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The goodness of Haruki Murakami is not in the story, or even in the words, but in the kind of idle, long, dense, but irresistible atmosphere. This atmosphere is perhaps the closest thing to the essential state of life. In Murakami's writings, it is transformed into the character Rory's long-winded but strongly strange dialogue, and transformed into "a kind of elegant rap, a kind of restrained trickery" (Lin Shaohua). This makes it difficult for Murakami's work to be adapted into a real and exact cinematic image. Once it's real, that vibe can easily go away. In addition, the novel has had such a wide range of influences, the pressure and difficulty of Chen Yingying's adaptation of this work can be described as very great. When I saw this movie was made, I was scolded for being so disfigured, I almost couldn't bear it. Maybe everyone's requirements are too harsh? I finished watching this movie in a good mood even if it reproduced one or two points of the original. To be precise, it's not that Chen Yingying didn't reproduce Murakami's look, but he didn't want to reproduce that look at all. He simply changed this very "private" story written by Murakami into a different look. Every character becomes a little plausible.

Matsuyama Ken is a little too handsome for Watanabe. In my heart, Watanabe is a character who needs long-term relationship and understanding to discover its charm. Rather than a melancholy handsome man who makes one's heart sway at a glance. He doesn't like to talk that much, but when he opens his mouth, he is absolutely witty and casual. He is a smart person who is very alienated from his studies, fame and fortune, and power, but he can definitely do it if he wants to work hard. His face is the one that "looks at it for a long time and thinks it's okay to be with you". To be specific, Watanabe-kun is actually a Wang Xiaobo-style character. Even with such a face, he usually doesn't talk much, but in fact, a bag of bad water in his head is not easy to be knocked down. You think, if Wang Xiaobo looks like F4, wouldn't it be awkward? This is only a superficial problem. The most fundamental thing is that Watanabe in the movie is too weak, and his psychology is very fragile from beginning to end. The power of Watanabe-kun due to his alienation from the world is not shown. His feelings for Naoko are mixed with his feelings for Muyue, his youth, and his nostalgia for himself. At the same time there is a responsibility in it. As Naoko crumbled, Watanabe felt that he should get stronger. "I have no choice but to be strong." This is not shown enough in the movie. And Watanabe-kun's change from being nonchalant at first to trying to live a life despite being nonchalant is one of the things that deeply touched me.

Naoko's heart is like Sister Lin in A Dream of Red Mansions, full of resentment and sorrow. But Naoko is very forgiving, and she is very careful not to transmit her negative emotions to others. In the nursing home, when I was in the lowest mood, I couldn't say a complete sentence or write a letter. When Watanabe-kun went to see her, she also smiled, hugged her body and listened to Watanabe and Reiko talking, saying sorry and couldn't talk. , but I am very happy to hear you speak. Naoko's collapse in the movie came too quickly. And always twitching and crying. The director also omitted the experience of Naoko witnessing her sister hang herself in the room. The audience naturally feels incomprehensible disgust at Naoko's collapse and neuroticism.

Midori was symbolized in the movie as a lively and beautiful girl. In order to save money to buy a pot, she only wears a bra a month, she goes to the house of a female classmate in Chiba as a guest, and the time she spends in the aristocratic high school is all omitted. In fact, in her character and experience, there are similarities with Naoko, but she chose a different attitude. She will never admit defeat. She hates high school, so she must not lose. Instead, she insists on going to school every day, not being late, not leaving early, and going to school when she is sick. The end of this natural reluctance to admit defeat is the real reason why Midoriko is cheerful. That's what makes her so attractive.

Reiko's most important life experiences---Little finger suddenly can't move and can no longer be a pianist, her indecent relationship with a 13-year-old girl, her intimacy with Naoko in the nursing home... Chen Yingying will also omit. This makes Reiko's image very thin, and the last sentence "I regained my youthful feeling" after finishing the affair with Watanabe-kun is really shocking.

The same problem exists in Yongze and Hatsumi. Yongze is definitely a person who loves reading and has a very good taste in books. He and Watanabe first met because of their mutual love for The Great Gatsby. But Chen Yingying forced him to say "How beautiful life is, don't waste time in static books".

The whole movie turned "Norwegian Wood" into pure love. Reduce it to a love story. The biggest theme of this novel is actually death, the love and sex, passion and desire in it, and the living state of the characters in it are only extended under this theme. "Death does not exist as the opposite of life, but as a part of life." The director wants to make it into a love triangle, and it is of course possible to do such purification. After all, the film is a re-creation. But the problem is that the director did not completely make it a pure love film, and he seems to want to take it along and explore the confused life. In the end, the whole film looks weird, Watanabe is not Watanabe, but there is Watanabe's shadow, Midori is not Midori, but there is Midori's shadow. In the end, this film is neither Chen Yingying nor Murakami Haruki. It is better to learn from Zhang Yimou and change this "central idea" completely. Although there are also some erotic descriptions in the original novel of Love of the Hawthorn Tree, for example, it is written that the third child and Jingqiu had erections when they were lying together, and when they crossed the river with Jingqiu on their backs, they felt Jingqiu's plump breasts jumping on the back, etc. Wait. But after Zhang Yimou's adaptation, when it comes to "Love of the Hawthorn Tree", who would think of "pure"!

PS I think Reiko and Watanabe must have a musical festival for Naoko. Chen Yingying ignored the books they liked to read and the songs they liked to listen to. In Murakami's world, music is definitely something to show. . . NND continues to memorize words. I feel guilty for writing this in an hour.

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