Should I watch the film adapted from the masterpiece of 2025 Nobel winner, or dive into the book first? I guess no one here will be able to read the book in Hungarian, and I'm lingering between the English and Russian translation (fyi neither of them is my mother tongue).
>>24785663The film is literally 7 hours long. Reading the book is actually faster
I only watched the film, in one sitting (on the day of the Capitol takeover lmao, I completely ignored the news that day). It is a very good film, but it could have been shortened to 5 hours and a half - six hours...
>>24785685It could be shortened to 90 minutes easily.
>>24785663probably just watch the movie, otherwise it will be hard to imagine the context (unless you lived on a plains filled with communist infrastructure in the late 20th century)
>>24785663It doesn't matter. They're brilliant for different reasons. Obviously only watch the film if you're interested and used to slow cinema. You won't get anything out of it otherwise.
>>24785820If you can't imagine that maybe you are too retarded to read, sorry.
>>24785820>probably just watch the movie, otherwise it will be hard to imagine the context>this is advice on the literature board
the english translation is very good literature, szirtes is a poet and a friend of his and spent a long time getting it as good as it is.
>SATANTANGO>SATAN TANGOuhhh Im not engaging in your satanism, heathen.
>>24785663I've watched the film twice, both times in one sitting. It's really good. It's divided in chapters and the point of view characters keep changing, so it's closer to binging a mini series than watching a long movie. It goes flying. I have the book, but haven't read it yet. I've read The Melancholy of Resistance though and it's brilliant, and so is the movie.
>>24785663Werckmeister Harmonies is a far superior film.
>in one interview Tarr says he knows the cat wasn't killed because he adopted it>in another interview Tarr says he knows the cat wasn't killed because his friend adopted itHE KILLED THE CAT HE KILLED THE CAT HE KILLED THE CAT
