Recently, Makoto Shinkai’s new work "The Children of the Weather" was released in Japan for the first time in three years. This film has the overhead world and fantasy elements that Makoto Shinkai has always longed for. This reminds me of Makoto Shinkai’s first director. The film "The other side of the cloud, the agreed place". This film is not as famous as the later "Five Centimeters Per Second" and "Your Name". It is an immature work with obvious flaws, but even so , It also has a unique charm that can move people's hearts.
The background of the story is set in an overhead world. After World War II, Japan was not occupied by the United States as it was in reality, but was divided into two. The Soviet Union occupied Hokkaido and the rest Some are occupied by the United States. Hiroshi, Takino, and Sayuri are students living in the Aomori area very close to Hokkaido. In the Aomori area, you can see a huge white tower towering into the clouds. The tower was built by the Soviet Union on the north-south boundary, causing the situation between the north and the south. tension. Both Hiroki and Takino have a crush on their classmate Sayuri. Hiroki and Takino were very curious about the white tower and the world opposite, and they were eager to fly into the sky one day to find out. So they worked in a factory called Ezo Factory to earn money, and designed an airplane named Verahira. In fact, Ezo Factory is the headquarters of an armed organization that promotes the unification of North and South. When Sayuri knew about Villahira, he also wanted to take it there to see the world on the other side, so the three reached an agreement to fly together to watch the tower.
But Sayuri had a physical problem, she would have some strange dreams for some reason, and became more and more sleepy, and eventually fell into a real deep sleep and was sent to the hospital for observation. . In fact, Sayuri’s grandfather was the designer of the giant tower. The giant tower was actually a prop for observing the parallel universe, but the side effect of the replacement of the parallel universe. Sayuri’s dream was exactly the scene of the parallel universe. Will activate the parallel universe replacement device. Hiroki and Takino didn't know it. Many years later, Takino continued to study the tower with a special session in physics. Hiroshi and Takino learned about Sayuri's state and the truth about the giant tower through a series of processes, and they both decided to save Sayuri. It happened that the Ezo Factory's resistance organization was planning to destroy the giant tower, so Hiroki and Takino were asked to drive Villahira to break through the blockade and blow up the giant tower during the war between the North and South forces.
Haoji took a plane and flew the sleeping Sayuri to the sky above the giant tower. Sayuri was also awake from his dream, with tears on his face watching that he had missed countless times in his dream Hao Ji, then the bomb was launched, the tower was destroyed, Hao Ji carried Sayuri to the distance.
The film has extremely obvious flaws. The overhead background and various sci-fi settings are very rich, but the pictures and text focus on poetry and beauty and lack information. It is difficult to coordinate the story, resulting in a scattered plot and the story. Boring, especially the first forty minutes, may make people look down on it. Xin Haicheng was already able to paint the pictures with shocking beauty at that time, but he still lacked control of the overall, especially the large overhead background, so he later released two small-format films, and the results were rave reviews.
Xin Haicheng is Xin Haicheng, even if it is a sci-fi background, he will create poetic scenes, gorgeous sunsets, broad clear skies, and middle school girls are green and cute Sayuri, accompanied by melodious but sad music, the fragmentary beauty of the film merges into the overall beauty. At the end of the film, Hiroshi and Sayori flew far away, and when Ai Kawashima's "Your Voice" sounded in her ears, the author's eyes were wet. This emotion is achieved through continuous accumulation and final rendering, and the dull accumulation of the previous plot makes the emotion so strong when it finally erupts. This may be a kind of imperfection created by the feeling.
This is not a simple love story dressed in science fiction, it is actually about the beauty of regret and loneliness of youth . The warm sunshine in the winter, the warm canned coffee, and Sayori's sweet voice when reading the text, all of which planted the seeds of love in Hoji's heart. When Sayuri fell into lonelinessIn her dream, the boundless loneliness, like a ruined world, pierced her heart deeply, and she began to miss Haoji and understood her feelings for Haoji. When Haoji met her miraculously while still in her dream, that moment was extremely shocking.
At the beginning of the movie, Hiroshi recalls those past events. After waking up, Sayuri lost his memory. They didn't get along for long, and they separated later. Isn't this just the youth as mentioned in the second five? Everyone has an object in his heart to admire in his youth, but reality is often not happy, but until many years later, no matter what his life is, he can’t forget that person, who has turned into a complex in his heart. .
"Your Name" is Xin Haicheng's most completed work so far. While inheriting the beautiful picture, it also tells the story very well. It can be said that this is A near-perfect work, "The Other Side of the Cloud, The Promised Place" is hard to compare. When watching "The Name of the King", I can really feel the emotion conveyed by the film, but this emotion is not as long as "Yunbi" and "Second Five". Probably the reason is that the lyrical prose-style romantic sadness like "Yun Bi" and "Second Five" is not strongly reflected in "The Name of the King". Therefore, even works with flaws like "Yun Bi" can bring a different touch to the audience.
The style of "The Child of the Weather" is very similar to that of "Your Name". The author hopes that this work can enhance the emotional performance while telling a good story, so that the audience will once again Experience the romantic sentiment of Xin Haicheng's prose style. Finally, I wish "Children of the Weather" a big box office and be introduced to the mainland as soon as possible!
