Tony's Silent Loneliness

Westley 2022-03-20 09:02:58

Haruki Murakami's original story is actually very short,
and Murakami's storytelling style always maintains a very strange sense of distance:
the distance between the reader and the protagonist of the story is deliberately elongated, showing an indifferent tone; moreover
, the protagonist is often not Ordinary people, such as Sheep Man, Ice Man, Tony,
but the distance between the protagonist who is different from ordinary people and ordinary people is unexpectedly short.

But some people say that young literary and artistic people love Murakami.

The music, video images and the whole story all share an atmosphere called loneliness.
In other words, Tony (and Tony's story) was originally based on "loneliness".

Many times the camera takes close-up shots of parts of people and objects,
such as the back of the car, the material of clothes, and
fills the whole picture
with part of the object, as if the whole movie reflects Tony's abnormal character: good at focusing on Tiny, fine structures.

The rhythm of the film editing is very close to the original writing style.
Tony and Tony's father's life history, past and future events are
captured one by one
. The death of his wife is presented lightly,
faithfully presenting the strange sense of distance unique to Murakami.

The picture is very clean, the soundtrack is sad and low,
watching the whole movie is almost like reading Murakami's "Tony Takiya".

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Extended Reading
  • Jerrod 2022-03-22 09:02:52

    7.5 points. # "Tony Takiya" adapted from the novel by Haruki Murakami of China Film Archive, very Murakami. Everyone's deep loneliness, the irreconcilable gap between people, the personal nature that cannot be changed because of any intimacy, seems to be only pretending to be in life, pretending to be very self. So sad, so sad. The film is very special and very artistic. Deliberate and beautiful composition, tone, photography, large voiceovers, and Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack throughout the film. Rie Miyazawa, who played the two roles, is so beautiful that she has fallen in love. The only shortcoming that I can't stand, it doesn't look like a movie, is the image of Murakami's novel.

  • Megane 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    If Nishijima could read all of Murakami's novels once and then put out a CD~

Tony Takitani quotes

  • 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.

  • Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani: She was like a bird taking flight for a distant land...