Rain, please don't stop

Erica 2022-04-19 09:02:36

I have always felt that the rain in the south and the snow in the north are as beautiful as the sky and the sea. The rain is dripping, the snow is brilliant, the sky is white, the sea is blue, and the beauty is unbearable. In Makoto Shinkai's works, rain, snow, sky and sea are always indispensable. I have always felt that this is a man with a delicate mind, just like all his works, as delicate as the flyers on the roadside, the smell of pedestrians' clothes, can be described. People with delicate minds have delicate feelings, so they will always be lonely and sad, longing for such a person, such a lonely person, to accompany him forever. Today is a rainy day, and the boundless dark clouds cover the sky, blocking the light, dim, endless dim, like the rumbling of a rolling car in the night. On a whim, I watched Makoto Shinkai's "The Garden of Words" again, the anime that made me fall in love with Makoto Shinkai. At the beginning of the story, it was a rainy day. The narration of the male protagonist told the reason why he liked rain, and extended the beginning of his encounter with the female protagonist. I like that sentence very much - when I was young, the sky was clearly within reach, so I liked rain, because rain brings the breath of the sky. When I was a child, I couldn't go back, those rainy days, those dripping rain, and the toys I played with in the room. The male protagonist has a habit, a habit of skipping classes - he must skip the morning class on rainy days and come to the park to paint. What a great excuse. Because of this habit, he met Yukino who was drinking in the pavilion, a strange person, a person who seemed familiar, a woman drinking with chocolate. He said to her, we seem to know each other, she said, no, she thought, it seems a little bit. Before leaving, she left him a short song - a faint thunderstorm, cloudy sky, but I hope that the wind and rain will come and you can stay here. Later, he knew the second half of the tanka, the faint thunderstorm, the cloudy sky, even if there is no rain, I will stay here. At that time, he was already infatuated with her, and she was also infatuated with him. Two lonely hearts gave each other warmth. It's just that, you were born before I was born, and I am old when I was born. She was 27 years old and was his teacher, 12 years older than him. He was still in his restless youth, and she was no longer at that dreaming age, although she always felt that she had not grown up and was no smarter than her 15-year-old. I have always liked Xin Haicheng very much for the people who wrote the love between sisters and brothers, and the other one is Jiangnan. I once wondered if they were madly infatuated with a senior when they were young, just like Lu Mingfei in "Dragon" was infatuated with Nuo Nuo, like Jiang Yang in "Shanghai Fortress" was infatuated with Lin Lan, like "The Boys Here" Richie Feng is infatuated with Kang Min, just like Ma Xiaojun in "Sunny Days" is infatuated with Milan. Those seniors, yes A light in their melancholy youth. They are young and beautiful, they have untold stories, their hearts are full of sadness, but they are happy and carefree. The imagination of a young man, a beautiful and boundless imagination as vast as the sea. They are like a book that can never be read, full of unknowable stories of teenagers. To sum it up in one sentence, it is the sentence of the male protagonist in the anime-in my opinion, she seems to represent the secrets of the whole world. The secret she represented was the secret of the world he had never grown up to know. He was obsessed with the secrets of that world, and he was also obsessed with her. He also has a secret, his secret is designing shoes, and he wants to be a designer, specializing in designing shoes. Perhaps this dream stemmed from his longing for a good family, the purple high heels they gave to his mom when his dad was still around. Those sparkling shoes left an indelible impression on his young mind. It represented the happiest time for their family. He is 15 years old, and he does housework in class and works part-time during winter and summer vacations. His father is missing, his mother has run away from home, his brother and new girlfriend have moved out, and he is the only one in the huge family, alone. She's 27, an office worker, and just broke up with a man who seems to be a lot older than her. It seems that the story is written like this, the male protagonist is obsessed with the female protagonist who is older than him, and the female protagonist has a man who is older than her. The setback of the breakup and the rumors in the school made her lose her courage, the courage to step out of the house to go to work, and the courage to go on. She needs warmth, the warmth of another lonely heart. She knew his secret, and when she knew the secret, he was embarrassed and quickly closed the drawing. Just like all teenagers are afraid of being read in their diaries and their dreams are afraid of being known. She also knew that he was her student, but she didn't tell him. He felt that all his secrets were known to her, and he knew nothing about her. So in the end, he said those angry words, those angry words that all young boys would say when they are in love with a girl and are left out by a girl. She will say that she doesn't like her, how annoying she is, how can she be so indifferent when she tries her best to get close to her. This made me wonder again, whether Xin Haicheng really fell in love with a senior when he was young, or that he still loves that senior until now. This reminds me of my friend A who is obsessed with senpai. During that time, A was fascinated by his senior. His world was full of that senior. Every day he thought of ways to chat with the senior, trying to build a spark that never dies in QQ. I often think of ways to give my sister a small gift, a ysl lipstick that he made by himself, or a ysl lipstick that he worked so hard to get 800 likes—he didn’t buy it Sorry, he just likes the process of making his mind. Just like the male protagonist in the anime makes a pair of shoes for the female protagonist, use your own mind to give her the best gift. A told me a lot of stories about him and that senior. I still remember two clearly. He wrote a note for her for more than 100 days. Every sentence in it was written for her. She thought it was a poem written by him. The second is that he followed her to Shanghai stupidly. After arriving in Shanghai, she went to Nanjing to find a boy, while he stayed in Shanghai and went back to school alone. Why do I remember it so clearly, because I think it's very similar to Lu Mingfei's liking for Nuonuo in "Dragon Race", giving it wholeheartedly. Although it didn't end well. Yes, A was not with that senior. This is a regrettable story. Just like in the anime, the male protagonist was not with the female protagonist. After a loving hug, they returned to their respective lives. I feel sorry for my friend because I support him with that senior. I don't regret the ending in the anime, because I hope that the good will stay there forever. In reality, there are not no happy endings, such as Macron, and there are many, many stories. But in the anime, I think that's already the best ending - they confess to each other, they hug each other, he's separated from her, and he's trying to grow, hoping to catch up to her world one day. In the lonely age, in the melancholy youth years, meeting such a person, that person warms you, just like a delicious lunch to warm the lonely stomach, that is beautiful. Even if the process is complicated, even if there is a misunderstanding before the hug, everything doesn't matter, because that hug is a warm enough hug for life. Jiang Nan wrote in Long Yi that everyone has a dead child hidden in their hearts. This is like what the heroine said, although I am 27 years old, I have always felt that I am not smarter than 15 years old. That dead child, the inner child who never grows up. Does Jiangnan really have an obsessed senior, and whether Xin Haicheng really has an obsessed senior, and whether they are still on the road of chasing that senior, I don't know. But I know that the male protagonist in the anime has been chasing the female protagonist, and it ends like this. I like the ending of Xin Haicheng very much, because who knows what will happen when the chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are used, let’s stay in the dead child forever, and let the ending stay in the good boyhood forever. In fact, I hope that the plot will stay forever in that rain, in the rain where they embraced each other. He said, I wish it rained, I could see her in the rain, she said, I wish it rained, I could meet him in the rain. So, rain, please don't stop.

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The Garden of Words quotes

  • Takao Akizuki: I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven't mastered the steps, I fall too. But I'm on my path, MY path, and one day that path, will take me to her.

  • Takao Akizuki: To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.