Call your name. Some connections between this film and Shinkai Makoto's past works.

This is the third time that Makoto Shinkai has used Tokyo as the stage for the story after "Five Centimeters Per Second" and "The Garden of Words". The description of the street scene is as delicate and delicate as always, and the iconic use of light and shadow and the layering of the sea of ​​clouds are still not absent. . Many places in the film are closely related to Makoto Shinkai's previous works. For example, the general idea of ​​the encounter between rural girls and urban teenagers was first revealed in the special short story "Crossroad" jointly created by Makoto Shinkai and the Japanese educational institution Z Club this year. Clue; Taki and Mitsuha exchanged identities in a dream, and after discovering each other, they communicated through the messages left on their mobile phones - the setting of contact only through mobile phones was set in the early personal short story "Voice of the Stars". The scene where Mitsuha looks up at the comet is very similar to the scene composition of the protagonist looking at the artificial satellite launched into the sky in "Five Centimeters Per Second"; the hero searches for the missing heroine through the clues left in the dream It also seems familiar, yes, this is the plot in "The Other Side of the Cloud ~ The Promised Place"; Sanye's Gu Wen teacher is the heroine of "The Garden of Words" Yukino, and the seiyuu is also Hanazawa Coriander (there should be no Few people can hear it), as for why she is in Itomoru-cho, it is left to the audience's imagination.
From this, we seem to be able to glimpse the elements that Makoto Shinkai has been inexplicably passionate about from beginning to end: boys and girls, mobile phones (communication methods), time, space, stars and dreams, and how to connect these elements naturally is what he has always been. creative tendencies. So after accumulating and making progress, the latest work of the collection, "The Name of the King", was born.

The theme and key word of this work: connection (knot び). The interpretation of the word is most directly expressed in the conversation between the grandmother and the Mitsuba sisters: "The sewing of yarn, the connection between people, and the passage of time are all a 'connection'. "The water you drink, the food you eat, and the wine you drink, the relationship between the substances that make up the body and the soul is also a manifestation of 'connection'."

The ethereal and looming feelings of men and women in Makoto Shinkai's works always require something similar to a token to maintain, such as the text messages in "The Voice of the Stars", the shoes in "The Garden of Words"... in "The Name of the King" is the name. who am I? who are you? Names were born in social interactions early in human history, and their most essential role is to distinguish individuals, and to better connect us to each other by giving each person a unique symbolic meaning. Whenever time and space are broken and when they wake up from a dream, Taki and Mitsuha call each other's names over and over again, trying to fight against the memory that is on the verge of disappearing. .

Eight years later in Tokyo, they meet again in a sea of ​​people. The number 8 also has a special meaning. The actor A Sheng of "The Voice of the Stars" once said: "It takes eight years for the speed of light to take a distance, which is no different from the so-called forever". In that story, eight years was the time it took for a message to travel from Sirius to Earth. He was on this side of the earth waiting for a text message that was eight years late, and she was drifting away on the other side of the vast universe, never to be seen again. Eight years can be a moment or a long time. Fortunately, this time the hero and heroine passed by with a good ending, as if to make up for the shortcomings brought by the ending of "Five Centimeters Per Second".

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