Confusing movie so far -- the way it's been edited or presented

I agree completely...I'm having a hard time wanting to stay with it.

The flashbacks have to be paid attention too...in the first half hour of the film right after he first glances his mom, the flashbacks seem to be presented in reverse order of the way they actually happened in order to lead back to Chick's suicide attempt. After he meets his mother,the flashbacks don't seem to have any order, they seem to go back and forth from his childhood to his adulthood in no particular order, the scenes then flashed back to explain specific events that Chick always wanted to talk to his mom about but never got a chance before she died.

Imperioli's young son does a nice acting job tho'..Looks exactly like the old man.

jmo

cb

The book is presented that way, but it's done right. The movie isn't. In the book, the flashbacks are in italics, on separate chapters. In the movie, mixed and matches everything that sometimes you don't know if it's a flashback or not, and the way it is written the present-flashback thing happens a lot.

They could have easily improved this by using color palette, something akin to 'The Road Home' movie where the present is presented in Black and White and The Flashback in color, not the other way around, since the flashback scenes outnumber the present in length...

So yes, I did read the book, and without reading it, the movie would have been confusing, good movies doesn't require reading the written materials...