The novel is beautiful, so let's adapt it like that

Kimberly 2022-04-17 09:01:13

Adapted from Haruki Murakami's novel of the same name, "Norwegian Forest", directed by Chen Yingxiong, written by Haruki Murakami himself, starring Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi and Kiko Mizuhara. It tells the love-hate entanglement between college student Watanabe, Naoko, Midoriko and others. The composition of the picture is beautiful, and the tone is well established. Those who haven't read the original book may have no clue, although I didn't understand the original book very well.

Everyone has their own forest, maybe we've never been there, but it's always there and always will be there. Those who are lost are lost, and those who meet will meet again. In addition to describing the impulse of primitive lust, there is also this passage in the original book that I particularly like: "Everyone has a forest of his own in his heart. Lost people are lost, and those who meet will meet again." The movie was indeed not shot. good.

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Extended Reading
  • Katrine 2022-04-22 07:01:59

    A lot of my favorite places were not made into the movie, such as the well, and Watanabe's roommate who watched the canal masturbate every day doing morning exercises, and Midori didn't mention the bear rolling on the clover grass, And the death of Midori's father, and the homosexuality who took care of Naoko... a lot~ But at least some things that I didn't understand in the book are now understood, such as Naoko's cause and cause of death. It always feels a little bit different.

  • Silas 2022-04-18 09:01:20

    The green child is not that green child at all. Kenichi Matsuyama looks less like Watanabe the further he goes to the back. Naoko cried hard, but unfortunately the plot was blurred, which made people feel indifferent to her helplessness. Sure enough, literature and film are two different things. Chen Yingxiong didn't do his homework. There is a problem with the tone and atmosphere of the whole film, and it has become a repressed bitterness scene. My least favorite is the soundtrack, which distorts the beauty of photography. Only the green grass that grows wildly in the mountains is so beautiful.

Norwegian Wood quotes

  • Storm Trooper: Mind if I give you a piece of advice?

    Toru Watanabe: Sure.

    Storm Trooper: Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only degenerates feel sorry for themselves.

  • Toru Watanabe: Nothing can heal the loss of a beloved. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can heal that sorrow. All we can do is live through the sorrow and learn something from it. But whatever we learn will be of no help in facing the next sorrow that comes along.