Balzac Movie vs. Book

I think that the movie had a very different ending than that of the book. Ma and Luo end up becoming what they had wanted to be all along instead of being doomed to reeducation for the rest of their lives. Ma became a dentist, while Luo became a violinist and even creates a quartet in France. Both are quite well-off. The movie also gives us an idea of how the people felt when the Yantze was dammed up to create electricity for China. The book, on the other hand leaves us with Ma and Luo being drunk which is similar to the movie in the aspect that they were drinking, but in the book, they were not watching a documentary that Ma had made of the Phoenix Mountain, but rather burning all their books. Both the movie and the book, however, ended with the same scene, with the two boys running after the Little Seamstress. Also, they both ended with the same quote from the Little Seamstress, about the value of a woman's beauty. Then there was a short clip at the end which was of Ma playing the violin while Luo read to the Little Seamstress, but they were underwater. This might be suggesting that the flooding of the mountain, had erased all the traces of their reeducation, except for in their minds, where the memories and emotions would always remain.