Comparison. Jan Guillous’ ” Evil”. (0)

Comparison . Jan Guillous’ ” Evil ”.
“Evil” is based on a 1981 autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou. It is about a boy called Erik Ponti who had always had violence in his life. Whether he was beat by his father or was he the one being violent to others . After problems in school, his mother decides to send him to a private school, and in order to do so, she had to sell some of her precious items . Erik understand that the private school called Stjärnsberg is his last change to get a good education and he wants to stop being violent. He goes to Stjärnsbergwith great hope and at first , its seems that he could do really well. But after a while he understand, that the school is probably the worst place where to be, when you want a peaceful life. The teachers look the other way as the older students are very brutal to younger, creating a hierarchical society based on class and age.
The film was made in 2003 and directed by Mikael Håfström. Andreas Wilson plays the leading role of Erik Ponti. It has been named Best Film , Best Cinematography, Best Production Design (2004 Swedish Film Awards ); Audience Award for Best Feature (2004 Miami International Film Festival ). And it was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category in the 2004 Oscars. The plot of the film is basically the same as the books , but in the film, the director has tried to make Erik seem better. In my opinion it was unnecessary because although Erik was more violent in the book, he still made a positive impression . But in the movie some of the most important scenes were left out and the movie lost a lot with that. It seems that the director tried to make Erik seem like a non-violent hero or something like that.
At first, when I found out that “Evil” is going to be on TV, I was really exited in seeing it and finding out on how it had been produced. But after seeing it, I was somewhat disappointed, because as I’ve said, the producer left out some of the best parts. But those who hadn’t read the book and watched it with me really liked it, so I guess it was a pretty good film. On the other hand , one of my friend who had read the book, thought the same as me. So I guess I would really recommend the book, but I would only recommend the movie to those, who have not read the book.