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Julia 2022-12-21 15:21:39

Its rhythm is so slow that even the characters seem to move carefully.
The watercolor background is very fresh, and sometimes the color is too stereotyped to make people feel dull.
Few animations draw the movement of a character's cheekbones so clearly, so even the characters look so realistic.

I sometimes wonder why the overseer chooses those things.
Wouldn't it be overturned when planning such a commonplace thing?
When we write screenplays, we are always asked to be imaginative, contradictory, bizarre.
In short, it should be different from our trivial life.
There are so many ordinary days, the story of adventure begins one day.

And then there is such a bland story, and you don't have to think about the director's tricks.
As long as you appease your patience, watch it patiently, and watch the days that flow like our own.
Until Taeko got on the Shinkansen at the end, I was still watching it by myself, and I wanted to turn it off several times in the middle.

But when the fifth grade Taeko and her classmates poured out and the ending song played, I started to be moved.
The previous episodes that even made me feel procrastinated, this time I have the idea of ​​​​watching them again.

The adventures of those ordinary people are all fake.
Most of everyone is like Taeko's 27 years of life.
It can be a bit dull to tell, and the things that stand out in memory are also experienced by others.
There is not so much intense love-hate, nothing is absolute.
Many memories are just important to me.

We yearn for those splendid lives, but we always stand in the ordinary place.
Finally someone has recorded our ordinary life.
Really let this ordinary, become the protagonist.




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In addition, there are many stars in the team of this film,
Suzuki, Kondo, Miyazaki ^_^

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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!