I didn't mean to say that the director's choice of the book was out of character or that choosing the book was "ill conceived". It's the resulting adaptation that's "ill conceived": I may have not said this clearly.
I think there are things in the book that keep it from seeming the conventional serial slasher murder mystery, but the movie falls back into the stereotype, despite the great effort to make it visually unique, etc. Point of view deviates from the "portrait of a lady". There are those of us, by the way, who think that, with the present example in mind, Ms. Campion has been too hard on her women and ought to give them a break.
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