
Again, I’m not a fan of the book (and that’s because I haven’t read the book), but some of my friends told me that it’s a good novel and they were so excited to see it as a movie. But, this part is always tricky: if they were not careful enough, it will end up as a heart-break. And adapting it to a film will surely be a specific excitement for its fans. The novel had now reached its 25th print, proving that many people like it. It's easy, because the screenwriter and the novel author is the same person, Donny Dhirgantoro.


The novel always precede the film, of course, and film producers tend to adapt only best-selling novels.

Sometimes there is this kind of problem for me, seeing an adapted-from-novel film, that I need to carefully judge if the satisfaction (or disappointment) I got after watching the film is an achievement (or failure) of the filmmaker who brought the written story to screen or a success (or luck) of the author of the novel who wrote such a wonderful (or trashy) story.
