Christina,
Re your comment below:
"I finally did get my hands on a (VHS) copy of Truffaut's The
Bride Wore Black. Generally I find myself frustrated with
film adaptations of novels
(characters, for example, often seem to lose their layers and
become less interesting) , but I loved Truffaut's
ending."
I was quite disappointed in the ending of the film.
What made the book for me was Woolrich's clever turning of
the basic situation. For most of the book we have a fairly
standard example, a gripping and well-done example, bu fairly
standard nonetheless,
"inverted" mystery in which we know who the killer is and the
fun is watching the detective try to figure out what we
already know.
In the last section, suddenly Woolrich pulls a switch and
turns the story into a whodunit. Suddenly we know longer know
who he killer is, and have to figure it out.
And what the killer finally learns about her campaign of
vengeance is a nastily ironic touch.
All of this is scuttled in the film. The detective isn't even
a character. I was very disappointed in Truffaut's version,
the ending along with the rest.
JIM DOHERTY
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