One thing that's been bugging me for a few year is that it's actually been filmed! But for the world I haven't been able to figure out how to be able to see it...Nightrider wrote:"Majken"
"Majken" is a voluminous story that revisits JAL's familiar territory of family life as a trap.
The narrator is the main character and for a while there's a certain pleasure from the linear flow of the tale. Soon however other players
are introduced, but in the style that suggests foreshadowing of grim things to come. Once again less is more should have been a good idea
since there's lots of walkabout exposition that might have been edited to a better effect. Copius amounts of information
still leave the readers in the dark as all the protagonists continue on as ciphers with only a hint of clarification
of their moves. Punctuated by sparse splashes of action (one of which is straight out of "Jackie Brown") "Majken"
trying hard to say something profound, but in the end comes of as
a sort of vague geriatric variation of "LIttle Star"....or a practice reel for that novel.
Anyway it has an IMDB entry at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174700/