2011-05-27, 17:55 | Link #1182 | |
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Great Britain
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i want my blu ray Why delay the inevitable ? |
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2011-08-02, 09:24 | Link #1185 | |
Lost at Sea
Join Date: Mar 2010
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The key moment is of course Takaki's reflection narrated in a voice-over as they kiss: Spoiler:
Shinkai seems to be saying that life and time are too vast to be contained by any one instant, no matter how important or moving, and therefore that even moments of transcendent love are inevitably transitory. This is a cause for unbearable sadness. But at the same time, the moments have an immediacy of passion and beauty that are valuable for their own sake. Takaki puts away his "anxieties" and surrenders to the pure experience of the Akari's kiss. What is left afterwards, but a memory? one that is both beautiful and sad: beautiful, since it retains this moment of love, and sad, since the memory also records the moment's loss. The cherry blossoms and the snow become metaphors for our lives: we are always falling into death, and that is our experience of life--beauty and love, gained and lost, again and again. Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru is an outstanding expression of the Japanese aesthetic concept of mono no aware. |
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2011-08-27, 08:31 | Link #1186 |
On a mission
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After watching Place Promised I decided to watch this.
5 cm per second, or 18m per hour, seems to carry on many of the themes of its predecessor, namely distance, and moving on, basically waking up from these long streams of poignant memories. This was a rather depressing movie; with all the troubles taking a toll. Takaki seemed to really suffer with no direction in his life, unable to see someone that loves him in front, and even ended up quitting his job. It was unfortunate that everyone involved suffered such tunnel vision, and it seems that had Akari or Takaki had acted more strongly, this wouldn't have happened. But such is life and 20/20 hindsight. Despite having the same thoughts and feelings, they couldn't act on them, and so all our leads suffered. Sometimes it just passes by. But at least by the end, they could move on, and the future always has something to offer. One thing that really separates 5cm from other romances is that there's no real obsession over the "destined" one. Anime seems to have an obsession with having one couple as the one true, and pure one. In 5cm, the romantic feelings are very strong, but just because they weren't together or even if they end up with other people doesn't mean the feelings were not valid. And this made the characters' feelings very real. The visuals even managed to outdo Place Promised, which was already very good looking. In fact; it's some of the best I've seen for anime movies. But holy fuck, here, you're just completely stuck looking at all the beautiful scenery. It goes with the name very well too, 5cm per second is a very slow speed, and when time moves slowly, it causes a lot of frustration in our cast here. The rocket was also a really good allegory, as travel through the cold vacuum of space would also be painfully tedious. I guess I wasn't a big fan of the ending. The actual conclusion, whether they find a way back or not isn't too big of a deal, but I was still going like "wtf, this just ended?" A bit anticlimatic to say the least. But in any case, I'll rate this a 9/10, since it's rare that this medium portrays romance in such an honest and somewhat realistic manner. Easily top tier when it comes to anime romance.
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2012-02-15, 00:26 | Link #1188 |
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After putting this off for years (like all anime movies I sort of want to see but not really), I finally sat down and watched it.
I kind of have mixed feelings about them not ending up together in the end. It's nice that it strayed from the typical cliche ending, but they didn't have to rub it in my face by having the guy become a depressed run of the mill officer worker who apparently hates his life, while the girl is getting married to someone she clearly enjoys and is apparently very happy with her life. It left me feeling somber, which I wasn't expecting. It turned out to be pretty damn depressing It hurts most because I'm sure a lot of people (including myself) can relate in some way. I feel I'm slowly ending up the man Takaki became, it's kind of terrifying really... (not to say I'm depressed or anything, my life is okay for the moment. ) btw, the island they're on in the the second episode makes my heart hurt. I'd love to live somewhere like that when I'm older.
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2012-02-15, 12:15 | Link #1192 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Age: 34
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Yeah, the ending was kind of anticlimatics and it was a troll for romantic watchers, heck, it would have been NTR if the girl was keeping her relationship with the guy while enjoying her time with her new lover . |
2012-02-19, 00:44 | Link #1195 | |
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2012-04-03, 21:47 | Link #1197 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Canada
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I've been meaning to watch this forever, but always stalled because I knew what to expect in the end. It stung just as much as I expected it to, but even so, what a beautiful watch. One of the tags on AniDB is "High Degree of Perfection", and honestly, I couldn't agree more.
It was so artistic, and at the same time so very realistic. Until the music video part I was so immersed in its brilliance. Though it's not "the story of my life" per-se, the scenarios could be related to very easily. Also, the very way this movie approached the passage of time was flawless. Even though there were time skips, it felt as if you could have easily pictured the time that wasn't shown on screen all the same. Needless to say a flood of nostalgia and thoughts about my own past had immediately surfaced after the movie finished. This is probably the most positive I'll ever feel about a "sad" movie. Usually an ending I don't take a liking to (sad in some way, too many things left unresolved, etc.), or doesn't fit with the rest of the series will ruin the entire run for me. This however, is the exception. Though honestly, I probably couldn't watch it again. The feelings behind this unrequited love is really hard for this heart to handle. It tugs too damn hard.
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coming of age, drama, romance, shinkai |
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