mini-film and book update

I can't decide if I want to see the film version of Love in the Time of Cholera, or if it will just ruin my super love of the book. Suggestions?

I saw Lars and the Real Girl tonight with my friend Melissa and her friend Anne. I wasn't sure what to expect from the film, and I wasn't sure how I felt during it. In the end I gave it 4 out of 5 stars on netflix, but still processing the film. It has characteristics I seek out in movies: isolated protagonists, quirky crap, sad stories, funny bits...just not sure if it was awesome or not. What was very odd was that there is a scene in the film that incorporates my fave fave fave song, Talking Heads' This Must be the Place. In fact the scene is a replica of the video for the song, which only a super TH nerd would notice. Creeeepy! The movie inspired in me the need to write a bit, but of course I come home goof off and blog instead. Whoops.

I finished Tolstoy's Resurrection on the bus ride home. The ending was very frustrating for me. I need to read some analysis of the book before I say anything of substance, but I really didn't like that the last ten pages were an analysis of the Book of Mark from the Bible (is that how you write it?). Barf. The last few paragraphs were beautiful though, and I'll need to re-read them when I think about how life is all confusing and who knows where it's going and all that shmaltz.