When reading Norwegian Wood, there were a lot of scenes that were hard for me to picture. Upon seeing the movie though, I can say that the movie made me visualize some things, but it also left some things to be desired.
Coming into all of this, I wanted to enjoy the movie because I automatically go in and expect the movie to be worse than the book itself, since that has been my experience. I liked having a visualization of where things were happening, as I assume other people have said, but also I think that the inclusion of certain things just made no sense, and these additions were clearly made just for monetary value such as the sex scenes. While I did appreciate seeing how Kitzumi died, I sort of wish I hadn’t seen it so I wouldn’t imagine it (but that’s just a touchy subject for me, I am sure this is an amazing addition to the movie).
However, I feel like this movie could have helped me get into the heads (or an interpretation of the heads) of the main characters, but I didn’t really get that as much as I wanted to. I think some complex ideas from the book are hard to put into the movie, and while they tried, I just did not think it was there. I think in general this novel and many of other Murakami works just elevate one man and make women seem bad and they go through a lot of things, and I wish this was not the case every single time.
No comments:
Post a Comment