I once saw such a moving text on the Internet: "Youth has an ageless face." Cicadas, tree shadows, white clouds, summer, piano sounds, baseball gloves, the cool breeze when riding to school, the sunset after school in the evening, the slight coolness between the library shelves, the never-ending hustle and bustle of the basketball court. Time rushes day after day, but the youth of peacetime seems to be like this forever. ”
In everyone's life, there seems to be some intercept point of memory, and when time reaches that cut-off point, it stops flowing. It's just that life pushes us forward, leaving an infinite nostalgia for a certain time and space.
The film shared today is also an animated feature film from more than a decade ago, carrying some simplicity and innocence that belong to the past era.
The Girl Who Traveled Through Time, Japan, 2006
Japanese animation director Morosoma Hosoda is not a prolific author, but has always been known for his good reputation. In the six years from 2006 to 2012, he directed three animated feature films that won the Japan Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the highest award in the Japanese animation film industry. One of the most well-known is the 2006 animated feature film The Girl Who Traveled Through Time. This warm and bright story about time has also touched the tenderness of people's hearts in different eras.
There is a short comment that ridicules the heroine Makoto: "She has a magical skirt that will never go out~!" ”
The 17-year-old Makoto Ayano is an ordinary and energetic girl, and she is an inseparable iron triangle party with her male classmate Chiaki and Kosuke. The lively and jumpy Zhenqin personality is also so-so, and missing the alarm clock, failing the exam, and clumsiness are commonplace. However, with her optimistic and cheerful nature, she shares the bits and pieces of the small group with her best partners carefree every day, and does not worry about the future. A pure and peaceful life seems to last forever.
The sister who has already seen through everything
Tempura makes daily rollovers
Helpless Makoto, while Chiaki, who was good at math behind him, had already finished his answer to sleep
The never-ending sound of cicadas and summer, the small group that accompanies home, the fun in the playground in the afternoon, and the discussion of selected essays or selections with girlfriends, these constitute the whole world around the 17-year-old Zhenqin.
Kensuke, who aspires to study medicine and is a righteous person, and Chiaki, a mischievous and unorthodox monkey who has only turned around in the spring
Even if the years are gentle, every summer in life always has to say goodbye, and this farewell often begins with the accident of hindsight.
The weekly test was smashed, the cooking class was once again out of trouble, and the confused Zhenqin encountered an unlucky day. When going to the laboratory to run an errand, there seemed to be a figure flashing outside the door, and the stunned Zhenqin accidentally fell on the flat ground, and her arm hit something like a walnut. On the way out of school, she was also laughed at by Chiaki. The sullen Zhenqin rode home alone, but the misfortune was not alone, and when it went downhill, the brakes failed again without warning, and the blank Zhenqin in his mind was knocked off with the car, and he was scared onto the tram that just drove by.
Makoto, who thought he was going to hang up like this, woke up unexpectedly again and found himself back a few minutes before the accident and successfully escaped the disaster.
Confused and confused, Zhenqin was overwhelmed and anxious to find her magical "witch" aunt. The aunt, who had always had a calm face, seemed to quickly accept this series of strange things that had happened to Makoto. She smiled faintly and said that Makoto might have gained the ability to jump in time.
Magical Witch Auntie
Depressed, Makoto really mastered the trick of time jumping after many attempts, and she immediately accepted the new setting on her body happily. The thick-leafed Makoto does not intend to use this superpower to do anything remarkable, but instead, she begins to jump in time for the trivial things in her life: to eat pudding before her sister, to get a good score in the math test, to stop making trouble in class, to take advantage of playing with Chiaki and Kosuke... Makoto's days immediately become beautiful – but sometimes the way time jumps out can hurt a bit.
Then we... Don't go!
The ability to travel through time and space is used for boring small things, which is worthy of a silly real qin.
At the same time, the satisfied Zhenqin is once again reminded by the witch aunt that changing the direction of her fate for her own good luck will cause misfortune to others? After all, time is fair.
Makoto was stunned, but she didn't quite understand.
The big boy Kosuke who is upright and sunny is confessed by the younger first-year student, and chiaki, on the way home on the bike to send Makoto home, also intentionally or unintentionally says to Makoto, "Associate with me." ”
The first time he was confessed, he was stunned
For the 17-year-old, happiness is just that she can always play with Kosuke Aomei Takema and the mischievous and playful Chiaki forever, always three people together, always friends who accompany each other, just friends.
So she did not hesitate to go back in time, constantly avoiding Chiaki, just to avoid provoking the ambiguity between the two people, and only so that she could continue to carefully maintain that the group of three people would not disperse.
Life becomes chaotic. In the days of hiding from Chiaki, Makoto also gradually discovers that the bad luck transferred from herself will be transferred to others. Because she escaped from the unhappiness of life again and again, constantly causing injuries to the people around her; she also found the diminishing digital marks on her arms, traveling through time and space, which was originally limited in the number of times.
Decreasing numbers
When chiaki returns to God, chiaki has unexpectedly become a boyfriend and girlfriend with her female classmate Yuri, who was originally good with Makoto. Makoto fell into a sullen mood again.
But maybe it just goes on, and there will be no waves in the peaceful life.
Confused, Makoto decides to do something good, so she enthusiastically and actively uses her abilities to match the relationship between the introverted student and Kosuke. Although the good intentions have done a lot of bad things, but when there is one last chance to travel through time and space, the two people finally get together smoothly.
On this day, Chiaki calls and unexpectedly begins to ask If Makoto is jumping time. In order to avoid the topic, the panicked Makoto used the ability to jump the time one last time.
A relieved Makoto thought that life could be calmed down, but Kosuke sent a text message to borrow Makoto's bicycle to send the injured student home, and suddenly woke up Makoto - that day was when she was going to have an accident, Kosuke borrowed the bicycle with broken brakes.
This time, the fate of smashing into the tram was transferred to Kosuke and Xuemei. Cause and effect are always intertwined.
Makoto rushed to the scene but failed to prevent the tragedy from happening
Makoto, who rushed to the scene desperately, failed to prevent the tragedy from happening, and after a heart-rending roar, time suddenly stopped flowing again.
Chiaki appeared in front of her eyes, and the truth came out. It turns out that Chiaki is from the future, and in his time, humans have developed the technology of jumping time; and the walnut that Makoto accidentally pressed in the laboratory that day is the prop that has this ability.
The reason why Chiaki traveled to Makoto's era was to find a painting that would be lost in the future. Long overdue, he craved the time with Kosuke and Makoto, and unconsciously stayed until the summer. In order to prevent Kosuke from accidentally dying, Chiaki used his last chance to jump time.
Chiaki, who has lost the ability to jump time
According to the rules of the future, Chiaki will disappear from the world from now on.
Kosuke is rescued, and what he learns is the news of Chiaki's sudden disappearance, and the only one who knows the truth is Makoto, who has lost her former vitality.
Late summer when you lose your companions
The true hindsight of hindsight
Grieving, Makoto once again talks to the witch aunt, but in fact, the painting that Chiaki has always wanted to see is the one that her aunt who works in the museum is committed to restoration.
Mysterious paintings that run through the story
Aunt Witch also met a boy she liked at Makoto's age, and when the two separated, Aunt Witch promised to wait for him all the time, so the white colt passed through the gap, and time passed so casually.
However, aunt witch encouraged Zhenqin and said, You must be different from me.
If someone is late for a date, running over to meet you is your character, right?
Until Makoto found out that the mark on her arm suddenly became 1 again.
It turns out that Chiaki, in order to save Kosuke's time of retracement, just makes Makoto return to the time when she still has the last jump time opportunity. And this opportunity is really the last.
The last time Makoto ran to the past with all her might
Finally deciding not to run away from everything, Makoto firmly completes the final jump, helping Chiaki save his last chance to return to the future, and telling him everything that happened to him—except for what he confessed to himself.
The summer of 17 years old ushered in the final farewell.
Makoto and Chiaki sat on the bank of the river, staring at the evening sunset in a daze.
The two made a pact to meet in the future
However, this time, Makoto could not wait for Chiaki's confession. In the end, the words that could not be spoken turned into improper concern in the mouth of Qian Zhao, whose face was full of red.
The Lost True Qin
Of course, Makoto coaxed Chiaki away.
The silhouette of youth
But in the end, Chiaki turned his head and gave Makoto a final promise.
I am waiting for you in the future
Zhenqin said, this is going, running
The summer of 17 years old, which belonged to Makoto, ended like this. The soundtrack of the film also becomes extremely gentle at this time.
In fact, even if you are exhausted, you can't catch up, and when you really catch up, I'm afraid you will already be old and full of vicissitudes. When I caught up with the man, everything had already changed. I also can't remember whether it was the girl who traveled through time and space, or whether the time and space traveled through the girl.
However, youth has an ageless face. That's why the stories of youth are always being told and always being listened to.
Let's all run, time waits for no one.