... Beloved, I felt as I usually do upon watching a movie based on a novel, disappointed. Films rarely live up to the expectations set up by a great novel and this is due to the limitations of working with film as a medium. This paper will attempt to exploit these limitations ... and explain why Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is superior to its film version. A major flaw of the film Beloved is that it did not hint at many of the underlying themes ... better grasp of the characters" actions and reasoning through Morrison's description of past and present events and surroundings. In the film,...

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