Dorfman's Death and the Maiden and Polanski's adaptation of the same name

After reading Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden and watching Roman Polanski's cinematic adaptation of this play, reflect upon the textual and cinematic similarities and differences, and then compare your observations and analyses to Moshen Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Mira Nair's cinematic adaptation of that novel. What do these works and their adaptations tell us about literature and film?

Feel free, as well, to further elaborate upon any of those subjects broached in our class discussion on Thursday. Remember, too, to comment on a classmate's blog post.