I read the book first. And even though the book wasn't that great, they managed to make the movie even worse. The book had a lot of flaws, but being cliche was not one of them. The movie was pretty much as cliche as a cliche dystopian scifi movie can be.

The acting was not great, the plot was totally predictable. The story was even simpler than in the book and nothing was explained well or at all (though the book had this issue, as well). It was so rushed and they tried to fit so much stuff to so little time. There was not one second of a breather, but action after action. They should have built up the world and the characters a lot more, like in the book. Instead, we jumped into an unknown world full of characters we knew or cared nothing about.

The world was a perfect example of a dystopian world, when you are told to imagine any generic dystopian world. It was literally the same "red is bad, so everything red is evil and blue is good" kind of authoritarian World Government stuff we have seen at least a million times already.

I don't understand why they had to change all the things, which were precisely the best things about the book. But no, and they even changed the bad bits, too, so we end up with a movie, that doesn't even resemble the book. Well, sure, some of the characters had same names, but that's about it.

I'm super sad to say that this is not worth a watch. I wanted to like this so much more, just like with the book, but I just can't. We need more Finnish scifi, and unfortunately this is not filling that gap.

This film is very boring and bland. DON'T! Waste your tine watching this. When watched in finnish the characters speak like robots NOT realistic speech. The story is also confusing and not exhilirating. There is a lot of stuff that happens that is not explained at all. Stupid. DON'T WATCH!! Main charachter is very boring and has no personality. The end is very bad like what the hell kind of ending is just stabbing her and leaving her there. Then spreads the video like huuuhh. Feels so rushed. And the whole tea thing is never explained. Why do they yap about it all the time if they never explain it. DO NOT WATCH 1/10.

Memory of water (Veden Vartija, Minnet av vatten) is what happens when you sneak some in of the high tech from for example movies like Blade Runner or. Hunger Games, mix it with the political oppression of 1984 but refined from 40 years of tyranny, and then place it all in living conditions looking somewhat contemporary to the Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon Sotilas) movies.

Or just everyday countryside for some, except the complete lack of anything living beyond humans. No animals, no plants, no water. Only dust and ash.

Memory of water brings up thoughts and questions on important topics that some of us normally take for granted, like freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and the always available water.

I think this was a great movie. Both in the technical and visual aspects, but most of all of course for the story. Though I did feel it was slightly different from the book, both are great in their own ways, but they are just not the same.