The Kidnapper Book Vs Book Analysis

Register to read the introduction… The book is very repetitive; the movie pushes you through the story swiftly, still getting the valid points across. Ida, Victor’s mother isn’t the greatest role model for a child to have. She is a junkie, criminal, and we later find out a kidnapper. (Throughout the story we see her kidnapping victor from his foster families, but the big surprise doesn’t come until the end when we find out that Victor isn’t even her child. She stole him out of a stroller in Waterloo, Iowa when he was a baby. ) Needless to say, Ida’s character was perfectly portrayed as imagined from the book in the movie. Paige Marshall, the “doctor” who we find out was really a patient the whole time played a great “under cover nut,” in the movie and in the book. You really would not have been able to pin her out as a patient until you saw or read her bracelet drop. Denny, Victor’s best friend and fellow sex addict, isn’t as hardcore in the movie as he is in the book, yet blends right into the story line without causing so much chaos. Personally I don’t feel like there was as much reference to sexual relations or contact between actual people in the movie, as there was jam packed into the book. Although we do see it in Victor’s visions of almost every woman he sees, young or old, good looking or not so …show more content…
In the book we read about a news cast that draws all the people who have “saved” Victor from choking throughout his life to help him and Denny build Denny’s rock structure. When they all show up they discover that they all have been victims of Victor’s life long hoax. We also see evidence of these people’s existence throughout the book more than throughout the plot of the movie. The movie ends on a happier note with a reunion of Paige Marshall and Victor on an airplane hooking up. They gave the movie a happy ending rather than a realistic