It was always going to be difficult to capture the essence of John Kerouac’s novel on film. It’s certainly got a taste of the book, as if holding onto the exhaust of the old Cadillac but it doesn’t quite hit the spot. The roles are played great with Garrett Hedlund stealing the show as Dean Moriarty and Sam Riley playing a steady Sal Paradise.
It may have seemed like a somewhat pointless venture for those that haven’t read the book and aren’t invested in the characters but as with the book it has the pivotal moment near the end in which for a minute, you feel you understand, as though you’re grasping a truth. It doesn’t have the relentless, fast, heavy pace of the book in fact it felt like one of the longest films I had ever watched. But the cinematography is very good. It shows the road way of life in its drugs and jazz and sex as told, keeping true to the novel.
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