louisiana channel: sayaka murata

Louisiana Channel is my favorite website. Of course sometimes they feature people who talks…. nonsense to me. But most times their videos are beautiful and inspiring. This week was a Japanese writer 村田紗耶香 Sayaka Murata. I liked her コンビニ人間 (2016) Convenient Store Woman (2018) a lot, but was disappointed with 地球星人 (2018) Earthlings (2020) – she might have thought that the set up was all strange and new but to me it was full of cliché. Her talk for Louisiana Channel was fun and interesting – she seems to be true to herself and have some fresh imaginations. But, I was bothered by her repeated use of the word, 子供の時から. I don’t know… I don’t like those narratives that find an origin of everything in one’s childhood. It also sounded like she wanted to emphasize that she was born differently from other people, naturally special/weird. Genius/prodigy complex?