Die-hard readers will inevitably turn their noses up at the movie, but this is irrelevant. The movie "Norwegian Forest" has had an independent character as a literary and artistic work since it was born under the guidance of Chen Yingying. How to change is the creative right of Chen Yingying, there is no need to sacrifice the original work there to compare the movie.
Just enjoy Chen Yingxiong's "Norwegian Woods", forget about Murakami's "Norwegian Woods".
In the movie, Chen Yingying created a group of Japanese youths for us, and their biggest feature is that they are in an inexplicable trance and elusiveness (the protagonist Watanabe is the most "normal"), and their lives have also changed. To be frivolous, 17-year-old Mu Yue, 20-year-old Naoko, and Hatsumi, all of them in their youth, went one after another and voluntarily passed away.
However, they cannot blame the tragedy entirely on themselves. It is not themselves that decides the life and death of Kiyuki and Naoko, but the social environment in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. When Watanabe visited Naoko, the man behind him The streets were full of parades chanting slogans, and loudspeakers in the campus had been blaring harsh revolutionary slogans; in the classroom, several radical students even broke into the classroom and drove the teacher off the stage.
It was an era of the leftists in full swing, and the world was full of young revolutionary figures—the Paris university students in May had sex with the police, the Italian university students teamed up with workers to kidnap and assassinate corrupt officials, the Federal Republic of Germany university students established The "Red Army" set fire to capitalist factories, and in Japan, the "Red Army" who walked out of the campus has made great achievements in the vast world from Palestine to Hokkaido.
It was an era of high enthusiasm and group excitement. The top students in Waseda kept good books and did not read. They must carry the portraits of Chairman Mao and Lin Biao to the streets to call for the overthrow of the "capitalist government". They murdered and exploded. , taking hostages, endangering public safety, everyone is in extreme leftist madness, and a group of Japanese young students known as the "United Red Army" even broke out the tragic tragic killing of each other.
It is against this background that the stories of Watanabe, Naoko and Midoriko unfold. In that era, perhaps the university students in Tokyo were confused, restless, and lost. The film seems to have constructed a story of pure love far from the hustle and bustle of politics, but at the heart of it is the feeling of youth under the tide of the left-wing movement.
Throughout the history of the 20th century, the "revolution" with a left-wing color will definitely be closely integrated with youth, rebellion and sex, and the left-wing student movement, which has become more and more extreme, has finally caused the young people in Japan to fall into deep hesitation. , suicide, promiscuity, and promiscuity have become common choices for young Japanese people to vent their distress after the "revolution" dream was shattered.
They are all people from the past. In today's era of consumerism, all memories have drifted away, only the tingling feeling of love and sex, after many years, the memory is still like a light. In a chaotic, tangled, and depressing era, sex has become the most simple and effective spiritual comfort for young people.
Naoko only had sexual impulses when she was 20 years old, but she couldn't have normal sex. This may be the metaphor of those Red Army-style youths who throw their heads and blood for the inexplicable "revolutionary ideal" - in fact, they are even adults. When the conditions were not met, he began to smash the world, cruel to others, and in the final analysis, cruel to himself.
Those Red Army-style youths, before their youth is over, their lives have withered.
This is the source of the ruthless power in "Norwegian Forest". Behind the "little fresh" veil of warmth, there is a red army-style fanaticism and cruelty.
The meaning of life has nowhere to go, how can one not die?
After the death of both parents, Midori called Watanabe and begged him to take her to see an porn movie - "the dirtiest kind".
Some people are very dissatisfied with the scene in which Chen Yingying changed this line in the original work.
This is the essence of Chijun-style small freshness.
At that moment, Midori's heart was filled with utter sadness.
To watch "Norwegian Forest", you must first read "The Record of the United Red Army".
(Published in the 33rd issue of "Southern People Weekly" on September 26, 2011)
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