The reason for choosing this movie is simply because it is 75 minutes long, because if I had chosen one longer, then today's article would not have been updated.
The name "Seto Inland Sea" is like a person's name, or a place name, but it is actually the name of two people. The film begins with two middle school students sitting on the steps chatting, namely Seto Koyoshi and Uchimi. It made me think that this film would be different from the Japanese movies I had watched before, and the result was really different, but it was inconsistent with my expectations.
Seto and Inland Sea chatted on the steps, and a middle-aged man (motionless) stood on the railing not far away, and this lasted for half a day, so I guessed the context of the movie. The result is similar to what I suspected, almost all the scenes in the film are at the steps by the river, and the main actors are seto and Inland Sea. Then all the actors that appear in the movie are meaningful, and there are no actors who have nothing to do with the content.
The "content" I am referring to is the conversation between Seto and Inland Sea, which is actually the whole content of the movie. The whole film is where they talk about idle days, occasionally interjecting a little other picture (to show richness). Such a film may only be made in Japan, and perhaps Taiwan can also be made.
Later, I learned that the movie was adapted from the comic of the same name, so its simplicity and fun are better understood. Seto and Inland Sea are two people with completely different personalities, and then there is a Himura Phase I sandwiched between them, and the story can last forever. But the film is only 75 minutes long, divided into 6 segments, and now that I think about it, I really feel like I haven't seen enough.
Like the Japanese movies I've seen, after watching this movie, I have a feeling that "it doesn't seem to say anything, and it seems to say something." But this time the feeling of "what was said" was slightly weaker. I think there should be more content hidden in the original comic book, and the director only intercepted these few fragments, which is also "small and beautiful".
After the film showed the situation in which they met in episode 0, I began to look forward to the ending. I have to say that the ending is a bit disappointing, simply put, it is not good, and it is not as good as the other unexpected designs in the film.
The film ends with "one issue and one meeting", which is not the same as my understanding of Seto and Inland Sea (at least only the content presented in the film gives me the feeling), so it feels inappropriate to use here. But I highly agree with the attitude of "one issue and one meeting" (although I may not be able to say exactly what the meaning of one period and one meeting is), and I can feel the warmth of Seto and Inland Sea and Tsubaki in the same picture in the end.