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adaptation of the book by Michael Murphy, it might get such a low rating due to
my high expectations of the movie. The
book is I believe one of the greatest books that expresses the spirituality of
Golf. But no, it gets such a low rating because it is a poorly made movie. I am not sure if the movie was just done
amateurishly due to a low budget, or if they were going for a Terrance
Mallckesque type surrealistic vision.
However the cinematography was just poor. The movie screen was mostly dark throughout
the movie. And although one could see
this metaphorically that humans are living in darkness, it doesn’t make for an engaging
movie. The movie also suffered from characters
with deep sometimes non understandable Scottish accents. So although this might
have made it more authentic, it made it non understandable. If one
didn’t know the book, they would not gain even a modicum of the depth of its
meaning from watching the movie. The only saving grace of the movie is that at
many points it quotes the book and it was a good reminder as to why the book
held such meaning for me. Read the book,
ignore the movie.
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