Philomena The Film The Book and Amazon.com

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Philomena the book - The other side of the story. I came to this book via the film of the same name which I had enjoyed. I often seem to see the film first and the read the book. I expected more of the same as the reviews of the film did admit to dramatic license and having experienced Irish Catholic nuns for myself I was curious to know more. The book is very very different from the film. Perhaps the name and the first section  in the convent is all they have in common. From then on the film is about Philomena  and the book is about her son Michael. From the moment he leaves the convent the  book is about him. In the film this amazing man hardly gets a look in. I suppose  because he was gay and the book is quite frank about his choice of lifestyle. Not   shocking for most of us but enough to make film distributors anxious. The film  would have been better if it were more like the book. The film was hard on Micheal's partner who in the film is depicted as an unhelpful  man and deservedly hard on the RC church which behaved in the way it usually does.  The book by contrast hardly dwells on Philomena herself, the USA visit never took  place, and is far more truthful about the whole discovery process which I preferred.  Truth is always stronger than fiction. I did enjoy it. I suppose for most of us convent educated girls reading this is a form  of masochism as we relive our school days with horrible nuns and creepy priests  which we can recognise only too well. The good thing is that if you have seen the film  you actually see the convent and surroundings so ones imagination does not have  to work so hard. What a pity the film did not have the courage to do it this way.

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