Type: Drama/Love/Animation
Douban score: 8.2
It turns out that animation can also tell stories so delicately. This Studio Ghibli 1993 work is no longer mainstream in style or plot, but its fresh and soft picture and plain and regular narrative style make people calm down and enjoy it slowly.
This film tells a very small story, and it is precisely because of the truth hidden in every detail that people are moved. When it comes to graduation, unrequited love and youth, countless movies will come to mind. To put it simply, Hearing the Sound of the Waves lies in the difference between two scenes: Du Qituo, who is willing to sleep in the bathtub, and Ricardo slap each other in public. The former tells the audience that this is really an unpolluted Ghibli film about pure love, while the latter tells the audience that love is not only affectionate eyes and gentle words, not always a letter or a lunch, but also a panic at a loss. I think someone must have seen Tuo sleeping in the bathtub and cursed: Pay attention to living alone! However, Tuoshi is such a kind, honest and enthusiastic lovely person. He will lend money to Rijiazi when she loses money, and he will worry about Rijiazi's safety, so he will take the initiative to accompany her to Tokyo, including helping his classmate Xiao Bin to advise and speak for his friend Matsuno, which will make the role more full and three-dimensional, and also convince the audience that he will naturally not be a person who takes advantage of people's crisis. Secondly, it is rare for a man and a woman to slap each other, but it is also easy to understand. The young Li Jiazi slapped Tuo in the face, and then Tuo hit him back, which shows that a mature student will always be a child who can't handle his inner feelings correctly, and will only express and vent in various strange ways, just like sometimes boys will bully her if they like a girl.
I believe that for most people's youth, it is not like "five centimeters per second" when two gentle people are getting closer and farther away, nor is it like "listening to the ears" when they are chasing dreams together. Many times, we secretly like someone, but we can't express it. We don't even know why we hate each other in the future, but we accidentally understand each other's thoughts after we are far away from each other. We are all as clumsy as Tuo and Rigazi. It is such a truth that the audience will inadvertently substitute their own stories when watching this work. When I heard the sentence: "Because there is a person I want to see in Tokyo, who is sleeping in a bathtub", maybe that moment not only expanded our minds, but also ourselves, with a little regret, a little relief and a little radian in our mouth. And the final reunion on the platform is more like our own beautiful wishes. When the midsummer wind blew the broken hair on Rijiazi's forehead again, at that moment, did you clearly hear the voice that had been buried deep in your heart for many years but didn't know what it was, like Tuo? Yes, that's the sound of surging waves. It's a long-lost "I love you".