The title of "Norwegian Wood" by Mr. Haruki Murakami is taken from a song "Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles. Of course, she is also the girl described in the book as having transparent eyes. Naoko's favorite song. This book is not only a novel that pays homage to youthful love, but also a top-notch petty bourgeois style. The emptiness of life is revealed everywhere in the book. The words in the book are like a wisp of clouds wandering in front of people's eyes. They clearly exist, but I wanted to touch it with my tentacles, but found nothing.
Although the film was produced in 2010, I still read it again because of my love for the novel. Especially when director Chen Yingxiong said how he worked hard to persuade Mr. Murakami to obtain the filming rights for this book, etc., I felt that this director must have extraordinary ability to control such a classic work. But ten minutes after watching the film, I was greatly disappointed. Without the support of the original work to provide me with the illusion of a better development of the film, I would never have persisted in watching it.
The movie basically follows the content of the original work, but at most it is just a combination of clips from various scenes. Even some of the sexual relations between the male protagonist Watanabe and the heroine Naoko are neither exaggerated nor exaggerated compared to the original work. A shot passed by, but it was shown with such a complete lack of thought. It makes people unable to see Naoko's complicated and contradictory inner thoughts during her first night as expressed in the original work, and her confusion about the future when she solved Watanabe's problems with her hands in the nursing home. Of course, the complex inner world of Watanabe's character cannot be seen. His views on life, his unique insights into the various people around him, and his somewhat decadent values ??in the original work are all gone in the film.
Midoriko, who jumps like a deer in spring, is a little bit like the girl in the original work. She smokes Marlboro cigarettes and watches restricted movies in the theater with Watanabe. The boy masturbated thinking about himself, playing the guitar and singing on the roof of the building indifferently even though the fire might burn him. But everything that this girl with quite an open personality shows in the original work is more indicative of her own pain, and her confusion and hope for the future. But I really can’t feel the girl’s thoughts in the film.
Another important character in the original work is Yongze. It is said that he has slept with hundreds of women. He is generally a suave, self-proclaimed, well-versed, well-off young man who seeks satisfaction in girls. , Forgetting nothingness is the driving force for life to move forward. He has a famous saying: A gentleman does what he should do, not what he wants to do. Thinking about it this way, his appearance must be very intriguing, but the person who plays this character in the film does not make you feel this at all. At most, he is just a not-so-handsome dandy, just holding a copy of Fitzgerald's " "The Great Gatsby" shows that he is different.
As for Suzuko, this woman who met Watanabe because of Naoko is probably the only character in the film who is closer to the original work. Before entering the nursing home, she was a piano teacher. She said no because of an affair with a girl. Due to the rumors surrounding her, she was forced to hide in a nursing home for the rest of her life. It was she who played and sang the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood." She is also lonely and helpless, but she accepts everything that time brings to her and lives indifferently.
The whole movie captures some key moments in the original work, just like a photographer used a SLR camera to carefully take some self-sentimental pictures, and then mixed them together and said: "This - is An incredible story that combines youthful love, life philosophy, sadness, and nihilistic values.
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The observer asked: “Really, where is it?” ”