I Finally saw Ice Harvest in the movie house and I was
disappointed, not greatly disappointed but It was not worth
the 8.50 per ticket I spent to see it. I hurts me that there
are so many movies that are essentially B-movies that I would
enjoy for what are, programmers to fill out a bill. But when
those movies are billed as A-movies and are charging a full
fare it hard to take. I realize that the economy of movie
making is such that it can not support that type of
distribution model. But it made it easier for the movie
viewer to see many more minor movies that they would
otherwise not see. I imagine that Straight-to-Video and cable
provides that function today.
Back to the Ice Harvest, the movie and the book. I found the
changes that were made in the movie were a drawback. By not
setting the movie in the time period of the book which I
believe was the early 70's created some problems. The first
is that cell phones were not that prevalent and they would
have easily eliminated the miscues and miscommunications
between the characters. The whole Porno Titty bar angle seems
anachronistic for the current time. Not that some Porno shops
are still around but by far most of Porno sales are conducted
via the internet. And most Titty bar if there are not upscale
pretend to be. There both were sleazily appropriate for
1970's rather than now.
As I was reading the Ice Harvest I must admit that the
structure for me was odd. The first two thirds of the novel
was just a series of disjointed meetings, missed
opportunities and one bacchanal after another in the middle
of a Midwestern ice storm. If I did know that there was a
crime involved from this listserve I would have mistook the
novel for another Pointless New Yorker short story and given
up on it. The details of how the two partners pulled off the
heist is never given. I think that the ending of the novel is
better if only because it promises a better follow on
novel.
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