Today, I want to share with you the 2016 movie "Your Name." 》
Referral Index: ★★★★★
Suspense Index: ★★★★
Visual Index: ★★★
Plot Index: ★★★★
To be honest, I haven't seen too many works by director Makoto Shinkai, and the evaluation of him on the Internet seems to be polarized, mixed.
I like this movie more, mainly because of the story in it, and there is a sense of seeing Nolan in a love movie. The sci-fi elements in it can't be hard, and the suspense elements can't be strange, but they are just right with the story the director wants to tell.
Your Name. Although it is an anime, it uses a lot of real-life restorations, and it is said that many of the original paintings can be found in Japan, and even you can find the huge lake. If you've ever been to Japan, it's as if you've visited Your Name. The feeling of the filming location.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > plot review</h1>
Have you ever tried to use someone else's identity to break into someone else's life?
When he opened his eyes, everything in front of him was so strange that it was no longer the bustling streets of Tokyo that he was familiar with, but the quaint secluded countryside.
At this time, Taki is playing a girl of the same age as herself. The gender was replaced, so that Taki couldn't help but touch his chest a few more times. The real softness of the texture was transmitted from his fingers to Taki's brain, making him sigh that the dream was so realistic.
When the sister in the dream saw her sister who was intoxicated with masturbation, she couldn't help but show a disdainful expression, and this sister seemed to be different from usual.
At the same time, Taki, who is in the metropolis, also opens his eyes, he behaves strangely, sentences the two of them, forgets the names of his classmates, forgets the address of the part-time worker, but suddenly has a hand in the sewing and patching that girls are good at.
It turned out that what was in Taki's body at this time was not Taki himself, but a girl named Mitsuba.
It seems that due to the comet's proximity to Earth, the two people in different time and space have replaced each other's bodies. Every few days, they wake up from each other's bodies and experience each other's daily routines. At first, the two were busy and overwhelmed in each other's lives, but as the number of replacements increased, they slowly took control of the rhythm.
Mitsuba, using her gentle female perspective, helps Taki to successfully catch up with the beautiful Okuji seniors who work together.
Taki, using his bold personality and male thinking, helped Mitsuba establish a handsome image, and even girls began to confess to Mitsuba.
The two people who did not know each other slowly became familiar with each other in each other's lives. Although they blame each other for making their lives completely change, there seems to be a force in the darkness that is pulling the two closer and closer.
Until one day, Taki's pursuit of Okuji seniors found out that Taki's heart already had other people.
Later, the exchange of bodies stopped without warning, and Taki, who had settled in his own body, began to miss the body of the country girl, and began to miss the girl named Mitsuba. This feeling grew so strong that Taki had an idea to find the town where Mitsuba lived, Mori-cho.
With his vague memories, Taki sketches on paper the appearance of Mitsuba's hometown, the hills there, the lakes there, and the schools there all feel kind.
With a few clues, Taki and Okuji's predecessors and Yoshiyuki set out on a journey to find Mitsuba.
Coming to a remote township, it is much harder to find a target than Taki imagined. Taki began to wonder more and more if he had just had a dream that felt realistic.
Just when the three of them were running out of ways, they ran into a ramen shop owner who had a lot of feelings about Tetsumocho who saw Taki's painting. Taki was so excited about this that the journey was not in vain. However, the expression on the face of the ramen shop owner gradually dimmed. He knew the location of the town, but it had been uninhabited for three years, because three years earlier, a fragment of a comet had hit the town, leveling it to the ground and killing more than 500 of its inhabitants.
When Taki arrives at the local museum to inquire about the information, he finds that In a list of comet disaster deaths, Mitsuba's name is prominently listed.
It turned out that the girl who had exchanged her body with herself had died three years ago.
Could it all be that all this was really just a dream, Taki was a little reluctant, he thought about it all night, and decided to go to Temori Town alone the next day to find out.
He recalls that when he crossed into Mitsuba's body, he once crossed the mountain with his grandmother and sister Shiba to a cave where the shrine of Miyamizu Shrine was located. Here, they offer their own chewing wine.
With his vague memories, Taki followed the mountain path to the cave and drank chewing wine made by Mitsuba. The sweetness of the wine soaked Taki's entire body, and he felt a divine force that was taking him to a dimension he had never been before, where he saw Mitsuba's life, from the time she fell to the ground to the moment she grew up, until the moment the comet fragment fell on the village.
Taki realizes that the girl who swapped bodies with her has been Mitsuba three years ago. The arrival of the comet made the wonderful thing happen to the man and woman, and the fall of the comet brought such a wonderful displacement to an abrupt end.
Half dreaming and half waking up, Taki's consciousness gradually blurred and gradually became sober. When he sat up, stroked his chest, and felt the soft texture again, he couldn't help but burst into tears. Although Taki did not know why he was back on the eve of the comet's fall, he was too late to think about it so much. She pulled up Mitsuba's henchmen and planned a rescue plan. But where would the villagers who were still viewing the comet as a beautiful view believe the of the little farts, and no one could imagine that the beautiful comet would hit their heads in the distance.
Mitsuba's father is the mayor of the town, and only by convincing him can it be possible to rescue the villagers from water and fire. But now mitsuba's body is Taki, not the mayor's real daughter, and he can't convince the man in front of him. Taki realizes that only Mitsuba can convince his father, but the question is, how can he retrieve Mitsuba, and the exchange of spirits is beyond his control.
Taki thought that he had only crossed after drinking a drink in a nearby cave, so maybe there was a way to retrieve Mitsuba.
Pressed for time, Taki rode his bicycle with Mitsuba's body and rushed desperately in the direction of the cave, and the comet was getting closer and closer to the town without discussion.
As Taki approached the cave he heard the sound of Mitsuba.
At dusk, this is not a special moment of day, nor is it a special moment of night, and the two finally meet.
Takiya finally remembers where the ribbon tied to her hand for three years came from, the girl who took the liberty of handing the ribbon to herself in the train, it is no one else, it is Mitsuba, it turned out that the two had met each other three years ago, but at that time Taki did not know mitsuba's existence and could not recognize mitsuba.
Dusk is beautiful, but only for a moment. Just when the two want to write each other's names on their hands and remember each other's names forever. The two disappeared in front of each other's eyes at the same time, and the other's name became more and more blurred, as if it had been deleted in the mind.
Returning to her body, Mitsuba sees that the comet is about to split, and she has forgotten Taki's name, but she knows that it is Taki who is trying to save herself in a remote place. She said that she would not give up her last hope, even if the mountain road was bumpy, even if she fell to the ground, she could not stop her from standing in front of her father.
Finally, fragments of the comet arrived as scheduled, and the shock wave of the debris falling to the ground ruthlessly flattened the entire town.
But before that, Mitsuba persuaded his father to issue a warning of asylum in time, and the residents of the town were all saved.
However, Taki and Mitsuba could no longer remember each other's names, nor could they cross into each other's bodies. Step by step, back to your own life.
In the past five years, Taki and Mitsuba are no longer the high school students they once were, and they have long lost the thrilling memories of the comet's arrival. Taki didn't know why he was always concerned about the news of being hit by comet fragments in the town, and he couldn't even remember whether there were anyone he knew in that town.
Under the mysterious tug of the eye, Taki does not know what he is pursuing, whether it is a place, a thing, a person, or just a job.
On the corners of the street, by the windows of the tram, on the sidewalks where it was raining, Taki always felt that what he was pursuing passed by again and again.
I don't know how many times after searching, meeting and missing, Taki and Mitsuba once again stood on the same step, a pair of most familiar strangers, even in front of the eyes can not remember each other's name, but the moment they look back at each other, they still can't stop, tears.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > video parsing</h1>
Although I have not been to the prototype site of Theomori Town, I went to Kyoto and Tokyo. As depicted in the film about the lives of the heroes and heroines, the different cities represent two completely different styles.
In Kyoto, you can see a variety of shrines and shrines everywhere. Locals also regard worship at the shrine as an important part of their lives.
Torii gates are the norm at almost all shrines, and they are usually built in red, growing into a huge open shape, with their heads slightly upturned, and seem to be the birds' favorite abodes, just like their name. In Japanese culture, torii gates represent the entrance to the Shinigami domain, which is used to distinguish between the shinigami inhabited by the gods and the secular world inhabited by humans. In the movie, Mitsuba once stood in front of Torii and shouted out her wish to become a handsome man in Tokyo, so she successfully moved into Taki's body as she wished.
Miyasu Shrine, to which Mitsuba belongs, doesn't see the wonders of The Chihon torii Gate in Kyoto, but it's easy to think of the Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto Gion. The most conspicuous place in the center of the shrine is the same sacrificial platform as in the movie. The three and four leaves held the ceremony of feng na on the stage, but the young people in the audience only regarded it as a dance to help the festival, and the traditional culture that had been passed down for thousands of years was now difficult to preserve its original appearance.
The Miyasu Shrine in the movie has a history of more than 1,000 years, preserving the customs of autumn festivals, chewing sake, and knotting, and the connotation and origin of these customs are unverifiable because the relevant texts were burned down by the fire of Cocoon Goro 200 years ago, but the Miyamizu family still retains the form of three customs, which have been passed down from generation to generation.
Miyamizu Mitsuba's mother, Miyamizu Futaba, died at an early age as her daughter,and her father, a former folklorist, served as a door-to-door son-in-law, and due to the death of his wife, he gave up his position as a priest and engaged in politics, and later became the mayor of the town.
In order to continue the tradition of miyasu shrine, grandma Miyamizu Ichiba drove her son-in-law out of the house and raised her two granddaughters alone.
Successive generations of the Miyamizu family have the ability to exchange spirits. What happened to Mitsuba is as described in the movie, and Mitsuba's mother's experience can be corroborated by the expression of the mayor's father who asks Mitsuba who Taki is, and Mitsuba's grandmother tells Mitsuba about her personal experience through dictation, and she seems to have detected the spirits of other people in Mitsuba's body.
Legend has it that meteorites have visited Tsumori Town 1200 years ago, and the location of lake Mori and the shrine of Miyazui Shrine are traces of meteorite impacts.
It is very likely that the formation of Miyamizu Shrine has a great relationship with the meteorite fall 1200 years ago.
The knot is the most important link in the custom of Miyashuni Shrine, the external expression is a rope knot, the inner meaning is the production spirit, in Japanese, the production spirit and the knot are homophones, here is a pun.
The knot is the work of God, symbolizing the bond between the spirit and the body, the connection between people, and the flow of time.
The aggregation, shaping, twisting, winding, breaking, reduction, and connection in the production process point to the time vein and character entanglement with the same characteristics in the story. In the story, the headband of the three leaves, the silk belt on Taki's hand, and the sealing rope that wraps the chewing wine are all woven knots. When the knot was given by the miyamizu family, it was inextricably linked to the other side.
Chewing wine is a tribute made by the Miyazu family to the spirit-producing spirit body, and it is also one of the manifestations of knots, which is the connection between water, rice, and wine and the soul. Water and rice are chewed by the miyazu family and sealed and fermented, and the half of the body of the wine maker is stored, that is, the soul. The one who takes the wine and chews it takes on the soul of the winemaker.
Therefore, when Taki drank the mouth-chewing wine of Mitsuba, the spiritual body shifted immediately.
On the other side, Tokyo is lined with high-rise buildings and a dense population, with endless trains and shopping malls. The fast pace of the city is evident in the pace of people rushing to the road. People try not to disturb each other as much as possible, and it is difficult to get closer.
Taki is used to everything that amazes Mitsuba here, and has long been accustomed to the busy life of cafes and reading and working girls everywhere.
These, Mitsuba can still integrate and adapt, but what makes her helpless is the relationship between people here.
In Tsumori Town you can know everyone in the town, and the connection between people is like the entanglement of the knots.
In Tokyo, even if the crowds are endless, there is never a close connection between people like in remote towns. People greeted politely, but it was not difficult to see that it was just a constant repetition of routine.
Here, Taki eventually falls in love with Mitsuba, who is far away in the sky, but misses the Okuji predecessor who is close at hand, and now, this is a typical scumbag performance.
But watching the movie, you don't think it's anything abrupt. Because you know, the connection between Taki and Mitsuba must be different from anything he has ever seen in the world of flowers and flowers.
It would be admirable only to be envied, but how nice it would be if we could also experience the connection between time and space and the flesh like Taki and Mitsuba.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > parallel universe</h1>
Your Name. Although "" is a drama film with delicate feelings as the main line, it cannot be said to be a science fiction movie.
Its underlying scientific logic comes from the same principles as the movie The Night the Comet Came—coherence and decoherence, yes, quantum mechanics.
To give an Easter egg, the story of "The Night the Comet Came" takes place in 2013, the same time as the comet in the movie. What is even more coincidental is that outside the movie, in the real world, the terrifying meteorite impact on the earth did occur in 2013 - the 2.15 Russian meteorite fall. At about 12:30 p.m. on February 15, 2013, an astronomical fall occurred in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia. As the meteorite rubbed and burned as it traveled through the atmosphere, it exploded, producing a large number of debris that formed a "meteorite rain" that injured more than 1,200 people.
In addition to the obscure quantum mechanics that come with comets, Your Name. At the same time, several science fiction or fantasy concepts such as time travel, spiritual body exchange, and parallel universe are also integrated.
This kind of smorgasbord stitching is a precursor to extremely easy to overturn, but unexpectedly, Makoto Shinkai wrapped these elements all tightly with a sadistic love story of a hero and heroine, just right.
And with the linear relationship of knots, time, and comet trajectories, the worlds of science and magic are connected. One of the scenes that impressed me the most about the movie was in the Cave of the Divine Body, when Makoto Shinkai slipped and fell, using a long slow motion to fully show what he saw when Taki was suspended in the air. Fallen comets, brain nerves in transit, scattered knots, and even umbilical cords cut by the mother of the trefolia after giving birth.
These red lines, which are also "knots", fly in the air, twist and wind, sometimes return to the original and then reconnect, anime as the art of lines, beauty can be said to reach the extreme in this instant.
The sense of seeming control is overwhelming. Let the audience have the same feeling of sudden enlightenment as Taki after drinking and chewing wine at the shrine of Miyasu Shrine.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Your Name. Why is there a period in the title</h1>?
If you pay close attention to the title of the movie, you will find that there is an extra period at the end of your name.
One explanation is that there was once a live-action movie in Japan also called "Your Name", and there was no punctuation mark in the title of the other party, so in order to distinguish it from the other party, a period was added.
I don't think that's the case at all.
Today, when the film industry is so developed, the phenomenon of duplicate names in films has long been common. It's like bumping shirts isn't awkward, who's ugly is embarrassed. The quality of the film is still the most important sign of recognition. What's more, these two films, one live-action and one animated, are inherently different from each other. When introducing the title, there are not too many people who will not be able to read the final period together.
So what is the meaning of the existence of this period?
Instead of thinking about why there is punctuation, ask yourself, if it were you, what punctuation would you add?
Most of the film is spent in confusion and searching. Why not end with a question mark?
If the two recall each other's names at the end of the film, isn't the exclamation point more able to express the joy of the protagonist's heart?
Or is it not more intriguing that the film ends with an open-ended ending, with a three-point ellipsis?
Why is it such a calm and calm end?
We all know that a period represents the end of a paragraph.
However, it also represents the beginning of a new starting point.
At the last moment, the exchange of countless glances passed by, although the two recognized each other, they did not know each other, there may still be such uncertainty in their hearts, they may still not be able to call out each other's names, and maybe the girl who burst into tears is not called Mitsuba at all. But what is important has not been each other's name.
We are connected to each other and rely on more than just our names. It is the mother's umbilical cord when she first came to life, the parabola passed around on the court, the tight connection between the ten fingers of the lover, the long line of time that we are bound together, the headband that Mitsuba gave to Taki, the bond between us, the knot between us.
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