![]() ![]() The narrative is disjointed, giving little to no background on the characters in the film, leaving many members of the audience dozing in their seats (this was one of the films towards the end of the festival, quite late at night). And I fear, for most viewers unfamiliar with the work, it will be incomprehensible. The original work today is incomprehensible to most Japanese people - there are entire university courses focussed solely on interpreting this work. Even translated into our modern English, some passages of the work remain utterly disconnected from our conceptions of society making the world that Murasaki Shikibu lived in unreal, a "floating world", to use a worn cliche. The Tale of Genji is, at the least, a difficult work to read. ![]() I'm not particularly interested in animation these days, more so in literature and Japanese cultural history, so I treaded along to only this film, Spirited Away being sold out shortly after tickets went on sale. I'd looked forward to seeing this film ever since I heard it was coming to Sydney as part of a Japanese animation festival.
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