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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Readers reply: which are more like life, novels or films?

Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson in The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Unknowable thoughts? Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel The Comfort of Strangers, directed by Paul Schrader, 1990. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy

Most films are limited in how they display thought – often just through the facial expressions and actions of actors. Most novels, though, describe in great detail characters’ inner thoughts. So films, in a way, are more mysterious, because you don’t exactly know what people are thinking. So doesn’t that make them in fact more realistic? Ash Ahmed, by email

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