It's hard for anyone to juxtapose these three things like me. It may also be difficult for anyone to understand. But to me, it's so important. From when I was fourteen until now.
Let's talk about "Norwegian Woods". This became the best record of my sexual enlightenment, and the confusion and thinking that accompanied my entire youth. In other words, Murakami recorded my thoughts, completely overlapping, without the slightest discrepancy. There is love, there is life, there is friendship, there is life and death.
After reading this book for so many years, I can even recite it. The film is also beautifully shot, with heavy rain in summer, green grass blown by the wind, pure white and quiet snow, and rolling mountains. It is completely in line with the audience's imagination of youth and love. The soft female voice sings Isn't it a good norwegian wood in the film.
I always think that Murakami's books (not just this one) highlight a theme: loneliness. In this movie, Kenichi Matsuyama's elongated upper lip, Rinko Kikuchi's too heavy eyeliner, and Kiko Mizuhara's pretentious liveliness do not reflect this. However I am not disappointed. It has its paused rhythms and voids.
Before watching this movie, even after reading the original book for so many years, I still didn't understand Watanabe's love for Naoko. There is no reason and no passing. And now I understand.
It is a full and careful attempt at young love. Not reservation, not loneliness. After losing the heroine, the disillusionment exists, but it is stronger and more real.
Watanabe in Murakami's writings is about 20 years old, but every gesture has the heaviness of adulthood, without the liveliness and emptiness of youth. Watanabe of Kenichi Matsuyama is only 20 years old, and there is nothing else but young.
I've seen the stills before, and I'm looking forward to Rinko Kikuchi. She certainly lived up to me and became one of the few bright spots in the movie.
The film is rough and too general. However, the interpretation of the neutrality of love in the original book has not fallen at all.
The screenwriter is good. The director is rubbish.
The movie has a line that is not in the original book: "Finding love is an important thing." Very not Murakami's style, but I like it.
Not good. However, I still recommended it to a few friends. I believe they will know as much as I do.
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