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Different ending to the novel (which is a true story)


In the movie Lorenzo hands Olivia a cigarette pack containing a bag of heroin. In the far superior novel, we open on an older Lorenzo drinking coffee and then head into chapter 1 where everything is nearly word for word the same. The ending of the book however, there is no bag of heroin in the cigarette box, and they both make a promise to each other. One of them is in the movie and that is that Olivia promises to never take drugs ever again. She makes HIM promise that they will see each other again, and then we go back to him drinking coffee in the future and finishes it, and is led down a hallway where he is asked to identify Olivia as a corpse in what turns out to be a morgue... he leans in to her neck with his nose and then the novel is dedicated to olivia cuni 25th September and died from an overdose at the age of 33 on 9th January 2010. As powerful as the movie is, its a bastardisation of a true story. I've found that a lot is ommited from Niccoló Ammanitis' film adaptations (which he also writes the screenplays for). And yes the ending was very similar to "the 400 blows" (Les quatre cents coups), which if you do some research on will find to mean more loosely translated to "the 400 bad deeds" or some variation as there is no EXACT translation. Thank you for reading and I recommend the novel to anyone who wants a deeper look into what happened in the basement that week that happened in real life many years ago.

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So the problem is that the film depicts a better world than the book, one in which both of them can still keep their promises (or not)? Between a true story and a beautiful one, I prefer the later.

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