Let's talk about movies. It is difficult to translate Murakami's books into images. In fact, if you want me to shoot, I will have to shoot that "Kafka on the Seaside", in which the person who practiced the same sex - Oshima-kun has to let Li Yuchun play it. As for the 15-year-old Kafka-kun, if I How nice to be 10 years younger!
Tony's father's career can be described as magnificent. He was an excellent jazz musician and a personable girl-picking expert. He participated in World War II, which invaded China. After the war, he was sent back to Japan and married with a woman and gave birth to tony. Then he died. Compared with Tony's father's rough life experience, we are like squirrels sleeping in a tree hole in a tree hole and sleeping soundly. The father gave his son a mixed-race name on a whim, so Tony was discriminated against and became a lonely person, just like the protagonists in all of Murakami's books. However, tony loneliness, others are fascinated by freehand but in practice
it is a mechanical device diagram drawing skills, and there is no shred of difference to the actual product. So he met the clothes elf and the clothes-buying girl, just as he met the hotel elf and the stomach-expanding girl. The girl died, leaving a mountain of expensive and beautiful clothes hanging alone in the empty, lonely room.
An endless sense of loneliness pervades, Murakami's usual theme. It's not that you live a lonely life, but that you actively pursue a lonely life and enjoy it. The 75-minute film length did not deliberately stretch Murakami's words into a long film. Except for the open ending of the film, which is different from the novel, the film is trembling and walking on thin ice. Even if you look at the novel, the film is basically the same as the book, and you don't dare to go overboard. The picture also carefully uses a slideshow technique of slowly panning from left to right. Sakamoto Ryuichi's faint piano sound occasionally swept across every fold in the room. It may be because Murakami's words are really difficult to visualize, and the film uses a lot of voiceovers.
It is worth mentioning that the clothes in the film are really carefully selected, especially when they are worn on Miyazawa Rie, they complement each other. The tony performed by Kazunari Ogata is different from the image I expected before. Maybe my impression of it is still with the pianist in "Yiyi".
After watching the movie, I always feel that something is lacking. This may be a common problem of all people. After reading a novel that makes me satisfied, and then watching the video work adapted from it, I will always compare it with the original, and because of the preconceivedness of the original, I will or produce more or less exclusion. After watching "Tony Water Valley", I always felt that the film was too careful and deliberately catered to Murakami's feeling, but if I really made changes, it might cause new dissatisfaction.
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