![]() ![]() Thompson is absent from this adaptation, while it's ironically the main selling point of the film. This happens because of a directorial choice to rely on the actor's game more than it should have. Eerily enough, the adaptation carries this spirit of not-doing-enough-to-be-interesting. ![]() As the unknown writer he was back then, this doesn't cut it and back then it was also kind of offensive. While it makes complete sense to have it published now as Thompson is an established figure and that THE RUM DIARY is an interesting early manifestations of his battlehorse themes, you have to put this in perspective. One thing you have to know about THE RUM DIARY, is that it was Thompson's second attempt at writing fiction and pretty much its last, since it got rejected many, many times and not published until 1998. ![]()
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