Of course, there are also a pair of boys and girls who are in early love, secretly holding each other's hands in the corner where the teacher can't see.
These scenes, now and in the past, are staged on and off campus every day, but the protagonists in the picture have changed one after another.
How beautiful, how missed, just as Nalan Xingde said: At that time, only Tao was ordinary.
This "Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" also seems to let us in front of the screen follow the pace of time reversal, immerse ourselves in our youth, and be unable to extricate ourselves.
Traveling through time is probably the superpower that humans most desire to have. Who has no regrets in the past, who has not missed the fate, if we are given a chance to start over, no one can resist such temptation. But most time-traveling films have a strong tragic atmosphere. Whether it's the protagonist in "The Butterfly Effect" returning to the past time and time again but making reality worse and worse, or the desperate love that can't stay together in the same time and space in "The Time Traveler's Wife", it seems to tell people that even fantasy, The time travel is not so beautiful.
In fact, in this film, the time travel is just a sci-fi coat put on by the director. What he tells in his bones is time, or more accurately, youth.
Youth is something that everyone cares about when they have it, and spends it like an explosive rich man. Until one day, you suddenly realize that it no longer exists, and you can't regret it, but no matter what the price you pay, You can't let it come back to you, even for a moment. Just like the English line that appeared on the laboratory blackboard several times in the film: TIME WAITS NO ONE.
The time jump with limited number of times in the movie is like a perfect portrayal of youth. The protagonist keeps wasting every precious opportunity for some trivial things, feasting on pudding or teppanyaki, singing songs until his voice hoarse, memorizing the answers and easily getting 100 points in the class test . Everyone has done this or that kind of silly thing in their adolescence, and time, just so little by little, has changed from full and crystal pearls to the sand flowing from the fingers, until there is nothing left.
This film is adapted from a short science fiction novel created by Tsutsui Yasutaka in 1965, but aside from retaining the gimmick of space-time jumping and the relationship between the three male and female protagonists, even the original names such as Kazuko, Goro, and Kazuo are full of Showa atmosphere. , has also been changed to more fashionable titles such as Makoto, Gongsuke and Qianzhao. The whole plot is reconstructed through a facelift, and the simple short story in the original book is drawn into a pure love song of adolescence.
The combination of two men and one woman did not fall into the stereotype of a love triangle. Obviously, the heroine Konno Makoto is not a well-behaved girl with delicate feelings. She plays baseball with boys and slaps her buddies regardless of gender, all of which clearly show her essence of a female man. She was even a little overwhelmed at first when the scenes of love after another were being staged around her. Best friend Hayakawa fell in love with Chiaki Mamiya, one of her best friends, but the latter suddenly confessed to herself rashly. Another good friend Tsuda Kosuke is secretly in love with his junior, but he is misunderstood by the junior who is ambiguous between him and Kosuke. Although Zhenqin is carefree, she is a kind girl. She wants everyone to be happy, so she keeps going back to the past. But even if you can change everything, someone will always get hurt. Bringing Hayakawa and Chiaki together makes Makoto feel lost. As a school girl and a matchmaker for Gongsuke, it almost made the two of them fall into the threat of death.
The sudden reversal of the plot gave a reasonable explanation to all the magical phenomena, and finally made it impossible for two people from different time and space to continue. In Zhenqin's last time-travel, all the clips of acquaintance and acquaintance with Qian Zhao flashed back quickly with the music, and the old-fashioned techniques were still full of tears. With an extra opportunity to travel, everything seemed to have returned to its original point, except that the boy who liked her and was liked by her had disappeared. In this film, when the male protagonist returns to the future, he does not erase everyone's memory as described in the original book. This kind of change in setting can more resonate with the viewer's emotions. Just like that middle school classmate who has lost news, that period of secret love that no one can talk to anymore, everyone can find matching fragments from memory, occasionally reuniting with old friends, chatting or mentioning him or her. , I mourn softly for no reason in my heart, but it is so light that there is nothing.
It turned out that what the director wanted to say to us was very simple. We don't have a time machine. The past love and time will never come back. Only by grasping every feeling can we grasp the happiness of the future. At least, you won't regret your cowardice for the rest of your life.
Those who have not paid attention to the original story will definitely be surprised by the character setting of Kazuko Hoshiyama, the "witch aunt" who unreservedly believes that Makoto really travels through time and space. In fact, this mysterious oil painting restorer in the art museum is the protagonist of the original novel who has the ability to travel through time and space. In other words, what Makoto is experiencing now, Aunt Hezi experienced many years ago. In this way, the film cleverly turned this adapted story into a sequel to the original story, and Kazuko, who was a past person, could also become the role of Makoto's life mentor without any surprise. In the original work, the male protagonist's motivation to travel back to modern times changed from collecting lavender that has disappeared to witnessing the annihilation of oil paintings in wars and barren times, so that the film's metaphor for the future world has changed from the category of environmental protection to the vulnerability of human beings. The worry of peace is contrary to the trend that the film industry has gradually stepped out of the Cold War mentality in recent years. It is probably due to the deep sense of crisis of the Japanese nation.
Compared with directors such as Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, Mamoru Hosoda's works have a considerable gap in the beauty of the character setting and the exquisiteness of the background setting. This is in his later works. Improved, but still not as high as the first two. Although it is slightly lacking in visual effects, the meticulous handling of the girl's mind and the strong youthful atmosphere under the banner of science fiction make this film the most successful film to change the original novel, and it also makes the movie version of Hosoda Moruyu The animation director has become a new master animation leader in Japan. Today, after Jin Min passed away and Miyazaki retired, his future development is even more exciting.
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