Burning Movie

 As I was watching the film, I found myself trying to make many comparisons to the story. I thought that the ending to the story was very random and in many ways fell in line with Murakami's post-modernist style of disjointed, unexpected events. In addition, I felt that the movie in itself had a very slow pace leading to the very extreme ending. I found myself wondering what everything meant and what the movie was trying to accomplish focusing on certain aspects of the story. For example, routine is one aspect I thought was strong throughout the movie. There was also more of an emphasis on the characteristics of the women chosen to be killed. The girl was very lost and even seemed suicidal when they were speaking over dinner in one scene. 

Seeing scenes played out in a live-action setting helped change my perspective. For example, when the girl was miming out peeling an orange, the scene seemed less significant than in the story. I do believe it was interesting to see more emotion in the characters like the main character’s scramble and struggle to find the girl and growing paranoia/frustration. 

I was frustrated at the point when the main character was in the bathroom and saw all of the jewelry left behind by victims. He saw this and did nothing and did not seem as concerned as he maybe should have been. Even after ending up in the same bathroom after the girl disappeared, he still did nothing and didn't go to the police to report it. The main character clearly was not concerned with justice towards the end of murder, but I was confused about that one part of the movie.

Ariel