I re-read the story that "Away From Her" is based on (hence the Alzheimer's-metaphorical photograph), and, though I said in yesterday's post that Polley hadn't changed much about the story from Munro's original, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", it turns out she did. Not in any bad way, mind you. She just changed its perspective, really. In Munro's original, the story is mostly about Grant, the husband of Fiona (who is the focus of Polley's movie) and what he goes through as Fiona slides away from him into Alzheimer's. Polley made some subtle changes of emphasis and detail that made it her own (Polley's, that is) story. Which, actually, is pretty nifty. We already had the story from Grant's perspective, so swinging things around to Fiona's point of view was a logical choice. And she did it, like I said, without doing any damage at all to Munro's version.