Point of View

When written works are transferred to film many things can happen. It can help the reader visualize what was going on the story. Another outcome is that it can ruin a piece of work with bad acting when you thought was well written. In the case of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” it offers a reinforcement of the point of view. When reading the story the reader understands what is going on but the movie added things like facial features and other subtleties such as that. I don’t always like movie versions of books but I enjoyed actually seeing the characters and seeing just exactly what Phoenix was going through. For one you see just how long and difficult the journey was for her to make. This helps add to the image of her being a phoenix rising to go do this journey whenever her grandson needs the medicine. The film version in my opinion does not lose anything because it did not try to do a whole lot of extra things. It basically just the same story while just giving you a visual of what is happening. Overall it was probably a good idea to make the story into a movie. I don’t know if it was exactly like the other saw it but it couldn’t possibly be much different than it was portrayed.