Prologue — Waiting for Light(Stage is dim, pre-dawn blue. A large shop window faces the audience. Outside are only faint silhouettes of people passing: a child with a balloon, a dog on a leash, a couple walking arm in arm. None are detailed, only shadows.)(KLARA stands motionless in the window, her face pale in the half-dark. The silence stretches. After a long … [Read more...] about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun in Kore-eda’s Vision
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Ishiguro & Murakami on Klara and the Sun: Love, Soul, Memory
Introduction by Kazuo Ishiguro When I wrote Klara and the Sun, I was less interested in science fiction than in the timeless human questions that technology brings into sharper focus. What does it mean to love when love might be imitated? What does it mean to be human when machines mirror our gestures so convincingly? These questions are not new — literature … [Read more...] about Ishiguro & Murakami on Klara and the Sun: Love, Soul, Memory