course if I was! It’s like God gave you something, all those
stories you can make up, and He said: This is what we got for you, kid. Try not
to lose it. But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them and if
your folks are too fucked up to do it then maybe I ought to.”
It’s
a shame I cannot write his quote any further. There’s more, Chris going on about
the future Gordon might have, and what he will have. It’s heartbreaking really,
because the readers can feel and truly sympathize with Chris at that moment,
about how much he hates his designated future and his desire to make at least his
friend to have a bright future instead.
It
made me grateful for all of things I possess. Even right now, when I am sitting
in a warm room operating my computer, I am enjoying an enormous privilege over,
say, 95% of kids around the world. It’s not something new, but facing a kid
giving vent to his temper at the world’s irrationality always becomes a lesson
for me. Thank you, God.
*Personally,
I really loved the acting too. I mean, in the movie. I watched a video about
the director and the actors and it explained the reason it had to be good-
there were plenty of preparations! But while I was watching it, I wondered why
there wasn’t the actor of Chris Chambers- River Phoenix. And I found out he was
dead early. Shame.
