Looking at the Norwegian Wood from the perspective of the film gives me the greatest feeling that they are limited in many things. First of all, I think that literature and words bring people more imagination and a sense of substitution. To a certain extent, movies solidify people's thinking and limit their imagination. As far as the Norwegian Wood are concerned, people's sense of substitution is not so strong. I think this is an important question to consider for all literary works made into films. It is clear that every actor who plays a character in the novel is given a fixed concept. For example, when I read the novel, I would imagine the appearance and characteristics of each of them based on Murakami's description of Watanabe and Naoko Midori. This kind of imagination is an important thing that reading can bring, and the film is to solidify the appearance and clothing of the actors. Every time I watch a movie when I see the faces of Watanabe and Naoko, I get a stronger impression in my mind. This leaves me with a preconceived notion and loses a lot of the intertextual stuff. I think it's better to think about the characteristics of each character in the text than the movie brings. Also, the film Norwegian Wood gave me the impression that the whole time they lived in is not like the 1980s described in the book, although the overall environment of the film, such as the environment of the dormitory, the restaurant, and the bookstore, greatly created the atmosphere of the 1980s. I didn't feel the 1980s as described in the book, but it might be more like the beginning of the 21st century.
Watanabe portrayed in the movie is often read with a novel, and many scenes are switched to the scene after he sleeps with a woman. These make me feel that it is not so real, but a deliberately created atmosphere to shape Watanabe's image. Including the sex scene of Watanabe and Naoko that night made me feel very different from what was described in the book. I think the inner activities and thinking of the characters in the book are difficult to fully express in the film. If the movie has too many narrations in the hearts of the characters at that time, it will destroy the atmosphere, and if there are no words and the idea of shaping the hearts of the characters by acting alone is a bit abrupt. It's hard to strike a balance. But one thing is that movies can convey some feelings. What I think the film succeeds in relative to the book is the scene where Kizuki commits suicide in the car. He committed suicide that way, and waiting to die in the car was very painful. The footage shows him choking when the co-pilot starts the engine to let the gas enter the car, which makes me imagine how painful it is to wait quietly for death in that closed environment and for a long time. There was no expression on the actor's face, and I don't know what he was thinking at the time. He was probably too uncomfortable and climbed into the back seat of the car, he took off one of his shoes. I think these portrayals are more impressive to me than just two or three sentences in the novel summarizing Kizuki's death. Relatively speaking, I prefer the more detailed descriptions in the novel, just saying that the film can make my visual memory last longer. Novel and text may make me forget details over time, but I was super excited to read it at the time. However, when I watched the movie, I was not so excited, maybe I was constantly comparing the details in the novel with the details in the movie.
Junze Shan (Andrew)
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