Love Story was considered so good, it they also made a movie about it. Directed by Arthur Hiller, written of course by Erich Segal was considered one of the best movies at the time (1970). However, the movie differs in some instances from the actual novel. The novel has those deep, profound romantic moments that a movie just cannot capture. I guess the movie compared to the novel differs from the person. Personally I pictured some the characters looking different, and the whole environment looking a bit more cheerful. In the movie we always have that figurative coldness all over with snow, whiteness, coldness which made me kinda sad, not as much as the novel though. The novel in my opinion had that non-so-white environment but in a way sadder. The movie misses some points and at the end, it misses the whole point of the novel. Jenny being a heroine at the end, and her death bringing together the family. In fact the movie ends in total tragedy, Jenny dies, his whole life shatters and at the end even the family does not reunite. So Oliver's whole life takes a miserable turn. I just thought the movie was only one sad dimension. Reading the book, the imagination let me create my own story based on the guidelines that the author provided me. That is how I find the book romantic, lovely, sad, passionate and everything that a good love contains, the movie was less than that...I guess that is enough for a 1970 movie.
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