Before we met, people who loved each other were strangers. -Lin Benmao's Haruki Murakami. travel
Out of the gate of the cinema, the winter afternoon sunshine in the south is just right. Just like in Your Name, there is a light on the bed of the hero and heroine.
Few people went to the cinema, only me and six other strange girls were in the cinema.
As soon as the lights went out and the screen lit up, the story unfolded.
Sanye is a female high school student living in a remote town. Since the mayor's father is not at home, she lives with her sister and grandmother, who are still primary school students. He is straightforward and hates the custom of family shrine and the election of his father. I often sigh with my friends about this narrow town life and look forward to the gorgeous freedom of Tokyo.
One day, she had a dream: she exchanged bodies with a male high school student living in the center of Tokyo. Long has two best friends, who work in an Italian restaurant and have a good impression on his colleagues.
They exchange bodies two or three times a week without warning.
In order not to ruin each other's lives, they agreed to help each other and keep a diary every day.
In the process of exchanging bodies, they know each other, help each other, change each other, and even unconsciously like each other.
Like "July and An Sheng", this is a movie to exchange lives and find each other.
Unlike July and Ansheng, this dream of life exchange began to be forgotten after waking up countless times.
Always looking, losing, looking again.
In that forgotten name, this is a secret and great love.
Director Makoto Shinkai said that the source of this story is a famous chorus in Omodamachi:
Like this harmony song, the whole story is also classical and beautiful.
The scene of this story is beautiful. This small town called Iron Hand is surrounded by mountains and waters, and it is always full of sunshine.
Tieshou Town has a long tradition of tying knots and chewing wine, a palace water shrine, autumn festivals and young people who love their dreams and look forward to the metropolis. There are no cafes and neon lights, no high-rise buildings and few employment opportunities in the town.
Desolate and lively.
When I saw this movie, the slogan was: A youth movie that most urban white-collar workers want to see.
Why?
Makoto Shinkai, 43, said:
Small town is a charming word. There is calm and boring, but there is strength, faith and joy buried there.
Small towns are frequented by most urban strugglers.
Therefore, Heshou Town is the exit for San Ye to escape and find urban life, and it is also the entrance that urban high school students have been looking for and reaching.
The town called "Iron Hand" has changed many people.
In my dream, I exchanged bodies and lived a different life. High school students' parting leaves realized her wish.
Because of the exchange of bodies, she and the dragon experienced the troubles and happiness of each other's lives. Fate also began to entangle and involve each other, like a knot woven by three leaves.
It's wonderful to exchange that happy youth time in life. It's so beautiful, the audience is full of warm smiles, forgetting that teenagers have to grow up.
Forget what kind of disaster the director will set to urge them to grow up.
After waking up once, the two stopped exchanging bodies. This life of not exchanging bodies and not making phone calls to each other makes dragons feel scared. He is determined to go to the countryside to look for loose leaves.
It was unexpectedly learned that three years ago, Tieshou Town suffered from natural disasters, more than 500 people died, the survivors moved out, and Tieshou Town became an empty mountain.
Sanye was also killed.
The crisis in Tieshou Town originated from the comet approaching the earth.
The meteorite landed and Tieshou Town was razed to the ground.
Hajime Taki woke up after learning the bad news and forgot the name of Sanye.
As if summoned, he still insisted on going up the mountain to find the shrine.
With the memory in my dream, I found the shrine where I have been chewing wine. Chewing wine means that the producer gives away half of himself.
The dragon chewed the wine, saw the past, and remembered the name-an important person, a person who doesn't want to forget, and a person who can never forget.
I also saw the cause of the disaster.
Back in time, body exchange.
The dragon took the corpse and returned to the day when the disaster occurred in Tieshou Town.
The dragon decided to save Sanye and save the town. As a prophet, he persuaded his friends from Sanye to make explosions and broadcasts together, and moved the villagers to a safe place-the playground of a high school before the meteorite landed.
However, the rescue operation was hindered by the disbelief of others, including my father.
Switch bodies again. Sanye decided to make a final effort by herself.
In the end, she succeeded.
They worked together to save the villagers in the town and their future.
At this point in the story, their fate is like a knot.
Twist, twist, restore and connect.
Over time, they became themselves now-forgetting each other's names.
Believe in love, even if you forget a person's name, you can't forget that you loved each other desperately.
4. an encounter
From being alone to finding a small town, to the reappearance of comet news. Five years later, Long has become a white-collar worker who has gone to many interviews but achieved little.
The boy who has been stubbornly looking for him put on a suit, went to various interview places and shuttled through the bustling streets and tram tracks in Tokyo.
It is no different from many adults who work hard in the city, and they unconsciously fall into a heavy sense of fatigue in their lives.
The only light left by the protagonist is that he once left Tokyo in desperation, looking for small towns and scattered leaves.
The friend said: You are not fit to wear a suit.
Have a crush on your ex and say: You are not fit to wear a suit.
I've been thinking about this line that doesn't make sense to the plot. Does it imply that every adult lives in adolescence? Are you implying the return of the teenager who desperately doesn't want to forget each other's names?
So vigorous in the past, so hard to find each other's past, and finally forgot.
Then the hard-written love is hidden.
The last meeting was really ordinary.
It's just that the two men and women in the tram saw each other, then staggered and finally chased.
Long He chased after each other on the stairs. Long asked, Really ... Where have I seen you?
Sanye said: Me too.
Your name is ...
Why did Director Makoto Shinkai do this? Why should the end of the movie be ordinary? Why almost played down the scene of intense love before, just like the scene when most couples meet for the first time in the world.
To make the audience feel strong? In order to reveal ordinary love, there is also a vigorous past hidden? To tell the audience that all encounters are reunions after a long separation?
I like it very much anyway.
That scene makes people believe in the eternal theme-love in a monotonous life.
I believe this line in the adult world without nursery rhymes and in the eyes of adults who don't expect much from happiness.
Well, yes. People who meet will meet again and can cross the map of fate and arrive from one place to another.