If the work "Five Centimeters Per Second" relies solely on its beautiful pictures, it is not enough to support the whole work, and at the same time, the interpretation of the work is relatively superficial. In his "On Japan", Dai Jitao attributed the characteristics of the Japanese nation and the reasons for Japan's development and progress to two points: First, the Japanese have a strong "faith". "The role of this belief is enough to make them irresistible no matter what they do, and they can endure all hardships and hardships." The second characteristic is that the Japanese are so beautiful.
The Japanese are so beautiful, especially the beauty of "matter sorrow". The Eastern Ying Islands has a beautiful and pleasant natural environment, but due to the relative lack of living resources and frequent natural disasters, the Japanese have formed a temperament of advocating "sorrow". In addition to the interpretation of sadness, grief, and misery, "Material Sorrow" also includes pity, sympathy, moving, and magnificent emotions. "Sorrowful beauty" is a kind of sensual beauty. It is not judged by reason or reason, but by the senses, that is, the beauty that can only be felt with the heart. Ruth Benedict (US) wrote in "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword": "In Japanese novels and plays, it is rare to see a 'happy reunion' ending. Even modern Japanese films are Take the suffering of the hero and heroine. In short, there is no need for a happy ending, but to evoke regret and sympathy for the self-sacrificing spirit of the hero and heroine.”
In Japan's earliest song collection "Manyoshu", most of the songs are emotionally slender and full of sadness. Japanese culture has absorbed the essence of Buddhism and Taoism in the early days, and after the Meiji period, it has absorbed Western culture, enriching and developing the culture of its own nation. Unlike classical European aesthetics, which seeks to be "timeless", whether it is a work of art, such as sculpture, painting materials or methods of preservation, etc. "Heaven" is also an eternal concept, and everything we do is to achieve eternity. The Japanese nation, which is deeply influenced by Buddhism, emphasizes the "sorrow of all things", that all things will decay and wither one day, thus entering the "reincarnation of all things".
All things will eventually grow old and wither. In this world, there is no coordinate that is the same as time. In most of the works that express the "sorrow of things", they tell the story of the birth and metabolism of all things in a light and calm way. , has long been deeply imprinted in the national spirit. It can also be said that "wu grief" has been sublimated from a general cognition to a philosophy of life. You and I are both hurried passers-by in life, and all the scenery around us will show his beauty for a moment, and then disappear. It is with this emotion that Makoto Shinkai created the work "Five Centimeters Per Second". Only by recognizing the passage of time and seeing his own "rise and fall" is like admiring the withered cherry blossoms, to appreciate that pure emotion ...
The use of three-stage interpretation in the work can be seen as a new attempt by Makoto Shinkai on the structure of the work. The three acts are composed of three short films, which allows him to retain the short film creation that he is good at, and greatly strengthen the story structure of the work, so that the phenomenon of "fault" does not appear, which makes the expression of emotions richer. Innocence is fleeting. Innocence is like the fleeting cherry blossoms, although they are destined to fall, why don't we appreciate the moment when the cherry blossoms fall, and grieve the fruitless innocence.
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