Meadow Mori
was always fascinated by film. First watching it and after a 9-month affair
with one of the greatest director and actor of all times, she becomes a film
maker herself. Learning by doing is her way of studying film. Watching over and
over again the old classics and copying their ways of shooting she develops not
only a style of her own but also an obsession with her films. When she records
Jelly aka Nicole about her love life, she oversteps a thin line and comes very
close.
It takes
some time until the different parts of the novel melt into one story. They
seems to be completely without any connection, even the ones about Meadow since
they are not told in chronological order and rather fragmented, made it
difficult for me to focus on the story. What I liked best was the love story of
Jelly and Jack, both of them visually impaired, they have to rely on their
voices and what they hear in it.
The
construction of the novel is quite interesting, the way the single parts are
presented and how, in the end, the join to create a complete story. Also the development
of some of the characters was attention-grabbing. Yet, I missed a red thread
and therefore the whole of it could not convince me completely.
