"The Commitments"

“The commitments” is a very diverting story of how a band was formed and dissolved. I must say that I am a big fun of movies, so I enjoyed watching the movie in the class. I believe that the movie was more like a musical because it focuses much of the time in songs and in The Commitment’s gigs. I think that the movie emphasize too much about the music, and as the same time it misses parts that are essential to know more about the characters and their development in the story. When I watched the movie I could realized that I imagined most of the scenes and the characters were very similar as I thought.
Reading the story of “The Commitments” was very fun. I can’t think why I enjoyed more reading the story than watching the movie. Maybe it is because I enjoyed the story and the developments of the characters through the story.
In general the movie was pretty similar as the story in the book but we can also notice some differences. Most of the differences are at the beginning and at the end of the story. The most important difference is when at the end of the movie, “The Commitments” were totally dissolved and in the book Jimmy tried to reform the group. We can also identify that the way that the story is told is different. The story is told most of the time by a narrator and in the movie the story is told by Jimmy as the most important character.
To conclude, I must say that I prefer reading the book rather watching the movie. Commonly I prefer watching movies than reading books but in this instance, I can truly say that I loved this story because I felt that I used my imagination and I could prove it when I watched the movie.
I recommend “The Commitments” and also to make this kind of activities because we can practice through three of the most important skills, reading, listening and writing. I really enjoyed this activity. I think that it is a good idea to have this kinds of test where most of our abilities, in our second language, are evaluated.