Probably because Zhuyu is in the front, there are not many successful examples of good novels being turned into movies. Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye" is too famous. I didn't have high expectations for the film, but I found out that the director was Robert Altman, and Jorge used to like his dark humorous Korean war film "M·A· S·H".
The story of the 1950s in the novel was transplanted by the director to the background of the 1970s, very hippie. The faded pictures, and some superimposed shadow effects, present a blurry, chaotic and ambiguous world, with a dazzling texture, but it has the same smell of loss as to say goodbye is to die a little in the original book.
Thinking about it again, many of Chandler's fancier Haruki Murakami's books are based on this sense of loss, rendering Chandler's concise text, in a more delicate and boring way, such as "Norwegian Forest".
I ate half of the original "Long Farewell" last year, and I'm going to make it up.
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