Monday, September 21, 2009

Movie Mondays

Snow Falling on Cedars

Book, 1995 by David Guterson

This is the kind of book where you can smell and hear and see the fictional world the writer has created, so palpably does the atmosphere come through. Set on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound, in Washington, where everyone is either a fisherman or a berry farmer, the story is nominally about a murder trial. But since it's set in the 1950s, lingering memories of World War II, internment camps and racism helps fuel suspicion of a Japanese-American fisherman, a lifelong resident of the islands. It's a great story, but the primary pleasure of the book is Guterson's renderings of the people and the place.

Movie, 1999 directed by Scott Hicks

Features: Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh

Tagline: First loves last. Forever.

Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography Oscar

Did you know? Many of the extras in the scene where the Japanese are sent to internment camps were Japanese-Americans who had actually been sent to the camps in the 1940s.

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