I tried to read John Arving’s The fourth Hand, but never get to finish it. I do like his sentences. As most of the people do, I think I know him only through movies, not through his books.

The only book that I finished was The World According to Garp, which I used it for my website quite some time ago. The World According to Ken Loo. I read it in Japanese version though.

From my local library, I found a book of his, in Japanese again, A Widow for One Year. The first few pages came to me as a surprise, the sceen where a girl heard the noices while her mother having sex with someone, not her father. Though I didn’t manage to finish the book, the sceen keeps spinning in my head for quite a while.

When I picked up the DVD of The Door in The Floor, I have no idea that it in fact was from the above-mentioned book. When I saw the “sceen,” it struck me, and I looked at the details, then I realised, oh dear John, there you are!

The title comes from the picture book in the movie, which is very impressive one. A scary one too.

Those hero/ine’s in Irving’s movie, make their decisions that come from a deep thought. It is of course the best solution for them after all, but it leaves a sense of hopelessness behind the determination. I am not sure you could call such a sadness, perhaps not. It is a kind of final decision from a thorough thinking.

If you want to know the answer, open the door yourself. But, you got the bare the consequences.

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