So, for the first half of the movie, it followed the book surprisingly well. They kept all the names (though they did give the narrator a new one, that's understandable.) They even used some direct quoting...
On the other hand, the end was certainly different. Unfortunately, KC won't know what I'm talking about because she was a JERK and went to go look at COLLEGES. But, at any rate, the movie seems to support the idea that the narrator is not insane. They did have to take a stance, I suppose, because it's much harder to portray that sort of muddled situation when the audience is made into witnesses...
Still, she wasn't even holding Miles when he died! There's no possible way that she could have been smothering him. Thus, the children must have been possessed--how else did Miles just fall over and die?
The other difference was that there was a different emphasis when it came to the "disturbing" relationships. That is, there was less focus on possible homosexuality--important because of the author's own situation--and more focus on what happened between Mrs Jessel and Quint. ... and stuff between the governess and Miles.
Why choose to so outright hint at dirty things between Jessel and Quint but ignore poor Miles's situation? I suppose it was the time... but they didn't shy away from heterosexual badness...
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