I admit, a thousand readers have a thousand "Norwegian Woods", but Naoko's old-fashioned, Watanabe's hollow, and Midori's dullness, I have to say that I still regret it.
I have serious doubts about the director's ability to select materials and focus. In my mind, the movie might start with Naoko's back, Watanabe walking behind her, keeping a distance of one meter, staring at Naoko's small earlobe, gently brushing the loose hair with his hand to bring it back together it is good. However, the movie starts directly from Watanabe, Naoko and Kiyuki when they were 17 years old. The introduction of the three of them was overwritten, and Kiyuki committed suicide before he could see them clearly.
Due to the lack of background on Kiyuki and Naoko, it just means that they grew up and ignores the history of suicide in Naoko's family, the shadow of Naoko's sister's suicide on childhood Naoko, and the closed relationship between Naoko and Kiyuki, without even mentioning To, they are through Watanabe as a bridge to the outside world. Therefore, it is inevitable that the audience can't understand why Naoko is so dependent on Watanabe, and he is always apologetic. And Naoko became a crazy girl who was just immersed in the shadow of her ex-boyfriend's suicide.
Speaking of Midori, I am deeply sorry. Compared with Naoko, I prefer Midoko's strength and courage to love and hate. The first scene where Midori appeared was right, but when I saw her hesitant eyes and her slow pace, the always chirping bird-like Midori in my mind was disillusioned. In the most exciting part in my memory, Midori cooks Kansai-style meals for Watanabe at home, and downstairs is the Kobayashi Bookstore. In the movie, Midori did not talk about the love of her parents that she lacked, and did not talk about how she saved the money for underwear and bought a whole set of kitchen utensils. The cute and strong Midori who desperately needs to be loved has turned into a wayward and dirty girl. The movie didn't even show how they were standing on the balcony watching the fire that happened nearby that evening, so there was no black smoke billowing, and the audience wouldn't know that even if the fire came over, they wouldn't run. What should have been a fiery, long kiss by the fire turned into a rainy, tedious affair.
In this way, the characters become crazy, the story becomes inexplicable, and the sex scene, a major feature of the book, becomes boring. I still remember in the book, one night when Watanabe arrived at the nursing home, Naoko came to Watanabe in the middle of the night and slowly took off his clothes. Against the moonlight, Watanabe looked directly at Naoko's white and clear body, the shadow of the lower body was rough and grainy, and the world began to become unreal. And the sex scenes in the movie, even the screams are empty.
If all of Murakami's novels were changed into movies, "Norwegian Wood" should be the easiest one, but such a reminiscence has become incomprehensible. And the rhythm of Haruki Murakami has disappeared.
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