The book Norwegian Wood has the potential to be a really beautiful, melancholy movie. However, the movie I just watched was so bad. For one, the personality of the characters didn’t come through at all and all of the characters in the movie felt really one dimensional. The movie characters were shells of the book characters. For the entirety of the book, Naoko was clearly not 100% emotionally or mentally stable. In the movie, the only indication that she wasn’t ok was that she would start crying. Her suicide felt uncharacteristic. The relationships between characters didn’t develop either. I didn’t feel any chemistry between Watanabe and Naoko and there wasn’t really anything in the movie that showed a romance developing. At the beginning of the movie, it seemed like they barely knew each other and then all of a sudden they’re sleeping together. The entire movie felt rushed and haphazardly thrown together. Whole parts of the book were cut out and certain things were changed that really had no reason to be. For example, why did they change Watanabe’s gift from a sweater to a scarf? The movie seemed to completely abandon the book, including the vibes, the characters, and the plot.
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