I don't remember your name, but I always remember your gentle eyes

Ernestine 2022-03-24 09:01:35

"Your Name" directed by Makoto Shinkai has been shown in various places, and the box office reputation has reached its peak! The director who started his career with short films has a clear and bright painting style, just like his line of pure love, which can always make people find their own shadows in a quiet atmosphere. It wasn't until the year before last that I had the opportunity to see the early "Five Centimeters Per Second". At that time, I only felt that the stories of first love were very similar, and that kind of paranoid inexplicable persistence seemed to only exist during first love, and it seemed like a hit from the beginning to the end. doomed. My initial impression of Makoto Shinkai's film is like the feeling of first love: I always feel a little disappointed when I think of it, but I always remember the unique sweet and sour taste. I especially like "The Garden of Words" three years ago. The image of rain cools the sultry summer, and the company under the cool courtyard in the rain also washes away the unknown sadness in the heart.

Compared with the previous work, "Your Name" has more comedy elements, and there are several chest touching scenes. In addition to being funny, it still feels very pure love. world. No matter how old we are, no matter how old we are, we all hope that there is a person in our life who is connected with us. That person may be thousands of miles away, and there are very few opportunities to meet, but as long as you meet, you will know that (he & she) is the person you have been waiting for. "Your name" still has more time and space, but the people who will meet will meet eventually. It is a love movie, and it is not only a love movie: because I like someone, I find that I can do anything! Struggling to change the fate of the other party also indirectly changed his own destiny. It is true that man cannot conquer the sky, but love may. Some people say that the format of love movies is always small, but I think the size of the format has nothing to do with the theme, and it has to do with what you really want to express. When Xiaoqing Xiaoai becomes the reason for self-growth, and then becomes the promoter of saving others, this pattern is actually not small at all.

Makoto Shinkai's world is clean and transparent. It doesn't seem to matter who the object of love is. What matters is the heart that accompanies each other through the rainy season of life at critical moments. There is a natural warmth in the beautiful picture, just like Makoto Shinkai's gentle eyes, tearing off the customary labels in this world without any effort.


[The new generation of love concept: I like you, I must go to see you]

I remember that most of the audience who watched the movie with me were high school and college students, and the atmosphere of watching the movie was as youthful as "Your Name"! It can be felt that the young audience is quite engaged, and the laughter and tears are quite consistent. I was a little puzzled at the time. Although I also feel that I can watch Makoto Shinkai's movies on the big screen, watching the exquisite details from the enlarged screen is enough to move people! But "Your Name" seems to be a little less in my heart than the previous work "The Garden of Words"? The answer I got later was: generational differences.

So, I watched "Five Centimeters Per Second" again, but this time it was closer to the incomprehensible mentality of my first love when I was young. When I liked someone at that time, it was more important to keep a unique secret than to express it. In my memory, there are more diaries than love letters. Although he will also worry about gains and losses, he has never actively moved forward to get rid of this feeling. Compared with getting someone, the deeper meaning of first love to oneself may be to begin to understand that regret is the beginning of growth.

However, the new generation's view of love is just the opposite. They tend to talk more with the person they like and less with themselves. The way of falling in love is unpredictable. Like Taki and Mitsuha, they get to know each other through each other's mobile phones. Although they exchange bodies, there is no face-to-face contact at all, but this does not hinder the emotional communication between the two. Once you find yourself in love with the other person, your subconscious is not to dodge, but to face it. What impresses me the most in the movie is that the two of them went to each other's cities to find each other without an agreement, and their attitudes were positive and brave, which extended to changing their destiny with their own power, which was more convincing.

Whether we will be together or not? If I like you, I must go to see you, so that love not only exists in my imagination, but also gives me a better possibility to keep moving forward. Recalling that in the university class, the most trouble students face when facing the person they like is no longer whether to confess or not, but how to face each other after the confession fails? Or even though you are already with the person you like, but you seem to have met someone you like more, what should I do? From the way of love, I feel that the times are indeed different. The only thing that is the same is that there is still only one "Taki" and "Mitsuba" destined for everyone. Can we meet? Or does it depend on how much you want to meet? It is only possible if you truly believe in it.


[Redefining the space-time distance: your influence on me determines our distance]

In the movie, Mitsuha and Taki have an intersection in different time and space. In the process of becoming each other, they unknowingly talked about a long-distance love with a time difference. From being a stranger to inadvertently breaking into each other's world: Mitsuha has become a gentle and delicate Taki, and Taki has become a bold and handsome Mitsuha. From knowing nothing about the other party to becoming a better self for the other party, it is like exchanging half of yourself with the other party, thus merging into a better Mitsuha and another better Taki. Their actual distance is farther than any long-distance love couple, but the heart distance may be closer than the couple who get together day and night.

In fact, whether or not love can continue has nothing to do with distance. What is really related is the influence of the two people on each other in the depths of their hearts. How much love there is, how much influence there is. I like that "Your Name" redefines the space-time distance between lovers: your influence on me determines our distance and our future. Let love no longer be limited to the momentary splendor of the moment, but the eternal light that illuminates each other's lives. When Taki and Mitsuha grew up full of doubts but still followed each other's footsteps according to their intuition, they instantly remembered the lyrics of an old song by Wan Fang: "Even if the time and space change, and the appearance changes, I still remember the attachment in your eyes. . 'So, it doesn't matter what your name is, the tenderness in each other's eyes is what love will never change.

If a director's current works represent his outlook on life at the moment, "your name" may be that director Makoto Shinkai wants us to forget all the labels that are placed on people in the emotional world, including the name of the lover, and only be true to our inner truth. a feeling of. This movie can represent the love story of a new generation, or it can be a testimony that people of different generations still believe in love. It is an absolute pure love movie, and it is also a movie that a person grows up with love. Let me understand: what makes love fascinating is its unpredictability and unfathomable depth. It can make you trapped in a small world with only one person in your heart, and it can also make you omnipotent in the big world in order to have a small world with two people together!

Although "Your Name" is not my favorite Shinkai film, the influence of this film will go down in the annals of animation history, whether it is a light or a deep feeling, it is just right in that incredibly beautiful world. Loving someone deeply is the most beautiful thing in an imperfect world.




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Your Name. quotes

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: Oh, this...

    Taki Tachibana: Oh. Really, why'd you come see me before I knew you? There's no way I'd recognize you. Here I kept it for 3 years. Now you keep it.

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Yes!

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: Kataware-doki is almost...

    Taki Tachibana: over.