Granted people still died, but it did not seem to impact the characters quite as heavily as the deaths in the novel did. As the film showed the wreckage of Egg and the mother’s plane there was a voice over of the iconic line of, “Sorrow floats”. And that single line is the second to last time the movie mentions dear Sorrow, either the dog or what he stands for. The very last time sorrow is mentioned John and Win Berry are outside the Viennese Opera, and John in contemplating Franny. It is then that he decides that both sorrow and love float. The bomb happens, and the family flies back to America. Lily commits suicide. At this point in the book the phrase, “Sorrow floats” is worked into nearly every chapter opening, middle and ending. Yet the movie simply never mentions Sorrow after Vienna, almost as if he was left floating over
Granted people still died, but it did not seem to impact the characters quite as heavily as the deaths in the novel did. As the film showed the wreckage of Egg and the mother’s plane there was a voice over of the iconic line of, “Sorrow floats”. And that single line is the second to last time the movie mentions dear Sorrow, either the dog or what he stands for. The very last time sorrow is mentioned John and Win Berry are outside the Viennese Opera, and John in contemplating Franny. It is then that he decides that both sorrow and love float. The bomb happens, and the family flies back to America. Lily commits suicide. At this point in the book the phrase, “Sorrow floats” is worked into nearly every chapter opening, middle and ending. Yet the movie simply never mentions Sorrow after Vienna, almost as if he was left floating over