In fact, your name broke such a big record at the Japanese box office and made countless teenagers cry in the theater. It is related to a major trauma in the hearts of the Japanese people - that is the 2011 earthquake in Japan that shook the world with a magnitude of 9.0. Don't laugh, don't rush to spray, the next topic is very heavy, take your time.
Let's first look at an interview video of director Shinkai Makoto, to prove that the following is not my far-fetched, but the director's real thoughts. He filmed your name just like we filmed the Wenchuan earthquake. In fact, he wanted to use movies to comfort the Chinese people and encourage them to face the future bravely.
We may not remember the earthquake that year, but in Japan, at least 15,894 people died, and there are thousands of missing people. For the Japanese, just like our Wenchuan earthquake, it is a permanent scar.
After the earthquake, the sluggish Japanese economy became even more turbulent. More importantly, Japan is not like China. It is just a big island country. It can be said that an earthquake not only destroyed countless families, but also almost broke the confidence of the whole country in the future. , and the Japanese are notoriously persistent, and until now, that game has cast an unforgettable shadow on many citizens.
This is a photo after the earthquake. Does it look like the town in the movie that was hit by a comet? We may not remember the great earthquake that year in
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, but in Japan, at least 15,894 people died, and there are thousands of missing people. So far, there are no bones. For the Japanese, just like our Wenchuan earthquake, it is a permanent scar.
After the earthquake, the sluggish Japanese economy became even more turbulent. More importantly, Japan is not like China. It is just a big island country. It can be said that an earthquake not only destroyed countless families, but also almost broke the confidence of the whole country in the future. , and the Japanese are notoriously persistent, and until now, that game has cast an unforgettable shadow on many citizens.
This is a photo after the earthquake. Does it look like the town in the movie that was hit by a comet?
"If I could..., maybe so many people wouldn't die." The lines of the protagonist in this movie, the catastrophic scene of the comet in the movie, the dark history of the town's total destruction, the unfolding of the gods who reversed time and space, in fact, All of them are alluding to the natural disasters that the Japanese experienced in those days, and directly attacking their inner fears.
Why does the male lead suddenly insist on saving the female lead? Because a living being died in a natural disaster, just like hundreds of millions of Japanese lost their compatriots back then, if you can reverse the time and space, do you want to save the people who died in the Wenchuan earthquake?
So at the end of the movie, the lovers stay together and the village is saved. We look ordinary, but we cry tens of thousands of Japanese people. Because in their eyes, this ending is like a redemption for them, a farewell to that natural disaster. The boys and girls have reunited, bringing a new tomorrow and opening their hearts, can you not cry?
In fact, the success of a movie is inseparable from the weather, the geographical location, and the people. Your name is not a flawless commercial blockbuster. It can achieve an unprecedented victory in Japan because Makoto Shinkai just hit the G-spot of the Japanese people, not entirely because "Little Japan is extraordinarily hypocritical". As foreigners, we don't understand these pasts, and we can't get their tears. It's normal. Why do we have to attack each other, thinking that those who watch crying are hypocritical?
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