The incredibly dry whimsy of the book (great book) didn't translate all that well for this movie version, and I think it's honestly because the two actors aren't right for their roles - great actors, just not for these roles.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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