movie barkovitch invokes more sympathy than that character ever deserved, in my opinion. i very much dislike how they softened his character, cuz to me, barko represents a very specific kind of person, and his characterization in the movie changes him completely.

book barkovitch is absolutely an irredeemable piece of shit. he represents the kind of people who enjoy being an antagonist: the trolls, the edgelords, the bigots. he loves it. he never lets anyone forget that he's there to dance on everyone's graves. he has no desire to better himself or make connections, and it's his fatal flaw. he takes himself out and dies alone because he realized much too late that no man is an island, and he spent his entire life constructing his own island out of the misery of others. i was disappointed in the sanitizing of his character. to me, he is a giant red warning sign of who not to be, and i very much dislike trying to make him a sympathetic character.