The Commitments . . .

The Commitments itself as story is very attractive, enjoyable and good developed. When I read the entire book, I felt very involved with the story. At the beginning I had a different point of view of it. I thought it was placed in other times of history, in the 60’s may be, because of the guy who appears in the cover looks to me as a person of those years because of his hair style. Besides, I was a little lost with the story at the beginning because I couldn’t place the story and know where the characters were or what they were doing. Another important thing is the vocabulary used there, because I was confused with words like yis which then I realized that means you, or the word fella which means man. After those confusing characteristics of the book, I decided star reading again. Finally I could enjoy it and understand almost every word and the most important idea of The Commitments.

Then, I watched the movie, which impressed me more. With the book I drew in my mind an image of the characters, but the movie totally change it. I imaged the characters a little bit different, for example; I imaged Joey the lips as a fat men, like Deco in the movie, and Deco an attractive guy (because he was the vocals and the principal image of the band) not a overweight guy.

The chapter’s order in the story was different in both, for example in the book the interview that they had with a news men was after they first gig, but in the movie it was after another gig and in other circumstances. But it really doesn’t change the main idea.

Read the book and then watch the movie was very good for me because I could acknowledge if what I read was okay or similar to what the movie showed. I can say that the movie doesn’t distort what the book wants to mean and present us.