Rie again

Johnathan 2022-03-18 09:01:09

I don't consider myself a Murakami fan, but I have seen every one of his works just because I like "Norwegian Wood", which is also his most normal long novel. Looking at his things is actually in a state of pure obscenity, basically splitting the personality into substantive plots, but it is too ambiguous and swaying. After all, Lin Shaohua contributed to this.
"Tony Takiya" is adapted from the short story of the same name. It basically captures the artistic conception of the original work, which is light, elegant, lonely, and procrastinating. However, part of the plot of Tony's father was deleted from the original work, but it was done without authorization. Added a part, but it didn't work. This is a lonely story. There are basically only narrations, few dialogues, and in the end it is a bit superfluous, but I already like the ending that is a little hopeful, although it destroys the artistic conception of the original work.
70 minutes is neither long nor short, and if it is longer, I guess I will not be able to hold on to it. Miyazawa Rie is still gorgeous, and I still like it.

ZT: Look, I didn't sit in the room and stare blankly at the four walls thinking. It's just that I'm more and more confused about what loneliness is all about. Does the big premise of loneliness must be built on others? Tony's father brings loneliness to Tony; Tony's wife takes loneliness away, but leaves loneliness when he dies. But is loneliness really that simple, it's all about someone else?

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Tony Takitani quotes

  • Narrator: In that place, the boundary between life and death...

    Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani: Was as slim as a single strand of hair.

  • Narrator: He found his home had been destroyed in the firebombing, and his parents and his only brother, lost to the same fate. In other words, he was then... utterly alone in the world.