Film has much more subversive potential than the novel. In film, characters act and react to one another, but you cannot see inside their heads. You do not know why they are doing what they are doing. You have only your senses to aid you, and the cinematographer can do a great deal to mute the things that really matter by burying them under layers of noise and spectacle and artifice. In a novel, it is difficult to hide the motivations of the protagonist, impossible to do so without calling attention to the fact that you are “pulling a Hemingway,” and even harder to escape the fact that the author must explicitly call out every detail, so that the astute reader