<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much, Markus<div>I really appreciate this.</div><div>best</div><div>ej<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson</div><div style="font-family:arial"><div>Chair Professor</div><div>Foreign Languages and Literatures</div><div>Asia University</div><div>Professor Emeritus</div><div>National Chiao Tung University</div></div><div style="font-family:arial">Associate Professor Emeritus</div><div style="font-family:arial">University of California, Santa Cruz<br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:13 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Earl Jackson gives us a splendid reading of Drive My Car’s narrative complexities. His close textual analysis in part 2 of the essay is a powerful observation of what Hamaguchi is up to. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Markus</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">“</em><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Drive My Car”, in fact, obviates the question of convention and innovation because, like Hamaguchi’s previous works, the movie constitutes an act of concentration so committed to its process that even the distractions it admits become oracular, whether or not the oracle divulges its message- as we have seen in the communication workshop in </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">“</em><a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/happy-hour/" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Happy Hour" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom-style:none;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(252,5,5)" target="_blank">Happy Hour</a><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">”</em><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> (2015), Torii Baku’s (</span><a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/masahiro-higashide/" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Masahiro Higashide" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom-style:none;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(252,5,5)" target="_blank">Masahiro Higashide</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">) late reappearance in “Asako I and II” [寝ても覚めても] (2018) or in the scene in </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">“</em><a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/drive-my-car/" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Drive My Car" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom-style:none;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(252,5,5)" target="_blank">Drive My Car</a><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">”</em><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> when  Yusuke Kafuku (</span><a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/hidetoshi-nishijima/" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Hidetoshi Nishijima" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom-style:none;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(252,5,5)" target="_blank">Hidetoshi Nishijima</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.848px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">) closes his laptop on the video close-up of a lamprey’s ravenous maw (Fig. 1).</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/02/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-1/" target="_blank">https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/02/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-1/</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/03/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-2/" target="_blank">https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/03/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-2/</a></div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr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