Can't decide if I want to catch this

Dinner with Murakami is part of the Singapore Indie Doc Fest.



It took me many years to like reading Haruki Murakami. There were too many gushy people involved when I first got to know about him. And I very much don't like anything overhyped by pseudo intellectuals or pseudo anybody. In order to prove myself right, I read a couple of his books, and found them highly pretentious. I believe it was by association to the people who gush over them. I am irrational and unfair that way.

Anyway. It took a great many years before all those aforementioned people became lost to me and I was able to read Murakami again. I read all of it and I have since reread most of it. I still cannot gush over his books and I still stiffen and feel loathing when someone starts to go on about how marvellous the Murakami world is. But I like Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood and his short stories. In fact, I was surprised how much I liked his short stories, because I don't really like short stories in general.

So here's a documentary about Murakami and I don't know if I'd be comfortable subjecting myself to another person's opinions, perspectives and curiosities about him and the Murakami world.