The Evil

The book Evil is based on Jan Guillou's own experiences in the 50's in boarding school. An amazing novel about the suffering and revenge - which is painted not as good in the film. But a novel that also deals with violence in theory and practice. Everything from how to fight, technically, to the psychological and moral doubts as Erik constantly struggling with.

The book is about a young guy Eric. One must follow him from his time with a father who is mentally ill and beat him every night.

Because of their poor behavior in secondary school must Erik begin at boarding school. There, he is tormented by the older students because he refuses to submit, by the way of peer education. Erik does not give up but continue their feud against the older students, and will also have a good friend in the book, his roommate Pierre.

Evil and violence, rarely make a strong impression. Maybe that's why it was followed by the desire for peace and tolerance. Evil is a book about all of the above, it discusses domestic violence, a son who is beaten by his father and violence as a means to power is the most important setting. The main character, Erik has to handle both, and find a way to win over them and over their bully with or without the use of force itself. Guillou send powerful messages through this captivating book, which is worth a read for their inspiring discussions alone. They stood at the side, following the fight, feel his pain, feel loss, and learn from and benefit from the intelligent and hopeful discussion Erik has been with his friend, opening its eyes to a world where violence or major component is not the strongest force.

The book is more detailed, but in this case, absent a large amount of Erik's feelings and hatred against the father. The book describes this in a very profound way, which makes it all the more mentally and nasty.

In the film, they have skipped a couple of important small details, such as in the movie, there is less violence than in the book, then, for example, Erik waives challenge in the box and get the rat, in the book he will be ready in the box for fighting, while in film he fegar out. You may not see when Eric goes out with a mask over his face, striking the Council members. And the book is the "father" Eric's real father, but the film is his stepfather. Even that Erik's younger brother was not in the movie was a disappointment, when he was the man would get angry and knowing that he was spoiled and not Eric. All occurrences jumped around a bit in the film. Things and events taken from the book the movie was a great factor. But I also believe that the film would become quite long if you were to have included everything, and it had made the film boring.