A short story about distance - "5 centimeters per second"

Summer 2022-04-20 09:01:59

——Hey, I heard that the speed is 5 centimeters per second...
——Huh? What?
——The speed at which the cherry blossoms are falling, 5 centimeters per second.

If the most beautiful song I heard this year is Sodagreen's "Little Love Song", the most fun game is Falcom's "The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", the most beautiful song A good-looking cartoon is Takeshi Obata's "Death Note", so the most impressive movie this year is Makoto Shinkai's "5 Centimeters Per Second".

When I first saw the poster of "5 Centimeters Per Second", I couldn't help but be attracted by the beautiful style of painting, so I immediately downloaded and watched it from the Internet (I really want to buy a set of genuine pictures with a set of pictures...). In fact, after the first pass, I was at a loss because I didn't even understand the plot! Especially in the third episode, the author made full use of the montage technique to dazzle the eyes under the high-speed switching CG animation, so that he had to press the pause button after the event to find the plot clues and
string together a complete story.

Even so, it didn't affect my mood after watching the whole movie - it's still so sad, and depressing.

The story is composed of three parts: "Sakura Copy", which describes the reunion of Takaki and Akari, "The Astronaut", which depicts Takaki from the perspective of others, and the titled short story "5 Centimeters Per Second", which expresses the mental hesitation of the two (the subtitle of the movie). For "a chain of short stories about their distance" means: a series of short stories about the distance between them. This is the third time for Xin Haicheng to discuss the issue of "distance"). (Excerpted from the Internet)



(1) When Sakura Copy

was still elementary school students Guishu and Akari were chasing under the cherry tree for the first time, the two made a life-long agreement: "Kun Guishu, it would be great if we could watch the cherry blossoms together next year. After graduating from

elementary school, Takaki moved, and this was the first time he and Akari were so far apart—from one city to another—“It’s no longer that you can meet on the tram when something happens suddenly. The distance between the

two is maintained by handwritten letters.

The appointed time was approaching, and with the letter that took two weeks to write, Mr. Guishu set off.

Unfortunately, on the afternoon of the high-speed train departure, it snowed heavily.

Due to the bad snowy weather, the arrival time of the train was continuously delayed, and passengers were forced to change stations.

The agreed time is 19:00, however, the train has been trapped in the wind and snow for nearly two hours.

On the way, the letter with infinite longing was unexpectedly blown away by the strong wind...

"The distance between the station and the station is unimaginably far." Takaki reclined helplessly on the seat.

At 23:15, the train arrived at the station.

In the waiting room, Mingli was alone, sitting quietly on a bench and fell asleep.

"Mingli", Guishu gently woke up Mingli.

In the hazy eyes of Mingli, he tightly grabbed Guishu's coat, and his thoughts turned into two lines of tears...

On that night when snowflakes were flying in the sky, the two came to the agreed cherry blossom tree.

"Hey, doesn't it feel like snow?" Akari held Takaki's hand, looked at the withered cherry tree, and remembered the moment when he caught the cherry blossom with his hand a year ago.

That night, the hearts of Guishu and Mingli came together in the closest way.

Both were only 13 years old that year.



(2) Astronauts

, Kagoshima, 1999.

Every night after school, Sumida hid in a corner of the parking lot, watching the time on his watch and paying attention to the arrival of Takaki -

just to be able to go home with his secret lover.

——I heard that it is transported at a speed of 5,000 kilometers per hour . It takes several years
to enter the depths of the solar system . On the way home, the two encountered a rocket on its way to the launch base. "When did you start writing such unsent emails?" After editing the text message, he chose to cancel the saved precious tree, closed his phone, and looked up at the vast starry sky above his head for a long time.






Chengtian, who stood on the top of the waves again, decided to confess to Guishu in that October when the summer atmosphere remained.

That afternoon, in the small supermarket that they must visit every day, they always like to patiently choose different flavors of Chengtian, and without hesitation, they took a box of coffee with the same flavor as your tree.

After leaving the store, Cheng Tian suddenly grabbed the tail of Guishu's clothes, his face flushed red, but he still didn't have enough courage to express himself.

On the seat, there were two empty boxes of coffee, one large and one small.

Chengtian and Takaki, who were walking home together, were always separated by one person on the left and one on the right.

Chengtian burst into tears, and his steps slowed down, but after Takaki took a few steps, he realized that Chengtian was slow, so he turned around.

"Please, don't be so gentle to me again." Cheng Tian sobbed.

Just then, not far away, the rocket launched.

Cheng Tian and Takaki witnessed the spectacle of the rocket soaring into the sky and flying into the universe.

At that moment, Sumida realized that he was like the rocket, "desperately, blindly pursuing the sky, looking for something that cannot be perceived in the distance", and also understood - Tono has always been watching from a long distance. she.

"Even so..."
"I...I love Tono-kun...whether tomorrow or the day after tomorrow...or forever..."
"It's still hopeless..." (3) Before getting married at


5 centimeters per second

Mingli found the letter that was not handed to Guishu in a small box.

That night, she had a dream about her and your tree's past under the cherry tree.

The next day, Akari said goodbye to her parents, took the high-speed train to Tokyo, and started living with her fiancé.

It was December 24th, Christmas.

On the same night, Mizuno, your girlfriend who had been in love with him for 3 years, called him, but he didn't answer. Mizuno spent a lonely Christmas Eve alone.

"I've always liked you"

Mizuno, his girlfriend of 3 years, wrote in the email

"We must have sent each other more than 1,000 emails"
"But our hearts are not even 1 centimeter close."

Soon, the exhausted Takaki resigned. Got a job and started falling for a bar.

One night after that, Guishu was visiting a bookstore and accidentally turned to a magazine, which reported that a domestic satellite had penetrated into the outer solar system. At the moment of "long journey of ELISH, from 1999 to 2008", Guishu

was filled with emotion.

In the dream, Guishu returned to the night when he was 13 years old, back to the cherry tree, back to Mingli's side.

Guishu regained the confidence to move forward and started working hard again.

Gonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggongggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggong The train is going away, and your tree Mingli is coming soon.

One morning, a few cherry blossoms flew into your precious tree's room.

At the same time, Akari was watering the flowers on the balcony, and the cherry blossoms were flying all over the sky.

Guishu and Akari decide to go out for a walk.

The two came to the train intersection in their memory, which is the place where the two agreed to see the cherry blossoms when they were children.

Guishu and Mingli walked towards each other and passed by.

Suddenly, Takaki realized that that person was Akari.

When he turned around, the moment he wanted to confirm -

a tram passed by quickly,

fate was so tricky,

another tram passed in the opposite direction,

waited until the two trams left

your tree and looked at the other side of the empty space for a long time, the

two of them were silent for a long time. In the middle of the year, the promise of childhood was fulfilled.

At the train intersection with cherry blossoms flying in the sky, but not seeing each other

, the moment Takaki turned and left, a

long-awaited smile appeared on his face.

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little sad, and a little depressed.

I am moved by the two of them overcoming difficulties and obstacles, embracing each other under the cherry tree on a snowy day, and also saddened by your tree from handwritten letters to emails to the emails that editors do not send in the future. The two came together from a long distance, but eventually separated because of the long distance.

I am moved by the fact that Sumida hides in a corner of the parking lot every day, only to go home with Takaki, and I am also saddened by the painful curling up on the bed, imagining Takaki watching her from a distance. The moment the rocket took off, Mingli clearly understood that he was blindly chasing the precious tree like a rocket, but could not find the direction. Maybe there will be no results, maybe it's just a comfort word designed for himself, even so, Mingli "still likes it hopelessly" to Guishu. Between the two, there is a distance of one person, that person is Akari, Takaki, and Chengtian himself.

On the Christmas Eve that Akari and her fiancé dated, Mizuno spent Christmas alone. "We must have exchanged emails more than 1,000 times, but our hearts have not even come close to a centimeter." The distance between Mizuno and Guishu was not just the few centimeters of space on the bed.

Takaki and Akari make a lifetime promise at the train intersection where cherry blossoms are dancing in the sky. One day after they become adults, fate guides them to meet but they don't see each other. In the dark, the two fulfilled their childhood promise. Guishu left with a smile, because he knew that the childhood memories will always be treasured in his heart. Sakura witnessed the distance between him and Mingli, the distance they wanted to be together but eventually separated.

When they were young, Guishu and Mingli liked to play and play on the way from school. One day, the two met a cat on the road. ——Look, Takaki

, it’s the cat, Chobi ——This
guy is usually here, but today he seems to be alone ——Where is Mimi, is he lonely?

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Extended Reading
  • Rylan 2022-03-24 09:02:26

    Good waste wood, waste oil, waste god

  • Kailyn 2021-12-24 08:01:57

    Lots of wallpapers...

5 Centimeters per Second quotes

  • [first lines]

    Akari Shinohara: Hey... They say it's five centimeters per second.

    Takaki Toono: What do you mean?

    Akari Shinohara: The speed at which the sakura blossom petals fall... Five centimeters per second.

  • Takaki Toono: It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.