Everyone has their own piece of forest, maybe we've never been there, but it's always been there, always there. The lost are lost, and the people who meet will meet again. ——— Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
This is a controversial writer, a writer who has missed the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and he is Haruki Murakami. Haruki Murakami wrote a novel, "Norwegian Forest", which has long occupied the list of major bookstores in China, giving the illusion that there is only one writer in Japan.
Forests of Norway
"Norwegian Forest" was originally a song by the Beatles, and Taiwanese singer Wu Bai also has a song of the same name, the music is the true refraction of people's hearts, and the humanity expressed by the music is more hidden and real. It is said that Murakami was inspired by the Beatles to write this book.
The book has been controversial since its inception, and a large number of "sexual" depictions have made people wonder whether this is a romance novel or an erotic novel.
Some people say, "This is a novel forged with documentary techniques and poetic language, which focuses on the dual pursuit of pure love and personality of young boys and girls in complex modern life, which is more than the clichés of general love descriptions and has a deeper meaning in life." ”
Movie posters
Novels, beautiful words are amazing; movies, exquisite pictures and small regrets.
The director is Chen Ying from Vietnam, and many people criticize the film for not making the soul of the original work, except for the exquisite picture and the narrative faithful to the original, only the director's personal Vietnamese style. To be fair, both novels and movies are worth watching, and a hundred Hamlets in the eyes of a hundred people seem to see our own youth from the book, and touch the confusion of the past.
Watanabe, Kizuki, and Naoko's "Trio"
The story takes place in the 1960s, when Japan enters a highly developed modern society. The economy is developing rapidly, and people's spiritual crises are also increasing day by day. The abundance of material life and the expansion of people's desires have caused a serious imbalance in people's spiritual world. Communication between people is reduced, and psychological distances are widened.
People living in the city are like rootless duckweeds, lonely, nihilistic, lost, but unable to face strong social pressures. The prosperity of the city cannot hide the anxiety in people's hearts. This kind of helplessness, countless young people living in the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou have the same feeling.
At present, society seems to have entered a period of rapid development, and in the subway of big cities, young people hold mobile phones in their hands to commute for several hours, and the helplessness and confusion of the times are revealed in their eyes. The hustle and bustle of crowds in big cities and the endless flow of traffic make people feel intimidated. Inner peace, I am afraid we will never go back.
Each era has its own anxiety, people enjoy the convenience of material things at the same time, but also have to endure the materialistic social atmosphere, ordinary people will have a variety of psychological problems, you and I are mortal, facing the helplessness of the times, naturally can feel the pain of the protagonist's heart at that time.
Naoko
Naoko is the most intriguing protagonist in the novel, and many people see their own shadow through her.
It is said that half of human psychological problems come from the times and half from themselves.
Most people are accustomed to enduring social problems rather than actively solving them, because not all difficult problems have answers.
Naoko is one of the victims of social problems.
Naoko, simple and melancholy, has a deep affection for Kizuki, and they begin to be intimate at the age of twelve, but the two have no substantive sexual activity until puberty. We don't know if Kizuki committed suicide by being depressed due to Naoko? Does Kizuki really love Naoko, or does she really love herself?
Qingmei Bamboo Horse can not be exchanged for perfect love, and Mu Yue's answer to life is no solution.
Mu Yue left, ending his 17-year-old life with carbon monoxide in the car.
Kizuki's death left Naoko in the agony of doom, and she has lived in a closed self-space ever since.
Kizuki's death also makes the protagonist Watanabe realize that "death is not the opposite of life, but eternal existence as a part of life." ”
Watanabe and Naoko
Naoko does not understand that it is not God who can redeem herself, but herself.
Finally, one day, Naoko came to Watanabe's school, and the two of them walked together, neither of them wanted to mention Kizuki, and they remained silent.
Naoko wants to open the door to the outside world through Watanabe, and on her birthday, she inadvertently opens the door of her confined heart, and watanabe collides with spirit and flesh, which surprises her that she feels sexual satisfaction for the first time, which makes her feel guilty inside.
Haruki Murakami is very good at writing "sex", the text is very beautiful and people do not resent it, when people no longer tangle with words, people can also read Murakami.
To be sure, Watanabe fell in love with this gentle, beautiful, sad woman.
Not sure, is Naoko in love with Watanabe? With the guilt of betraying Mu Yue, she fell into a deeper spiritual dilemma.
In the nursing home, Naoko, while longing for the beauty of the outside world, escapes the shackles of the world, and ends in contradictions, she also chooses to end her life.
We can't bear to accuse Naoko of not being brave enough, and when suffering transcends man's own endurance, death becomes the final liberation.
Suicide is a human error, but a fallacy is not a sin.
Murakami also explores the relationship between human sex and love, arguing that sex is not the only cure for the pain of human love.
Men are not hesitant about sex, and the commitment to feelings is forward-looking, and women are not hesitant about real feelings, but they are always worried about men's addiction to physical satisfaction.
Naoko loves Kizuki and Watanabe loves Naoko, and the "love and sex" between them are forcibly separated.
Love without sex is incomplete, and the union of spirit and sex is in line with the true needs of human nature.
Love begins with the soul and falls into the flesh.
Perhaps, sex is just a momentary impulse, but love is not, it can be a clean, beautiful, eternal existence.
Haruki Murakami said, "As teenagers, we pursue passion, but after maturity, we are obsessed with mediocrity, and after we seek, hurt, and divest, we can still believe in love as always, which is a kind of courage." ”
Most of us, ordinary people, have fiercely resisted the injustice of fate, and have tried to change the changes of the times. However, after the smoke of war, more people chose to obey and endure. Most people, like Watanabe, strive for mediocrity, let loose and redeem while redeeming, love while mune, pursue perfect love while sinking the desires of the flesh, people compromise in struggle, and obey in resistance.
Everyone likes different protagonists, and I like Yongze, who never sympathizes with himself.
Yongze, what you do is not necessarily what you want to do, but you must do.
Yong ze, from a moral point of view, is a proper scumbag, slept with a hundred women at a young age, he chose his own life between his own life and the needs of his lover, he did not hesitate to choose his own life, ignoring the pain of his lover, after the lover cut his vein and committed suicide, he only issued such an understated sigh: "Because of the death of Hatsumi, something has disappeared, which is indeed a sad and sad thing." ”
A scumbag, nailed on the board, no need to overturn the case.
However, Yongze's attitude of "never sympathizing with himself" made him extremely cold and powerful to the point of wantlessness.
He was a man who only loved himself and went forward, and no one could make him stop.
There is indeed such a group in this world, they are strong, but they are selfish, but because of this, they can play a big role in a crisis-ridden world.
Life should not be judged only by the moral dimension; a brave guy who "never sympathizes with himself" also deserves to be respected.
Watanabe
"Norwegian Forest" is a tribute to youth, and those who can understand the truth are no longer young.
Without experiencing the sufferings of life, most of them cannot see the mysteries in the book.
Reality is cruel, life is lonely, and the entanglement of spirit and flesh once made us briefly satisfied. More often, people have to face the lonely path of life and go on bravely.
You and I are mortal, lonely and brave, just live.