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trixie and i watched my sister's keeper (starring cameron diaz and abigail breslin) last wednesday. we are true blue jodi picoult groupies and i've repeatedly plugged the book as the best book i've ever read. ever. ever ever! so we waited for the movie, but we waited in trepidation. why? read.

for as long as i can remember, i've always loved reading books and watching movies. i see both as a welcome escape/therapy from everyday life so i don't really nitpick and rate like karir critics. kumbaga, relax lang. kung maganda, e di good. kung di masyado, on to the next.

however, when books are translated to movies, that's when i churn beef. experience have shown us that good books don't automatically equate to good screenplays. for example, we've seen that the harry potter movies just capture a third of the books' magic, sa kabila ng mga effects at merchandising nila. i'm not naive to expect all the nittygritties of the books in the movies; the moviemakers have the creative liberty to do what they want. morphing a 700page book to a 2hr movie is not an easy feat so tweaking here and there is inevitable.

BUT. when they totally murder the essence of the story, i don't see the point of even citing the book as its base. ugh. that's what happened to MSK, and it's infuriating. haaay. basta! don't judge a book by its movie, and it can't be any truer in the case of MSK.

i'm kinda scared now for the time traveler's wife, where the wild things are, and cloudy with a chance of meatballs. :(

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so, we teach our kids to love books. if only to save them from book-to-movie disasters. dabaaaah.

pero syempre, not only that. just the general idea that we can go to different places by flipping pages and making our imagination fly is something a child should learn. books are friends. (not food!) (... fish pala yun. hahaha. sa nemo.)

literacy moves people forward. how literate do you think is our generation now?