Recently, one of Hosoda's representative works, "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time", released a 4DX re-release trailer, in order to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the film's release and the 10th anniversary of Hosoda's animation company, it will be re-released in many Theaters in Japan in April 2021!
Looking at some of the age-old pictures in the trailer, those familiar feelings come and go, and people can't help but recall their own naïve selves! This animated film, which was released in 2006, uses different ways and themes to bring us a story about youth, a love story full of regrets and growth!
Many people in the Japanese industry describe Director Hosoda Mori as the successor of Miyazaki Hayao, although this excellent director has been rejected by Studio Ghibli many times, but he still impressed the Japanese audience with his delicate works and the hidden philosophy of life behind the works, and now Director Hosoda Mori has also occupied a place in the Japanese animation industry!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the traversal animation that is least like a traversal animation</h1>
"The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" as a very early work of director Hosoda Mori, although with the two words of crossing, but it is completely different from the current era of cross-genre animation, if you want to describe, then it is the most unlikely to be a cross-over animation in this era!
After all, in this era, if we mention the two words of crossing, most of the time we think of the elements of the other world, the dragon auror, the sword and the magic, while "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" has no magic, no monsters, and no cool routines, more of a kind of daily youth campus life, but under the bland narrative, a somewhat sad story about growth and choice emerges!
In fact, "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" only turned crossing into a form of expression, although the core theme is through time and space, but in fact, through the theme of crossing to improve their narrative, the crossing into a daily regret medicine and a means of escape, but youth is only once!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > escape is simply adding pain to the future</h1>
The story begins with a high school girl, Makoto, who has gained the ability to jump in time, who inadvertently obtains props from the future and has the power to travel through time and space, and the way this power is opened is to jump!
So running and jumping have become the main symbols of the early stage of the story, we watched Zhenqin, a young girl full of vitality, travel through time and space in a series of running leaps, just for some trivial things, preemptively eating the pudding stolen by her sister, infinitely prolonging the singing time in KTV, after all, as long as you cross back you can sing for more hours!
The story does not make the theme of crossing very grand, but focuses on the details around the campus and youth, the story is more about everything that Zhenqin has in daily life, when faced with the fork in life and youth, Zhenqin, who does not want to change, begins to choose to use crossing to escape!
Most of the traversal themes want to go back to the past to change something, or go to the other world to use information differences to get something, but the heroine of "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time" is completely the opposite, after some enjoyment, she chooses to use traversal to make everything not change!
Because her friend Kosuke was suddenly confessed, and there was a chain reaction on campus, Chiaki suddenly understood her emotions and confessed to Makoto, so Makoto began to worry that her friendship with Chiaki and Kosuke would break down, so she began to use the crossing to escape! She hopes that the future will not change!
But things often backfire, Zhenqin's repeated crossing and escape, only postponing the occurrence of events, modifying the trajectory of events many times, and even letting things go to the brink of loss of control, Gongsuke had a car accident in a timeline! And Zhenqin found that the number of crossings was limited!
Perhaps "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" is also expounding a point of view to us from the side, the escape in life will only increase the pain of the future, Zhenqin thinks that as long as things do not happen through escape, everything will not change, but in fact, it will always come, and escape is obviously not a solution, it will only make people more and more troubled and painful in their lives!
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a girl who crosses and grows up in loss</h1>
Of course, although "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" is a somewhat sad story, it is not a complete tragedy, so just when Makoto is crying in despair, Chiaki appears through time and space to save Gongsuke, and it turns out that the ability that Makoto has gained is what Chiaki, a future person, has lost!
This ability is a kind of high-tech in the future, then naturally there is a limit to the number of times, and it is very unfortunate that Qianzhao used the last opportunity that belonged to him, so Qianzhao, a future person who stayed in the past era because he wanted to see a painting, will disappear!
Life always grows up in loss, maybe this is another point that the work wants to express, Chiaki came to the past because of a painting, because he liked a person and did not want to leave, and finally grew up to get his own love, but also lost some more precious things!
As a middle school student like Chiaki, Zhenqin's cognition of everything around her is obviously in a very young state, so she will naively want to keep her most precious things in an escape way, so when she really understands her feelings when she grows up and finally has the courage to stop escaping, she loses her lover Chiaki, which is the price she has to pay in her growth!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > youth is only once after all, and people always have to pay for their own indulgence</h1>
Growing up in escape, growing up in loss, this may be the growth trajectory of life, we will always encounter a lot of things that we are not willing to face, but the reality is always cruel, even if life looks so beautiful!
Perhaps director Hosoda Mori wants to tell us through the beautiful and youthful high school life that under the beautiful appearance, there is still a cruel side, and life may not only be in front of us, but there are also countless bitterness behind poetry and far away!
When you wantonly squander your youth, just like Makoto abuses the number of crossings just to eat a pudding, the future will always have to pay a corresponding price, maybe Makoto does not have the ability to overuse time jumping at the beginning, then in the end Chiaki can stay, but things are not if and there is no maybe!
Although the theme of this story is crossing, as if when you have the ability to cross, you have unlimited opportunities to come back, but the story ends with the story, and at that moment we understand that this is not a story about crossing over, but tells us that many times there is no chance to come back!
Just like Makoto understood her intentions at the end of the story, but it was too late, she could only watch Chiaki's disappearing back in the crowd and cry alone, leaving only Chiaki's words "I am waiting for you in the future!" ”。
Once in the end, people always have to pay for their own indulgence! But instead of regretting the past and constantly wanting to start over, it is better to grasp the present from now on, and do everything possible to make yourself not regret, after all, youth is really only once!
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