The story of Norwegian Forest is set in Japan in11960' s, mainly focusing on the protagonist Watanabe and his youth experience. This film describes the complicated triangular relationship between Watanabe and two women-Liang Zi and Naoko-from the first-person perspective. Through this emotional entanglement, the film presents the exploration of love and the meditation on life and death, loneliness and other propositions.
The Norwegian Forest has a fresh and concise narrative style and a beautiful and delicate language. In a unique way, it depicts the confusion, struggle and growth of young people, as well as their anguish and helplessness in the process of pursuing true love and finding the meaning of life. Emotional description and deep analysis of the inner world make the audience feel the emotional experience of the protagonist. It depicts the confusion and growth of adolescence with delicate brushstrokes, which causes people to think about love, life and the meaning of life.
The novel Norwegian Forest
Norwegian Wood is a novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, which was first published in 1987. Works-I wrote at the beginning that when I arrived at Hamburg airport and heard Naoko's favorite song, I couldn't help but recall 18 years ago, I had a one-night stand with Naoko and left without saying goodbye. The girl in my class, Lvzi, came into my life. Then, just know Naoko into a mental hospital. We had a pleasant few days there and met several other patients.
After Naoko committed suicide, we played this song on the guitar at her funeral to express our nostalgia for her and our dissatisfaction and protest against the society. This book expresses the loneliness and confusion of teenagers in the face of adolescence, the helplessness of growing up, and the survival pain that young people can't get rid of under social pressure. This sadness and powerlessness for life has also become one of the important themes in Haruki Murakami's works. Norwegian Wood has sold more than 9.2 million copies in Japan.