Novels and Movies

After watching the movie, looking for other people's film reviews, and looking for the original book to read, Oshima Nagisa combined the three relatively scattered stories in the original book into one. The story of the original book is drawn from the re-meeting of "me" and Lawrence five years after the war to recall the experience in the Japanese prisoner of war camp. The second part is about Selins, which is the main part of the novel and the origin of the basic structure of the film. His story is mainly composed of two fragments, one is the story of him and his brother, which is derived from his diary. The other, of course, is the story of him and Yonoi, narrated by what "I" saw and heard. The third part is Lawrence's romantic encounter in Singapore, which occupies less space.
After reading the novel, you will find answers to many things you don't understand in the movie. For example, what does the last kiss represent, the original tearing book has already laid the foreshadowing. I read a movie review before, and said why Yonoi liked Selins and saved him. The author thinks it is because Yunoi loves Selins's bravery. Loving you is equal to loving yourself. Selins is Yunoi's ideal self. I don't agree with the author's first part, but agree with his second part. In the novel, Lawrence denied that it was because of Serlings' bravery and manhood that Noi saved him, although this was the verbal reason for Noi to save him. , but Lawrence was sure it was just an excuse. There is also the ending with Noi. He was executed in the movie, but in the novel he did not die, but returned to Japan after the war. Lawrence saw him in a prisoner of war camp. He thought he could not return to Japan, so he asked Lawrence to help him When he brought something back to Japan, at first he was reluctant to tell what it was. Later, Lawrence said that he would not help if he didn’t tell what it was. Yunoi had to tell him that it was Selins’ hair, but begged him to hide it from himself. . After returning to Japan with Noi, Lawrence sent him his hair as promised, and soon wrote to Noi to express his thanks, telling him where he had put Selins' hair, and a little poem
In the spring ,
Obeying the August spirits
I went to fight the enemy
In the Fall,
Returning I beg spirits,
To receive also the enemy
this might be seen as the embodiment of the film's gist

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