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Your Name. is a Japanese animated film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. Released in China in December 2016, the film was critically acclaimed, with a Douban rating of 8.4, a rarity in animated films. Makoto Shinkai's delicate portrayal of animation and the description of the aesthetic style and unique storyline are amazing, and it is a masterpiece in animated films.
The film is mainly about the male protagonist Taki in Tokyo and the heroine Mitsuba, who has lived in the town of Mori since childhood, and often exchange bodies to live for each other through dreams. Unexpectedly, they are in two different timelines, the intersection of time and space and the emergence of meteorites, which has triggered a series of tearful search and rescue stories, and also outlined the feelings of the two beyond friendship, which is touching.
Director Makoto Shinkai is also due to "Your Name." won the Best Screenplay Award at the 40th Japan Academy Awards. He may also want to use this film to tell modern people that although thoughts and distance are the solid wall that hinders a pair of feelings, if you can take the initiative to meet difficulties and break this solid wall, most of the feelings can be fulfilled and sublimated.
I have brushed this film three times, but every time I watch it, I will still be touched by the same plot. So I want to express the three aspects that I think are the most important in the form of words. Therefore, this article will analyze the connotation and value of the film through the three aspects of "creative method, emotional expression and theme presentation", the first two aspects, and finally I will talk about the two topics of fate and effort through my own understanding of the film, and express my feelings and thoughts.
Below I will focus on these three aspects to specifically express and describe:
(1) Creative method: Through the exchange of bodies, different time and environment, and the penetration of knotted ropes, the novelty and uniqueness of the story plot are revealed.
The seemingly bland exchange plot actually shows the direction of the new anime.
Through different time and environments, the audience can feel the wonderful connection of time and the beautiful picture of the contrast between cities and towns.
With the dark line of "knot rope", the two are tightly tied together, reflecting the director's superb creative technique.
(2) Emotional expression: The director reveals the emotions and temperature that a boy and a girl should have from the two protagonists of Taki and Mitsuba.
Male protagonist Taki: Although he has a large personality, he is sincere and brave, showing the charm that a boy should have.
Heroine Mitsuba: Although she is estranged from her father, she is sensual and cute, yearning for life in Tokyo, and has a unique girlish temperament.
(3) Theme presentation: Through the exchange story of the male and female protagonists, the film presents the fate of the two and the results of each other's efforts, and also makes us have a deeper understanding of life.
Fate is a very magical thing, and to meet must be cherished.
The effort will not be in vain, even if it is difficult, you must look for Mitsuba like Taki, and do not give up easily.
From the perspective of creative techniques, the film exchanges bodies between male and female protagonists and lives at different times. And the living environment of the two protagonists is also very different, one in a big city and one in a small township. The film's storyline is also particularly scarce that contemporary animation does not have, although the film seems complex, but in fact the main line is clear and clear, and the transition of each plot is quite natural, and I will analyze it in detail.
(1) The seemingly bland exchange plot actually shows the development direction of the new anime.
At the beginning of the film, Taki and Mitsuba's adult life in Tokyo, but they always wake up in the morning and cry unconsciously, and feel that they have always forgotten something. Presumably, many viewers are a little confused here, but the story immediately enters the time when the two bodies exchanged a few years ago.
In 2013, fragments from a comet split struck the town where The Trilodon is located, and before that. The male protagonist Taki and the female protagonist Mitsuba once exchanged bodies for a while. When he wakes up, Taki finds himself in a country town, and his soul enters the body of a girl, which makes him frightened.
Thinking that he was dreaming, he went to school in a trance. But because he had no memories of Mitsuba at all, he did a lot of very outrageous things. The kind of personality "Fan" that Taki showed in Mitsuba's school made the boys in the school very moved, and the contrast brought by Mitsuba to her classmates also made many boys feel good about her.
In Tokyo, Mitsuba wakes up and finds herself in the body of a boy she never knew, and she feels uncomfortable at first. But when I went out, I found that Tokyo was so desirable, and there were many things that were not available in the countryside. Then she thought she was dreaming, so she began to eat and drink with Taki's wallet, during which she also helped Taki's body to chase after the goddess predecessor to date.
I think, "Your Name." " is an innovative way of animation presentation, which gives animation a new direction of development. At the very least, I feel that this kind of anime film exchanged between men and women plus delicate and beautiful picture production has given me a good visual impact and spiritual touch. I learned that animated films can also be made like this, and I think it should also give a lot of directors an inspiration.
(2) Through different time and environments, let the audience feel the wonderful connection of time and the beautiful picture of the contrast between cities and towns.
It is not difficult to find that the story revolves around two timelines. One was before the meteorite fell in 2013, and the other was in 2016 after The Death of Triloba. But it was a coincidence that their time was connected in tandem, and they exchanged bodies many times in their dreams.
In 2013, the town of Shishou felt like a small village surrounded by greenery, and the film portrays this section of scenery as fascinating, like a paradise that many people dream of. Even the breakfast at the Mitsuba family is depicted as particularly appetizing. The most important thing is that the environment here sets off the peace of the town, and it is not at all obvious that it is about to become a ruin.
On the other timeline, the male protagonist Taki, lives in Tokyo, which can be described as a huge contrast with the town of Shishou. It's full of high-rise buildings, cafes and fine dining restaurants that the town has never heard of, a variety of shopping malls and places for men and women to date. The film depicts the image of a big city.
(3) The dark line of "knotted rope" is used to tie the two people tightly together, reflecting the director's superb creative technique.
First of all, the story begins directly with Mitsuba going to Tokyo to find Taki. At that time, Mitsuba didn't know that Taki didn't actually know her, after all, she didn't know that she and Taki were not on the same channel. And when Mitsuba finds Taki on the train, Taki doesn't know her, and feels that this girl is weird.
So Mitsuba got out of the car in frustration, but at this moment, the knot rope on his head seemed to make Taki sense something, and shouted loudly to Mitsuba. Mitsuba threw the knot rope to Taki when he was about to be squeezed out of the car, thus establishing the fate between them.
Later, in search of Mitsuba, Taki noticed a knotted rope on his wrist. It is precisely because of the series of knots on the wrist that they will definitely meet again. After all, Mitsuba's grandmother once said: The knotted rope we weave is the work of God, embodying the flow of time, bringing together the silk threads to form, twist, wind, sometimes reduce, break, and connect again, that is the birth of the spirit, that is time.
In the end, the two meet without seeing each other, relying on the feeling of the knot rope. And in the end, it was also because of the strength of the knotted rope that the two of them sensed each other on the overpass after the rain, and finally met and knew each other's names. The knotted rope can be said to run through this film. As a dark line, always the driving force behind the development of the storyline.
Having just shared the content of the film's creative method, let's talk about my views on emotional expression. The male and female protagonists in the film have their own distinctive characteristics. The male protagonist Taki is sincere but has a large personality; while the female protagonist Mitsuba is sensual and cute and yearns for the life of the metropolis. As the inheritor of the Miyamizu Shrine, she also has a lot of estrangement from her father.
Next, I will talk about my understanding of the personalities of the male and female protagonists and make a proper analysis:
(1) Male protagonist Taki: Although he has a large personality, he is sincere and brave, showing the charm that a boy should have.
Taki lives in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and is a high school student. In my opinion, he has a unique talent for sketching, loves basketball, and is a lively and cheerful person with a big personality. After exchanging bodies with Mitsuba, he repeatedly disregarded Mitsuba's image of a girl and made some out-of-the-ordinary behaviors and actions, and was often accused by Mitsuba.
But he also has a brave and non-giving up character, mainly in the fact that when he goes to the town to look for Mitsuba, he finds that Mitsuba is long gone. But after remembering the legendary chewing wine before, he went to the shrine alone to serve in the palace without regard for his safety, and drank the chewing wine that Mitsuba had placed there three years ago. He then returned to Mitsuba's body in 2013 to save Mitsuba and the people of the town, thus rewriting history.
Personally, this quality of Taki is less and less in modern boys, many boys have been pampered since childhood, and have lost their due responsibilities and responsibilities, let alone risking to save others. The image of the male protagonist Taki created by Makoto Shinkai may also be a kind of appeal, hoping that more young people will have responsibility and responsibility, and not blindly be timid and afraid of things.
(2) Heroine Mitsuba: Although she is estranged from her father, she is sensual and cute, yearning for life in Tokyo, and has a unique girlish temperament.
Mitsuba was born in the japanese countryside of Shimomori And has been the inheritor of Miyashuni Shrine for generations. Growing up in the countryside, she has always longed for a metropolis like Tokyo and wants to escape from this town quickly. But coincidentally, she actually exchanged her body with Taki, who lives in Tokyo, and experienced a period of time in Tokyo, which is even more determined that she will go to Tokyo to live in the future. In my opinion. Mitsuba belongs to the kind of girl who is gentle and cute, such as being spoiled and angry in front of Taki, or the satisfaction of eating delicious food to the fullest.
As the inheritor of the Miyamizu family, her relationship with her father was not very good. In the film, Mitsuba's mother died when she was a child, and her father was sad and unwilling to continue to serve the shrine. So he lived separately from Mitsuba's family, so Mitsuba had a great estrangement from his father.
I feel like the relationship between modern children and parents. There is a greater or less barrier between children and their parents, and they cannot understand each other very well because they talk very little. This is actually a problem left over from the development of modern society. Many children have been brought up by their grandparents since they were young, and when they were young, they had fewer opportunities to meet their parents, and when they grew up, they naturally did not understand.
(1) Fate is a very magical thing, and we must cherish it when we meet.
Your Name. One of the thoughts that touched me the most was actually about fate. If we think about it, the story goes that everyone in the Miyamizu family exchanged bodies with boys from the outside world when they were young, and Mitsuba exchanged exactly Taki. In the metropolis of Tokyo, if it is randomly chosen, the probability of the exchange and subsequent encounter between the two is almost zero, so the encounter is fate, and it must be cherished.
Fate is a very magical thing, it can't be touched, but it firmly grasps the lifeblood of two people. It's the same in life, no matter who we meet in the journey of life, the probability of it appearing is close to 0%, but you still meet. So cherish everyone you meet, maybe his appearance will change the direction of your life.
It's like Mitsuba in the movie meets Taki, allowing her to change history and come back to life. The seemingly in-the-dark arrangement, in fact, Taki's efforts and persistence have changed this situation. So in other words, we are the same, don't wait until you miss it to regret that you didn't confess, sometimes insist, work hard, maybe you will succeed.
(2) Efforts will not be in vain, and even if it is difficult, do not give up easily, just like Takitachi looking for Mitsuba.
Everyone must have given up more or less, perhaps because the job assessment is too difficult. Or you can't stick to it after working overtime. In fact, if you insist on it more, you may have a different result. Man is a lazy creature, and if there is a seemingly difficult task around him, I believe that the vast majority of people simply intend to start, but simply give up.
If we savor the film, we will know that when Taki finds that he can no longer contact Mitsuba, his instinct is to use his only memory to draw a map of the town, and then go to find Mitsuba, rather than giving up the attitude of indifference. This also tells us that everyone, whether in life or work, should have the good habit of striving for progress, no matter how much difficulty they encounter, they must first think about how to solve it, rather than blindly avoiding and giving up.
This actually requires us to change our thinking, such as using 5w3h analysis, or learning critical thinking, which are all methods that are very helpful for us to solve problems, and it is worth trying.
I think it should be Your Name. " tells me the most common but most important truth.
Your Name. This movie, which seems to be a love film exchanged between men and women, actually contains many truths that make us think. The insistence of the male protagonist Taki and the wonderful arrangement of trying to save Mitsuba and fate have made the two meet again, which have inspired our attitude towards life and our responsibility. Of course, everyone has their own different understanding of this movie, and I believe you also have your own feelings and thoughts.