Hello, fifth grade me!

Lucie 2022-09-08 13:06:14

The shots are intertwined in childhood and reality. The plot is full and even, there is no unbearable flood of memories, and no real beasts that are vulnerable.

We came running from the fifth grade classroom like Taeko, impatiently running into the adult world we imagined, running and running, the little red suspender skirt was replaced by a long skirt, and a layer of velvet on the lips replaced the Wipe clean snot. Turning around, he found that the boy in 5th grade was staring at him. Asked in the warm yellow time tunnel, "hi, how are you?" Yeah, how am I? How have I been all these years? How should I answer this young child resuscitated in his heart?

Going to the countryside, picking safflower, meeting old friends... is a drama set by Hayao Miyazaki. Taeko escapes from the city life in an attempt to find strength in the farm life that he has longed for, or an unknown exit from life. Different from other passengers, she dresses lightly and wears agricultural clothes, and packs the white-collar life in the high-rise subway out of her suitcase. And he also brought the treasure in his heart, that is, a Taeko in the fifth grade of elementary school.

After some experience, Taeko understood the power of time passing. It's as if she couldn't understand the inner world of a precocious girl when she was a child, and now she is still helpless about her childhood distress. And the talk and conversation in the car on the rainy night is a bouquet of fragrance that shines into the memory of reality. The childhood shadow that lingered in the heart was unexpectedly released after many years. This bizarre journey is a happy ending.

I have always felt that Hayao Miyazaki's cartoons are full of hidden wisdom. Every time I watch his movies, it seems like I have gone on a journey, and the starting point and destination are somewhere in my heart. How far you can go is entirely up to the individual.

In what proportion should memory and reality be distributed? This is more difficult to answer than a fractional division problem that bothered me in fifth grade. And we are no longer a child. We know how to fight back against reality and deal with current problems.

Well, hello, fifth grade me! I'm having a good time now!

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Only Yesterday quotes

  • Hirota: Rainy days, cloudy days, sunny days... which do you like?

    Taeko: ...cloudy days.

    Hirota: Oh, then we're alike.

  • Taeko: The king of fruit is... the king of fruit is...

    [the scene flashes from 1966 to 1989]

    Taeko: ...the banana!