Whether it be a Hollywood director or an art director, the fact of the matter is that the movie's opening needs to be able to capture the audience's attention immediately. This is due to the fact that a majority of the viewers will be teenagers and young adults. However, this is not to say that the opening cannot be true to the novel. The movie could possibly open up with Blue watching the site of Hannah's suicide. The strength of this introduction could be increased by the director attempting to also beautiful Hannah in this moment. The novel is essentially Blue making an attempt to make sense of her life story. By immediately showing one of the events that would eventually help push Blue to write her life story, the movie is readily able to move into the movie while readily engaged.

There is a lot of information that Blue feeds to the reader within the first section of the book at a nonstop pace. I feel that by finding a way to match up the voiceover of Blue's most vivid statements along with the most powerful imagery. I imagine the flow from thought to through working similar to the early parts of the film "Amelie" where her upbringing is slowly given to us short scene by short scene with the narrator there to give commentary. Blue has a way of making her past feel mysterious and enticing. She also does not seem to remember her mother very clearly. I believe this could allow the director to play with how he presents Blue's storytelling. If Blue cannot recall exactly what her mother looked like even though she has seen pictures, the mother should appear mysterious to the viewer as well.

Since film is generally a visual medium, voiceover should obviously never prevail over what we see. However, Blue's ability to describe things the way she does is an essential part of her character. Her way of recognizing situations and putting them into perspective only help reflect the novel's story about a young woman who is trying to piece together her life story into something that makes sense as a whole. I imagine the voice over's place in the movie similar to how it worked in the film "Taxi Driver". It gives the viewer a perspective on how the character sees the world but at no time overrides the power of the visuals. It accompanies them acting as another tool in creating the film as a whole work.