I'm giving this film 3 stars, for beautiful scenes and doing the best with what it could on a limited time frame for a film. The book of course, is significantly more enjoyable. That's a cliché line that everyone says about books to film, but in this scenario it is true in my opinion. Haruki Murakami, the author of the novel this film is based on, is in my opinion an expert on characters. He has characters I simply get lost in and those characters provide witty lines and thoroughly enjoyable dialogue.
This film however, couldn't provide the time to devote to each of these characters. For example, one character, Stormtrooper, is shown twice in the film. Once waking up the main character and wanting to exercise with him and then once, examining nose hairs. However in the book, he hands Toru a firefly that he caught in a jar. Toru, feeling situational melancholy, releases the firefly on the roof of the dorms in a scene I simply would have loved to view in the film. Stormtrooper leaves the dorm shortly there after, about the time when Toru is beginning to feel more and more alone. There's also Reiko who, though present in the film, is a very enjoyable character who gets heavily overlooked here. She cracked me up laughing with her dialogue in the book.
Again I don't fault the film, it's always hard to match a book to film and sometimes it isn't the best thing to do. But in all honesty, had I not read the book, I probably would have enjoyed the film more.
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No problem getting my delivery. Since I watched this movie, there are no words to describe this movie. This would be my first movie in my collection.
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