![]() There's been some minor changes done to shorten the travel, which unfolds like some kind of a trip or road movie, if you like, just as the book. That's a major thing in making this work. The most boring parts of the book is when Allan thinks back, and this is narrated down, so that the story happening present is the main thing. Well, how well is the novel brought to the screen, then? Well, surprisingly well, I would say. A mixed audience, with surprisingly many pensioners, which have read the book, will probably guarantee the film to be an even bigger success than the novel. I enjoyed the film in a quite crowded cinema, which already started laughing at the first scene, and so i t went on. They have tried to lock him up more than once, but he's not the easiest to detain. He's made both tragedy's as well as things leading to happier consequences. Inwise decisions gives severe results, and looking back on his own life, he's done it before. ![]() The 100 years old Allan runs away from his birthday party, and starts a story which only he could be behind. It's a good farce, which will give out many laughs. ![]() The book functions, and I'm glad to say that the narrative grips made on this as a script works as well. ![]() Other films it's in class with here would be "Fargo", "One night at McCools", "Seven psychopaths" a.s.o. Well, to make a long story short, this is an unlikely black comedy in style of Forrest Gump, though darker and way more stupid, and filled with more stupid humans. I read the book just days before I saw the world premiere on this, as I got the book as a x-mas gift, just two days before the premiere. A success that has spread to a lot of other countries as well. The Jonas Jonasson novel "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out the Window and Vanished" has been a gigantic success in Sweden, selling more that 250.000 copies. ![]()
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