His things always make people calm down, think about other things, think about life, and think about what we really care about.
What Watanabe really cares about is not what the realists in this world care about: life, money, power.
What he cares about, maybe he can't tell himself, but he knows that he doesn't care about it.
Therefore, in his works, the protagonist kills people like hemp, and he doesn't care about his own life. In Jen's words: I am ready to die. The divination old man in CB also said: Don't be afraid of death! When you are afraid of it, it will approach you faster than light; if you are not afraid of it, it will be meekly by your side. (Watanabe sometimes expresses it quite directly) Not being bound by death may be what Watanabe wants to convey.
For money, Watanabe's protagonist has no concept. Just enough to eat. money = food. It's that simple. Rich guys are twisted. And the other is a slave to money because of helplessness, Watanabe is sympathetic.
As for rights, Watanabe's work is not worth mentioning. It seems that money = power. In contemporary times, it is barely sensible.
Watanabe also attaches great importance to women. After the pleasure of the body is left behind the emptiness of the spirit. Body and spirit are separate. But Watanabe is still a relatively conservative person, and his heroine has not yet sold her body.
The protagonist is never the strongest. In Watanabe's words, there is no strongest saying: there are people outside people.
Another key word in Watanabe's works: travel. He emphasized that people must be on the go. The wind said: It would be nice if this journey never ended. Perhaps, in Watanabe's view, the end of a journey means at least the end of a spiritual life. Therefore, everyone in CB is scattered means death. Same in SC. Jen said: I travel for what I am after, but I don't know what I am after. Maybe just running away. . . It is a true portrayal of Watanabe's heart.
Watanabe also emphasized: to be in harmony with nature, to perceive with the body. That might mean developing some other senses, including ones we don't know about ourselves. (Watanabe's work always has a bit of mysticism)
His works are so real and so empty. Absurd but reasonable.
The difference is that
the answer that Watanabe did not find in CB is found in SC. What
he is looking for is: a
companion.
. . . .
Moving.
Looking forward to his future works.
No one is dead, everyone is alive, maybe this is the difference between CB and SC, hehe
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