What I liked about this film: the general mood; the effective way it conjures sadness; the fact that it's an adaptation of a Murakami book; the way that it has a meaningful narrative and character arc for its central character, if not for the others.
What I wasn't so taken with, causing me to be only lukewarm about it as a whole: it's slow...very, very slow (probably unavoidably so given the source material); the occasional jarring editing and music; and, particularly, it doesn't quite pierce in the way that it could have, and maybe nearly did.
What I wasn't so taken with, causing me to be only lukewarm about it as a whole: it's slow...very, very slow (probably unavoidably so given the source material); the occasional jarring editing and music; and, particularly, it doesn't quite pierce in the way that it could have, and maybe nearly did.
