^ I just watched this as well. It was very disturbing to me. I have not read the book, but according to IMDb the screenwriters pretty much butchered the entire plot by not making it detailed enough. Personally, I liked the fact that it's more subtle than the novel. I don't need to see her being chopped up to know that's what happened. I got that when I saw the bag and the safe. I think people who actually wanted to visually see this captured in detail are entirely to desensitized to this stuff and that's disturbing as well. They also don't understand that movies are for interpretation and books are for detail. If a book was to be made into a movie with all it's details it would be ridiculously long. Anywayz, it had beautiful musical score and the "in between" scenes were breathtaking. (SPOILER)Although it was very unsatisfying that no one ever found her body.

The thing that really annoyed me with this film is the narration. The constant droning of the main character throughout was a cop out to me. It's like saying, oh hey I'm going to just read some excerpts from the book or script because I don't feel like shooting some extra shots to move the story along. It didn't help that her voice was just incredibly bad for narration altogether though her acting was pretty good. So was Stanely Tucci's. Creepy as hell. The acting by all the main cast was good -- surprisingly even Mark Wahlberg was good even though he did some of the worse acting I have ever seen in The Happening.

There was also some scatterbrain scenes of Susan Sarandon's character rearing away from the plot of the story, but then it came back again. The editing was also on par. There were cuts from one shape to one shape. In particular, I liked the cut from the lighthouse on the beach to the cut to the miniature sized lighthouse in the bottle. All in all, this film definitely left a lasting impression.

8/10