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The existence of one man in the context of life
industrialist - wrote on 04/30/2013
With a minimalist approach to a complex narrative dissonance, Jun Ichikawa dissects Murakami Haruki's short story onscreen with a first-class examination of alienation and dislocation, while rounding out his own ouevre with perhaps his most endearing cinematic artefact. The film is bereft of sentimentality yet imbues a sense of nostalgia purely through the elements that comprise its construction, focusing on the evolution of its central character without neglecting the socio-cultural contexts and the quasi-structuralist idealogies of determinism and recursivity.
Like the life of its titular character, the film unfolds even as it advances with a shy and fragmented effort. The frame is bled of color and the characters function in modes of disconnection even in increasing encroachment …
