The Invisible
Man—I watched this movie and was surprised to find that I preferred the book
version a hundred times over. The movie and the book are totally different;
nothing from the book is in the movie, except for the title.
The movie had
some twists, which only made the whole experience worse. Horrible writing is
the main challenge of this movie.
If you decide to
look at the movie as a whole, it just doesn’t make any sense.
Griffin is
obsessed with a girl, and when she runs away from him, he decides to fake his
death to get her back. (At the end of the movie, you kind of realize that was
the whole purpose of this weird plan.) He leaves her millions of dollars so she
can be comfortable and forget about him, then turns himself invisible and
starts stalking her. What’s the point of this?
He gives her the
money, and within less than a week, he starts hunting her. What’s the point of
leaving her the money?
He aims to make
her seem insane and get her locked up, but how is that supposed to make her run
back into his arms?
How does his invisibility and stalking her while invisible connect to him getting her back? If he wanted to kill her, he had all the time in the world to do so. So, the point of being invisible is to stalk her without her knowing—so where does the hurting and causing her pain fit into this? The idea of him going invisible just to stalk her feels like something out of Looney Tunes.
Unlike the book,
where Griffin used chemistry to become invisible, in this movie (set in modern
times), Griffin achieves invisibility through physics. I won’t say more so as
not to spoil the movie.
I’ve been
fortunate to have read the book, listened to the BBC audio play, and watched
the old BBC series. Each one stayed true to the book’s portrayal of Griffin as
a criminally insane psychopath who wants to be the only person who is
invisible. The whole book is about him trying to figure out how to become
visible again.
H.G. Wells’ The
Invisible Man was well-written, easy to follow, and you can understand why
Griffin was the way he was. This movie did not do justice to the book at all.
That being said, Elizabeth Moss was magnificent in this movie. She’s become an
actor to watch whenever her name is attached to something.
The movie had an
early digital release, but Universal Pictures has already made millions from
it. It was made with a $7 million budget and, as of now, has grossed over $123
million at the global box office.
The movie may be
classified as good if you refuse to look at it holistically. But if you decide
to consider the big picture, it just doesn’t make any sense.
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