I don't even remember how long it has been since I watched Japanese animations. The last time I watched it seriously was probably "Soul of Chess", and the animation movie is even older. It turned out to be "Goodbye Firefly" by Isao Takahata. This time I watched Makoto Shinkai's work because I happened to see the animation "Voice of the Stars" mentioned in the article written by Mr. Liang Wendao.
A pair of lovers separated by the earth and the universe, the only way of contact is text messages. It has long been said in physics that the propagation speed of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum is equal to the speed of light, which means that the text messages sent between them will take eight years to be received.
If the only connection between you was waiting, would you spend eight years waiting for a text message you didn't even know was sent?
In eight years, even the war of resistance was over. How strong can feelings be?
I don't even know if the girl died at the end, I just remember the belated text message:
"15-year-old Mikako says hello to 24-year-old A Sheng, I want to tell you that I still like you very, very much until now."
I can't help but think of the movie "Somewhere In Time" I just watched. There is a person waiting for you somewhere in time, but you don't realize how happy and sad it will be.
The girl Mikako murmured on another distant planet that the environment here is very similar to the earth, but it is different from the earth, because there is no store we like here, and there is no road we have traveled.
No wonder Lin Xi wrote such lyrics. In fact, without you, the earth will fly when standing collapse.
Fortunately, there is another kind of thing that can transcend the barriers of time and space. The name of this kind of thing is miss.
2007-03-10
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