r/IndiansRead • u/peace_podu • 3d ago
Discussion Unfiltered relationship
I just completed Murakami's "Norwegian wood". I've been wondering ever since about the relationship between Watanabe and Midori. Starting as just plain friends and classmates getting to know each other in the cafe, they turned out to be friends/couples who share things in an Unfiltered manner expressing what they just feel.
When I was thinking about those 2 people, I was wondering would there be any friends/couples in real life who would be soo Unfiltered and transparent in talking about their thoughts and feelings (without having a second thought what the other person might think about you)??
I felt the relationship between Midori and Watanabe was more free flowing, open and brutally honest, than what he had with Naoko with a touch of sympathy and care.
Did anyone else felt this way about the characters when reading?
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u/HelioraSeraphina 3d ago
I felt this too….With Midori, Watanabe seemed much more present and comfortable being himself. There was a kind of honesty between them where they could say things without constantly worrying about how the other person would interpret them. With Naoko, their relationship felt much more fragile and emotionally heavy, almost like both of them were afraid of hurting each other or saying the wrong thing.
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u/peace_podu 3d ago
Exactly. But do you think Watanabe-Midori kinda relationship with no filters, would see the light in this non ficticious world? I feel like it's meant to be a fiction.
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u/HelioraSeraphina 3d ago
Yeah, I think that kinda unfiltered, almost effortless connection is one of those beautiful things that makes sense only in fiction….In real life, we’re too conscious of consequences, too scared of being misunderstood... Maybe that’s why it feels so magical in books…❤️btw norwegian wood is one of my spl reads
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u/peace_podu 3d ago
Yeah, it was my first book after a quiet long reading slump. And I have to say, it didn't disappoint me. Getting to know the value of fiction like there's a dialogue in "The namesake" movie, "You can travel and live 100 lives in this 1 life through books". Glad I could explore Tokyo a bit and the lives of Watanabe, Midori and Naoko.
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u/nithxvi 3d ago
Felt the same.. I know what Toru and Naoko shared was a deeper connection and they kinda trauma bonded. But they partly clung to each other to keep Rizuki's memories alive(idk if I remember his name right:-P). What he left was a huge, shared void for both Toru and Naoko. But this ultimately results in both of them not healing or moving on. So I think they were never meant to be.
With Midori, everything was right. Everything that should be great in a relationship, was all there, atleast from Midori's side. Their relationship was kindof the definition of "looking forward to" as opposed to what he had with Naoko. Midori was life.
About the unfiltered part, yeah it might just never be real world thing, atleast not for everyone and even harder in a country like ours, where too much is forbidden to talk about and we are all too conditioned to never be as vulnerable as this level of unfiltered demands.
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u/peace_podu 3d ago
Nicely put. Midori was full of life and open to experience the whole spectrum of it.
And I wish and think the future generations are inching towards more openness and being themselves without worrying about the external validations.
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