When all the wandering and persistence have been exhausted, they still can't wait for the dreamed happiness. Looking at the train full of hurrying pedestrians, roaring past the railroad tracks of the years, and then, I can only let the scattered cherry blossoms bury the vows silently. I almost forgot that at the beginning of the story, the girl made a promise to the protagonist on the side of the level crossing: "Let's watch the cherry blossoms together next year", but then the roar of the locomotive was blazing between the two of them, which was drowned in the noise. Just a few steps away has become a distance they will never be able to cross. We are too looking forward to the perfect ending like a fairy tale, and we are too immersed in the fantasy that lovers should be married, but Makoto Shinkai calmly tells us that this is a bland story that happens every day in real life. Even if you send 110,000 text messages, you can't make the distance between you and me one centimeter. The so-called cherry blossoms fall, but the speed of separation of loved ones. Slowly, but irrevocably, evaporated in the noisy, confused world.
After the monologue
and the music at the end of the film, I realized that the whole story is just the monologue of the hero Takaki alone.
From the very beginning, it was Guishu who read Mingli's letter in a fief. When people go to the empty library after school, in the tired playground dyed red by the sunset, on the way home along the lonely wires, in all the lonely days of the teenager, the voice of Mingli's youthful trembling like a deer When it sounded, it was Guishu who kept thinking about those warm words. He recalled the happy time he had with Mingli before, the kind of happiness brought by the kind of heart-to-heart bond that was like the bright sunshine on the cherry blossom road in the afternoon, when he returned to the room every night and wrote every word under the lamp when he returned to the room Circling in the brain. However, this letter, which carried restrained but deep feelings, was blown away by the wind on the railway platform, just like a paper airplane hovering alone in the dark sky on a windy night, just like the boy character in the whole story. Tens of thousands of narrations can't convey the monologue in the female lead's heart.
Arriving at the sunny Tanegashima Island, Takaki just kept telling his thoughts in the other world in his dreams. We listened to the lively flower seedlings narrating the development of our own feelings and stories little by little, watching the blurry eyes of the noble tree quietly sending text messages, we take it for granted that it is sent to the longing for the loved ones in the distance, Only when Guishu deleted the text messages that filled the screen at night, did we know that it was just another self-talk. Even Huamiao's thoughts became a monologue. The thoughts that can't be conveyed to Takaki are intertwined with Takaki's deep forbearance, turning into a dead knot that can't be untied.
In the world of Makoto Shinkai, there are always people muttering in the delicate background, Mikako in "The Voice of the Stars", Hiroshi in "Beyond the Cloud, The Promised Place", in "She and Her Cat" It is the cat adopted by the heroine. However, no single monologue has the bitterness and confusion in the voice of an adult noble tree, it is the unforgettable feelings that have passed over time, the obsession and pursuit of oneself lost their way in the muddled, the search and the giving up while waiting The voice of remorse. Watching Guishu walk through the crowd, his eyes wandering, or sitting on the steps breathing a little smoke, I understand that the story may be heading in the most unwilling direction.
"If I turn around at this time, I have a strong feeling that she will also turn around." However, this last possibility was also crushed to ashes by the passing tram, along with the lonely words that disappeared in the singing.
It is said that the lethality of the speed to boys is endless, I think it may be because it tells the story from a purely male perspective. Even in the second episode "Astronaut", Hua Miao's perspective is just to set off the loneliness of your tree. In a trance, I feel that I am this lost boy, repeating my past, those confusions, those disappointments and self-blame.
Two distances, the eternal story of Makoto Shinkai
Watching the cloud and smoke left by the aircraft gradually dissipate with the wind, Hua Miao finally realized that this boy who likes to look into the distance and the sky has never had any space in his heart. He seems to be texting someone all the time, always staring at the deep place behind him. However, it is the difference that seems to be in a different world that attracts girls. Gu Cheng wrote: "When you look at me, it's far away, and when you look at the clouds, it's very close." It's like a crystal solidified in front of you but can never be touched, like a love that can never be expressed by your side. That is the distance between hearts, the most difficult gulf for human beings to cross.
Distance is the story that Makoto Shinkai will always tell the most persistently.
In "Voice of the Stars", in order to fight against alien enemies, Asheng and Mikako are separated by space and time; in "Yunbi", Sayuri's sleep makes her and Hiroki separated by the long distance between the real and the illusory worlds . Fortunately, the distance of time and space can be crossed by missing, and A Sheng and Mikako finally said in unison: "I'm here"; the distance between the two worlds can also be broken by true love, and Hiroshi finally came to the cloud with Sayuri. The white giant tower on the other side, the place they agreed.
However, Guishu and Mingli eventually became strangers.
At first, they were not disturbed by the hustle and bustle of the world. At that time, Guishu could run along the corridor of the school with Mingli regardless of everyone's attention. Even after the initial transfer, they could still feel like cherry blossoms falling with pure thoughts. Embracing each other in the snow, there is no estrangement in their hearts. But the fickleness of the world is more powerful, so we see that your life on Tanegashima Island is lifeless as if you have lost your soul. Confused eyes, always walking thoughtfully, writing text messages without the recipient's address on the windy grass, and the fluorescence of the screen is even more turbid in his eyes. We have no way of knowing if they had lost touch, what kept them from exchanging letters, all we knew was the boy's unforgettable yearning that loomed over his whole life, and the yearning itself was so powerful that the object of the yearning Also starting to get blurry. He stepped on the grass of alien stars in countless dreams (like Sayuri in a different world and Hiroshi met in a dream), and the huge planet rising from the horizon tore the clouds into scattered flakes However, we couldn't see the face of the girl next to us, all we could see was the smile on the corner of the mouth. Only on the day when the spaceship was successfully launched did the girl in the dream really show her eyes. But those rising clouds and smoke are "things that gradually fade away like clouds and smoke", and your tree, like an astronaut who has already taken off, "walks forward blindly in the real darkness, just believing that there is a world in that abyss. The mysteries are waiting to be explored for yourself.” In the lonely journey, each other's hearts are drifting apart.
Back in the city, and experiencing a complex society and a chaotic world, Guishu lost his way in his persistence. He said in a bitter voice: "I want to move forward and touch the untouchable, although I don't know what that means". In the gigantic life and the vague flow of time, in the recollection of the past and the contradictory reality, he no longer knows where to go. In this unimaginably lonely journey in the crowd, all he has left is instinct to walk the same road over and over again, on the tram, on the overpass, on the path where the cherry blossoms fall in the spring, and on the flat at the end of the cherry blossoms. deal.
Countless times we thought about what would happen if they turned back earlier, what if the train hadn't left, if the girl hadn't left... But what we're looking forward to is that the two finally meet each other and have a big reunion when the cherry blossoms fall. What? What will be used to fill the distance between the two of them over the years, and what will be used to make them adapt to the realities of life that can no longer be changed? Therefore, Duoduo in "Paradise Cinema" can only leave his old first love in the end, so after the train left, Guishu looked at the empty road and just smiled slightly, then turned and left.
The distance between the railings on both sides of the train track is the distance between the heart of the precious tree. It is so close, but it can never be surpassed.
Three about structure, music and other
Makoto Shinkai is undoubtedly good at short stories, especially in the exquisite and fresh "She and Her Cat" which is only 5 minutes long. His only full-length novel, Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place, was also criticized for being too slow. And "5 Centimeters Per Second" can be seen as Makoto Shinkai's attempt at a new mode between long and short stories. In my opinion, this attempt was extremely successful. This method of short film collection not only retains the advantages of Makoto Shinkai's ability to build wonderful short stories, but also greatly enhances the hierarchy of the story structure, enriching the content and expression of the story.
If it wasn't for the progression of the three short films, you wouldn't be able to understand how Guishu gradually got lost in the pursuit, and finally buried his feelings quietly; if it wasn't broadcast in the form of TV animations, it would be hard for you to understand The feeling of that hazy memory passing by over time; look back at Sakura after the third episode, and you will find that, at the beginning, Akari crossed the railway, and Takaki was blocked by the train on the other side, "Look at the cherry blossoms together" The agreement was submerged in the background sound like some kind of fateful symbol.
Speaking of music, Tianmen, who has cooperated with Makoto Shinkai for a long time, has provided us with a very beautiful original sound that fits well with the original, but what is more worth mentioning is the theme song "One more time, one more chance". Used to listening to Tianmen's exquisite soundtrack, you may feel that this popular song of the last century is a bit inconsistent with the animation. After careful taste, you will find that only Yamazaki's voice full of vicissitudes and helplessness can truly reflect the inner cry of the hero, old man. Old songs will also remind the audience of those past times, those days with a little regret and confusion. Think about if you can go back in time, if you still have a chance to choose again.
As for Makoto Shinkai's best animation pictures, obviously, the exquisiteness of the pictures in the second speed has also reached a new level, the arc rolling on the top of the train carriage like a water current, the huge rocket lift off to divide the world into light and dark halves, and The mysterious and grand alien world and the city night scene with feasting and neon flickering are all amazing. Maybe the world in the eyes of Makoto Shinkai is so bright, gorgeous and delicate.
Maybe there are too many compliments, but that's because 5 centimeters per second deeply touched my heart. If the purpose of all images is simply to express, what better way to describe its excellence and success than to deeply impress the audience?
In the last scene, the boy and the girl found that if they turned around, they might have found and retrieved their long-buried relationship. They turned their eyes slowly with anticipation, worry, and unparalleled tension and excitement. That moment reminded me of the end of "The Butterfly Effect". Ashton Kutcher looked back at his beloved girl in the crowd. He gave everything for her again and again, but he could never be with her. He turned and left, too late to wait. The girl's eyes, full of hope, fell on herself. And this time, it was fate who made a joke with Guishu again, he was destined to lose this relationship in the plain and real life.
So there was no trace of people on the rails where the train left, only the bright but short-lived cherry blossoms were still falling at a speed of 5 centimeters per second.
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