Where the Crawdads Sing

[Emile]

My wife is dying to see this new movie. It's playing this weekend at our rural small town restored theatre. With covid still lingering around I'm concerned about going. Thinking maybe an afternoon matinee might be when there be lower attendance. We have all our shots and booster, but would you feel safe enough to go?

Where the Crawdads Sing

Abandoned as a girl, Kya raised herself in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the marsh girl haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. However, when one of them is found dead, Kya immediately becomes the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal many secrets.

[Ocelot II]

1. I listened to the audiobook, thought it was a pretty good story,

though I guessed the outcome long before it was revealed. Don't know how accurately the movie follows the book, though.

[unc70]

2. Doesn't matter, book is so inaccurate

The author gets so much wrong it is nearly unreadable. She gets all that praise for describing the marshes, birds, etc., but none of it is authentic. Neither the geography, the shellfish, the people, and the WEATHER! The hurricanes, starting with Hazel, wiped out almost everything that was on the water.

The movie was filmed on the Gulf because nowhere in NC matched the descriptions.

[Ocelot II]

3. Interesting - I'm not familiar with the area so I wouldn't have caught the inaccuracies,

but I did think it sounded more like the deep South than what little I know of NC. Wonder why the author didn't do better research on matters she described in such detail. I've wondered this about other stories and tv shows - like the ones supposedly set in my home state, Minnesota, showing big mountains in the background. We have no mountains except for an ancient, worn-down range that is more accurately described as a row of hills. Are authors and producers so lazy that they can't be bothered to research the settings of their stories?

[werdna]

4. Prsonally, no. However. . .

. . . is there a drive-in theater nearby?

[jimfields33]

5. Six of us went to see it last week.

It was good. I wasn’t expecting much but I actually enjoyed it: go and have a good time.

[Callalily]

6. I read the book quite some time ago,

and really enjoyed it. I wouldn't mind seeing the movie too.

[avebury]

7. I liked the movie. I have an AMC Stubs membership

so I do at least once or twice a week. I have been taking advantage of it more during the heat. There have been a lot of good movies out there.

[Thtwudbeme]

8. I am from NC- and I think your name is interesting! My great great grandfather

was one of the first families to settle in NC- and his name was Emile.

Did the author get much wrong about NC? Yes- but- it's a good story, and I loved the book. There ARE marshes and swamps in NC.

[Emile]

9. Emile is a French name. My grandfather was Dutch

and my grandmother was French. It was my father's middle name and that's what he named me. Yes it's an old name that you rarely hear.

[Thtwudbeme]

10. My family was French

And, I hope this makes you laugh--- but I very well remember my great grandmother talking about Emile so much that when my sister and I were little, she named her foster duckling "Emile."