Distance, time and liberation - Interpretation of "5 centimeters per second"

Nestor 2022-04-19 09:02:21

If "Hearing the Waves" is still a little rough, and if "Listening with Side Ears" also uses fairy tales and fantasy to neutralize the cruelty and dullness of youth documentary, then now this "5 Centimeters Per Second" can finally be called " The perfect work to evoke the teenage memories of our generation." A total of 1 hour contains all the elements of first love, and naturally there is no time for procrastination and redundancy. If this animation is compared to text, what kind of text should it be? Like a prose poem, it is filled with the sensibility and tenderness of the spring and the snow, but it is as cold and ruthless as an essay, and it breaks through all the coolness and iron laws of the world. If you compare this animation to music, what kind of music should it be? Singing and whispering like a serenade, it flows like water, but when the song ends, it pierces your heart like a heavy rock. Such a complex and unified style, a tragicomedy that is both a tragedy and a comedy, can only be life, your life and mine.

Sakura Copy -

The first episode of "5 Centimeters Per Second" is called "Sakura Copy". Just listening to the name is so beautiful. It is about elementary school students in Tokyo, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, hugging each other special Feelings, after graduation, Akari had to transfer to Tochigi. From then on, the two could not meet every day as before, and could only keep in touch by means of letters. In the blink of an eye, Takaki will also leave Tokyo with the family transfer, and his destination will be the most distant Kagoshima. Before leaving on March 4th, a day with heavy snowfall, Takaki resolutely took the Shinkansen after school and embarked on a journey to meet Mingli.

Each of us will experience love, but in the senior grades of elementary school and junior high school, if the first love at this age is "lovely", if you can be liked by the person you like, it will be the most beautiful wealth in life one. This is because, in the early years of love, everyone is dizzy, thinking that they are a prince on a white horse, or a princess waiting to be woken up by a kiss, so most people like it and take it for granted that it matches them. Yes, there are only a handful of outstanding people of the opposite sex around them. As a result, "being loved" has become a luxury. In other words, at this age, the "love between the two" is something that most people wanted to experience at the time but couldn't experience it. So when Guishu grabbed Mingli's hand and walked out of the classroom where the two people's "gossip" was roaring, the sound from the classroom would turn into a sound of tsk tsk envy. Perhaps in the eyes of those in that class, this is the perfect fairy tale of Prince Charming and Snow White.

Unfortunately, life is not a fairy tale. They didn't know how long they planned and worked hard side by side before they were admitted to the same junior high school? If fate doesn't interfere, they still want to go to the same high school, university, and even stay together for life in this way? However, the gear of fate will eventually turn, stirring up the whistling north wind; the wine of the two children's house, like the letter written by Guishu to Mingli, is destined to be taken away from them by the cold wind, and in the snow The ground rolled up and down, and was finally carried into the dark clouds in the sky, without a trace. Tokyo to Tochigi, such a distance, for a child before the advent of mobile phones, is the ends of the earth; three years of junior high school, for a villain with only twelve or three years of life, it is half a lifetime. The two were sobbing like that, and they also knew that once they let go of each other's hands, they would be squeezed farther and farther in the crowd, but it was only a matter of time.

But half a year later, Mingli still wrote to Guishu. This is how life is. Almost all the truths can be known at the age of eight or nine; but that is only "knowing", not "understanding"; you must experience fall again and again, in ten, twenty years or even a lifetime. After that, you can really comprehend one by one. Even this truth itself can only be understood after experiencing at least one heavy fall. Mingli and Guishu, such two first-year children, will of course not understand, they will think that the human heart can conquer distance, time, destiny, and everything in life. "You see, we are still in the same mind, still breathing together, the ends of the earth, what is it?" They must have thought this way. They don't know, this is just the beginning.

Your tree is going to Kagoshima. After that, the distance between the two will surpass their concept of space; the length of loneliness that this distance will lead to will surpass their concept of time. The two will be separated by the speeding train, by the weak water that does not carry goose feathers, and by the vast galaxy. They found that their efforts turned out to be useless. The two people tried their best to get one step closer, and countless force majeure would pull them ten or a hundred steps away.

"So, we must meet. We must give each other enough faith, courage, and perseverance to meet this unprecedented disaster." So the 13-year-old boy took a 3-hour drive , across the entire Kanto Plain, to meet the 13-year-old girl.

If the movie is not played, we also know: how many noon stomachs did I get hungry enough to save enough money for a round-trip ticket? How many times did you check the route and transfer station repeatedly, and it was the first time to go on such a long trip alone? What kind of courage did the 13-year-olds have to face their family members the next day, so they dared to stay home all night?

A warrior who sacrificed his life in the tiger's den for his lover, a knight who embarked on a journey to slay dragons for a princess, and a saint who bravely entered the Zodiac for Athena, but that's all. We will still fall in love as adults, but not like this again. We will no longer struggle for a tiny one percent of hope, and we will not even have the courage and determination to struggle for that hope.

Such a journey is to save the love in his life; at the same time, it is the epitome and fable of his own love. The end, which was originally infinity, was even more distant because of the heavy snow. Fighting, bloodshed, fierce battles, the 13-year-old Guishu is definitely not afraid to defend his love and his heart in any fierce way. However, unfortunately, the reality is not a legend, nothing will happen, but time is passing by second by second. The young man finally felt the malice of time, and finally realized that the human heart is so naked and unable to resist in front of time that he can only lose all his strength little by little. Finally, for the first time, he said "Mingri, please, don't... just go home", which ran counter to his original purpose.

finally reached. Mingli's slender figure seemed to have fallen asleep under the dim light; then the two of them happily shared a lunch box, the heavenly warm rock boat station, the most beautiful cherry tree in the world; and then, the kiss.

"At that moment, I seemed to know where my eternity, my heart and my soul were, as if I shared everything in the thirteen years with each other; the next moment after this was an incomparable sadness, because Mingli's warmth, her soul, I don't know how to cherish it and where to take it. I know very well that after this, we can't stay together forever. What stands in front of us is a huge life, and what separates us is a vast and boundless time, which makes us powerless. But the unease that bound me finally slowly melted away, and what remained was the touch brought by Akari's soft lips."

Before the arrival of March 4th, the two thought that when they saw each other, they could confide in all languages ​​and solve all problems. After seeing the other party, only to find that, more than joy, it is actually confused. I am afraid that only after all this will I know, if my immature shoulders are not enough to carry a heavy life, can the other party's equally immature shoulders be enough? The two little people are confused, don't say what to say or do now, after the arrangement, they are at a loss. The two even prepared a letter each, thinking that this was a "wedding ring" that could be privately set for life. Fortunately, sometimes, a thousand words can be conveyed so easily to another person; a kiss is everything...

No matter how huge life is, no matter how vast time is, we can't let go without trying our best. each other; because the person I'm kissing now is my everything... Maybe one day I'll grow up, maybe one day I'll mature, but today's everything, I will never regret it in my life. This mood is the last word Mingli said to Takaki - "absolutely".

Distance, at the beginning of the cherry blossoms, is a train that can pass in half a minute; in the cherry blossoms, it is a desperate journey to connect Tokyo and Tochigi; after the cherry blossoms, it is Tokyo and Kagoshima, distance of a lifetime.

Astronaut - Time

The story of "Astronaut" is transferred to Tanegashima, Japan's space base; the perspective of the story is transferred from junior high school student Tono Takaki to high school student Sumida Hanae. Hanami, who has a crush on transfer student Takaki Tono, has been unable to express her love. After knowing that Takaki is going to a university in Tokyo, she decides to speak her mind.

Unlike falling in love, unrequited love belongs to everyone. "Which girl doesn't have sex? Which man doesn't fall in love?" The common plots, common tricks, and well-known scheming of unrequited lovers are fully demonstrated in the film within a few minutes. However, there is nothing more accurate than that sentence - "As soon as I get to Tono-kun's side, I will feel a huge sadness."

What kind of life perception, what kind of language skills, can so easily and accurately summarize the voices of all the secret lovers who are not watched by the people they love? This kind of grief makes the heart as fragile as glass, and the tears are like spring water; such grief is really unbearable for life. So confession is the inevitable result of secret love, even if I risk going to hell; because I love you and can't get the slightest response, I was already struggling in the abyss of hell.

However, love is not something that can be won by careful words and heartfelt confessions, and it is not even something that can be won by hard work alone. As soon as the opposite sex meets, they will give each other a score in their hearts, and this score determines the possibility of falling in love with the opposite sex. To change this score, it is necessary to change appearance, family, status, talent, knowledge, money, many things that cannot be changed by hard work or have nothing to do with hard work at all. Love is so secular. The creator's purpose in designing love is to make it secular.

Of course, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old Huamiao didn't know this, or rather, didn't understand it. Tono-kun is so nice! He always aims high and looks far into the distance; he is not ambitious to do all this, his eyes are ethereal and untouched by vulgarity. Our audience can also see that Tono-kun is so good! Teenage boys know how to treat girls gently, not to hurt those they don't love, and not to expose her tricks and thoughts.

However, it is precisely because of this that such a Tono noble tree is destined not to be a flower seedling. Their lives will never intersect again; just like a spaceship heading towards the depths of the solar system, from beginning to end, they never overlooked the earth beneath their feet even for a single glance; they just went away, blindly rushing into the distance.

So, after seeing such a magnificent launch, Huamiao understood everything; and then she would never make a confession that was bound to be rejected, but just waited for time and slowly calmed her heartache and pain. The woman with the ponytail in Chapter 3 is not Hua Miao. Huamiao has no ability to accompany your tree to such a distant place, nor will it go that far. Although it sounds cruel, unrequited love is not love after all; unrequited love is not love after all. A kiss is not enough to settle the relationship, let alone running alone from beginning to end? Flower seedlings will have their own happiness, just not with the precious trees.

But seeing the rocket launch, Guishu resonated in my heart: "It was really an unimaginable lonely journey - in the deep darkness, moving in only one direction. Even if it was A small hydrogen atom is rare. With the heart to explore the secrets of the world, I dive into the endless abyss with confidence - and where will we go? Where can we go?"

Time has passed Tear the former eachother to shreds. How long can communication last on the basis of shared memories from elementary school? Soon I will be unable to write, and soon there will be too many feelings and experiences to share, and soon, we will be separated...

So, the tall tree in high school is just writing, never information sent. His dream is just to watch a sunrise with Mingli, because it's been too long, they can't even share a sunrise.

Does Guishu still love Mingli? it seems that. But what are you eating now? what to wear? Thinking what? What does Mingli look like now? what kind of person? I don't know, I don't know. Then why does Guishu love Mingli? What Takaki loves is the Mingli in his memory, the Mingli that no longer exists. Your tree's love is already in ruins. So his journey, his soul, is like an ice surface that can't be splashed by a single ripple, a spaceship that can't be encountered by hydrogen atoms.

High school is the most confused era, I don't know where my future is, where I'm going, or even who I really am. What makes Guishu different from his peers, and what seems to be better than his peers, is that he seems to know everything in the future, and he is full of confidence, as if he is taciturn and lonely because he stands out from the crowd. In fact, only he knew in his heart that the place he stood by was always just a ruin; the place he ran towards was destined to be nothing but a void. Even if he knew this in his heart, he had to rush down according to inertia and along the track determined by the kiss of the past; he had to deceive himself, as long as he worked hard, he could overcome his fate and change his life; otherwise, his entire life would collapse. It is not so much that he is guarding love at this time; it is better to say that he is guarding his life and the original dream of life.

He is far, far away from that snowy night; far, far away from the future when he grows up; far, far away from the person who loves him and the person he loves - separating him and all of this Yes, it is time, an endless stretch of time.

Chapter 3 - The tree of liberation

finally grew up, but found that after growing up, he still couldn't, that is to say, he would never be able to solve some of the problems he wanted to solve the most. He was admitted to a university in Tokyo, and stayed in Tokyo to work, but finally, like an exploration satellite that was about to complete its journey, he exhausted all his strength and was exhausted. He finally found that "in the past few years, I have been walking with my head down, just thinking about getting what I can't get, but I don't know what it is. And this idea that came from nowhere gradually became a This kind of oppression, so I can only rely on non-stop work to get rid of. When I woke up, I could only feel the pain in my gradually stiff heart. Then one morning, I found that the feelings that I had always remembered - have been completely lost."

The success of adults will not be as easy as one or two good grades in the school days, and the love of adults will not be as poetic as the stories that once happened in the library. Life after adulthood is destined to be included in the realistic track of the grandparents, destined to gradually move away from the dreamy colors such as cherry blossoms and snowy moon. Guishu resigned from his job as a clerk, but he couldn't get rid of the fate of a clerk; the confession of his prospective girlfriend who was also a clerk only made Guishu feel pale and powerless. He is eager to become famous, to prove himself, to have the power to protect Mingli, and to have a reason to find Mingli, but in the face of reality, all this can only be an extravagant hope slowly stifled by time. He missed his first love so much, he thought it was persistence; he pinned all the truth, goodness and beauty on Akari, who would never meet again, he thought it was persistence; in the end, he found that it was just escaping, escaping from reality, escaping his ideals and dignity as a man. The reality of ruthless destruction and trampling. So he collapsed, all his hallucinations, all his self-consolation vanished, and he saw that his life was in ruins; he couldn't become Romeo, he couldn't become Liang Shanbo, any means of violent self-release, including death, would As far as modern men are concerned, it can only be an illusion away from reality. He had no other choice. After suffering and struggling, he could only return to reality, and in the end, he could only get away from everything he once had. This is fate, it is liberation, but it is also a complete adulthood. In the future, it will only be the warmth of the empty time, the sadness of the empty time, just the memory, the memory of the most original point of life.

Mingli already has his own happiness, and is about to marry someone; in the near future, Guishu will also have his own happiness. Both he and she will be happy, but their respective happiness is no longer in each other's hands. His story with her is coming to an end.

Another year of spring, the cherry blossoms are still colorful and the sun is shining. He passed her at the train crossing. He looked back suddenly, and after the train passed, there was no one on the opposite side. So he smiled, very lightly. This year, they were twenty-seven years old.



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5 Centimeters per Second quotes

  • [first lines]

    Akari Shinohara: Hey... They say it's five centimeters per second.

    Takaki Toono: What do you mean?

    Akari Shinohara: The speed at which the sakura blossom petals fall... Five centimeters per second.

  • Takaki Toono: It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.