![]() ![]() That is, until Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" found the solution. Maybe Murakami is better left on the page, where readers can be caught up in his poetic explorations of the metaphysical and the mundane, and let their imaginations carry them through the scarce plots and cipher-like characters. In trying to capture that languid, moody atmosphere of a Murakami story, films like Tran Anh Hung's 2010 adaptation of "Norwegian Wood" attempt to hew too closely to the brooding plotlessness of Murakami's stories and end up feeling sluggish instead of slow-burning. As a result, many a movie adaptation of a Murakami story has suffered from the sin of being intensely boring. That, and nothing much happens plot-wise. It's the marriage of these big ideas with mundane objects that makes a Murakami story particularly hard to adapt into a feature film. If the universe is as uncaring as it is, why should we care? is the defining feeling of many of his books. The truth is relative in a Murakami story, which plays with such concepts as magical realism and the metaphysical. Most things go unexplained, and even if they are explained, nothing is much clearer. ![]()
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