Many people think that "Tony Waterfall" is the best written by Murakami Short stories, more than anything. As for his preference for music, "Tony Waterfall" is like the jazz and blues erratic, inadvertently but in a smooth way to narrate, people are naturally unpredictable.
It must be a headache to summarize "Tony Waterfall Valley". There are too many unknown plots that cannot be deleted. However, if I really want to summarize it in words, I find that the words and sentences are so poor that the essence and breath of the article are so lacking. There is nothing, and all the feelings and aftertastes have become dead branches and leaves. Once the smooth narrative is edited and pieced together, it becomes a smooth jazz blues inserted into the murmur electronic, the degree of incomprehension is not reduced, but the beauty is gone.
So if I really want to say it, I can simply describe it as Tony Takitani from childhood to middle age, from accustomed to loneliness to fear of loneliness and then to the pursuit of loneliness. There is no need to deliberately repeat the storyline, and there is no need to extract and analyze how delicate and ingenious the description is. This is a light, longitudinal reading, as if you have read it and then seem to have read nothing, as if you have realized it and seem to have nothing at all. I realized that it is difficult to distinguish whether the article imposes feelings in my heart, or whether the feelings are integrated into the narrative and then disappear, leaving empty and melancholy in my heart.
"Tony Waterfall Valley" from text to movie to text. The emotional expression of the movie is too strong, but after watching it, I feel that the original text is like a brief introduction to the movie. However, from the aesthetics of the film, the loneliness of this film has a sharpness that directly hits the heart. Although it is not as light as the original text, it is not hypocritical or overly lyrical. shock. The whole film runs through the sad tune of Sakamoto Ryuichi, which sounds so lonely. Tony's life is flattened into a long piece of paper, and it looks like a parallel arrangement of rooms connected by doors. After the camera moves parallel to a black wall, there is another silhouette of life. The characters are silent, there are few dialogues and confessions, the narrative of the story is mostly narration, and the colors are also very old and gray, eliminating most of the light that fades like a black and white film, and the sense of loneliness is rendered clean and ethereal in this extremely low saturation tone. Spotless. The wife's casting is very delicate and beautiful, a slender woman with slender feet, wearing a brocade dress is really like "a bird rushing to the distance, but it has its own wind", there are few detailed facial engravings in the camera lens, back view, foot in walking The silhouette of the woman and the side in the dark, the loneliness is shrouded in mist, and the beauty of the woman is exuded incisively and vividly. At the end of the film, Tony is curled up in the room where his wife's size 7 clothes and his father's jazz discs were piled up. Of course, after everything has been dealt with, the walls are empty. For example, in the first part of the film, his father is curled up in a prison in the ocean in Shanghai. The figure is probably lonely. in this way.
Perhaps the name determines the fate. The name that my father adopted at will, which is incompatible with the Japanese blood-Tony Water Valley is destined to stand in the open world all his life. When I was young, I couldn't make decent friends because of my name, and the roles of father and son were very different, so that both father and son were used to getting along with loneliness. After he was a senior, he resigned as a nanny and lived alone. Tony closed himself in the room and indulged in painting. And his paintings are more like exquisite reproductions of real objects, "more realistic than real objects", and like him alone and without thoughts and feelings, those ideological works, in his opinion, are just some random patchwork. is ugly. In short, Tony was accustomed to loneliness since he was young. However, after meeting his well-dressed wife, he was terrified by the loneliness in the first half of his life that he hadn't noticed at all, and the loneliness attacked him, so much so that he thought that if his proposal could not be accepted, there would be nothing left. The only thing left is death, so that even if it is three months after marriage, it is necessary to repeatedly confirm the existence of his wife to be at ease. The loneliness he used to before has become the source of fear, and the fear of the return of loneliness has become the shackles of the soul. My wife is obsessed with clothes to the point of madness. She can't help buying a large number of extravagant clothes, so that the wardrobe is too late to order, so she can only use the empty room as a wardrobe. Only through material desire to fill. Tony once roughly estimated the number of his wife's clothes and found that his wife could not wear so many clothes until she died, so he persuaded his wife to restrain her desire to buy. The wife loved Tony and appreciated his point of view. He tried to restrain himself, and even returned the newly bought clothes by car. The original store, but when I returned home and waited for the traffic light, I was thinking about the texture and design of those clothes, and I was in a trance and had a car accident, leaving only a room of size 7 clothes. Three months later, my father also passed away, leaving behind a pile of old jazz records. Tony returned to a person's life again. After the death of a person, all the relics became a burden. Tony felt in his wife's cloakroom that the soul and shadow of his wife remained on every piece of clothing. Compared with indulging in the irreversible pain in reality , the fear of loneliness has become the best salvation. He sold all his wife's clothes and his father's discs and returned to loneliness.
When I read the text, Wabi wrote about his father Saburo Takitani, and now I think about his father's return to the country after the war, all his family members bereaved, and the past of nothing is not a hint of Tony's future alone. This is a portrayal of overlapping loneliness. Father huddled in the ocean prison and looked down on life and death and Tony looked down on the bereaved. Why not huddle up in an empty room after cleaning up the relics.
After reading it for the first time, it was hard to calm down. After reading the movie, I found that there was no trace of sadness in Murakami's writing. This is just a calm and objective story of loneliness. According to common sense, loneliness is equal to sadness. It's just a habit of thinking and self-consciousness that has been cultivated for a long time. Loneliness is like life and death, how can it be so simple to be judged by sadness? Murakami once said, "Death is not the opposite of life, but exists as a part of life." How can loneliness be just hell and suffering? This stage of loneliness is not a kind of redemption and longing. People and empty houses, and confinement, anti-locking, and preaching everything that free people hate. Hasn't man ever locked himself in an empty house for a moment and locked the door to free himself and struggle? The loneliness is like this, and the inexplicable sadness is nothing more than that empty mirror, and there is no one around.
I understood Murakami for the first time from "Tony Waterfall Valley", and I felt stupid when I wanted to come here. People's reading is always used to set the tone from common sense and the writer's hints. People always like to ponder over those sentimental phrases just because they are easy to understand and suitable for self-pity for one's life experience. The pretentious and sentimental literature is more like emotional deception. I like Murakami's blandness more and more. He treats all feelings as descriptions rather than sensationalism and exaggeration. Feelings are written as memoirs rather than devious and euphemistically transformed into poems. When I read it, it is always difficult to judge these words that are objective and without the author's feelings at all.
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