Balzac book and movie

I liked how the movie one flashed into the the real time life, showing what they were doing now. In the book it ended where the Little Seamstress left the village and Luo weren't able to stop her, but the movie, well it ended in with that sad good bye but the way they led it to that was from Luo and Ma watching video during the real time, which really sounded so story like, and more interesting. It was nice to see Luo being married and Ma being single, and still trying to find the Little Seamtress. Overall, I was more interested in the movie than the book, not saying book was bad, just that movie pulled me more into the story than the book.