TTSS needed a series. The movie wasn't enough. I know the original novel was written in a similar manner as the film was presented, but frankly, I'm a follower of Hemingway's style, although I do enjoy stream of consciousness such as Faulkner uses. He's far more comprehensible than say James Joyce and that novel of his "Ulysses." Perhaps TTSS was written in stream of consciousness? Of so, that'd make some sense--however, if so, then there should have been a narrator in the film speaking as such, similar to Paul Atreides in Lynch's adaptation of "Dune."