Although I have only read the Chinese translation and the English translation, I already have all kinds of imaginations about the story in my heart: Naoko's weakness and sickness, Midori's "unrestrained" playfulness and cuteness, Reiko's singing and wrinkles, The endless emptiness after Yongze's romantic and suave...
And as soon as this movie came out, everything was instantly subverted. Although everyone's "Nuo" is bound to be different, the characters in the movie are too disrespectful to the original...
Adapting such a classic novel, I can't help but be spat on. I understand this. very. But think about it calmly, and put aside the anger and sadness that comes with having your fantasies tampered with, and the film is still a failure.
The whole film is, to put it bluntly, a remake for the sake of a remake. The screenwriter seems to want to be "loyal" to the original book as much as possible, so the whole plot is like a premature ejaculation man with no emotion, no foreplay, no brewing, no details, and then quickly ejaculated and pulled down...
I can't help but wonder if people who haven't read the novel are here Watch the film to see what it's trying to say. The subtlety of the relationship between Watanabe and Naoko, and the love between Watanabe and Midoriko seem so inexplicable! ! ! Even those of me who know the development of the plot can't help but think: Naoko in the film is a woman who has become crazy after her childhood sweetheart boyfriend died, and Luko is a "premeditated" girl with a cute face and nothing more. And Watanabe is a passionate young man.
It is also because of the lack of a lot of details, the accumulation and characterization of plots, the scenes and viewpoints about "sex" in the film are somewhat superficial or even abrupt. Naoko seems to be a strange person trying to get rid of his "frigidity", Yongze's "flower heart" is just frozen in the "flower heart" stage... And the love between Watanabe and Reiko at the end of the article is even more funny and extraordinary, It's as if Reiko is a "horny" old woman after seven years of isolation (of course, the movie hides Reik's age a lot).
What I want to say is that since the essence, charm and emotion cannot be condensed and expressed in the short two hours of the film, why bother to make a "Norwegian Forest Story"?
My bad evaluation of this film is not just because it "breaks" the Norwegian Wood that I built in my heart.
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