The quest

Scottie 2022-03-24 09:01:35

What moves me most in the movie is when they try their best to remember but in the mean time are inevitably losing the memory ...
That happens to me lots of times when I wake up from a good dream, and it also happens to my life as a whole: from childhood to teenage, from maturity to aging...
All our lives we are searching for something, something perfect, something beautiful, something that touches the innermost of our being, something that makes us feel integral, complete, deep...
Yet most of us never find it, or at best only grasp a glimpse of it; most of us don't even know what the search is after; and even worse, most of us gradually forget about the quest at all during the slowly killing process of mundane living. It faded, it diminished, it drifted out of the reach, darkened, disappeared. Even if we look back, we regard it as something juvenile, naïve , outmoded, laughable.
But what is really laughable and futile is our practical, sensible, adult life, which is ugly, narrow, broken, and goddamn boring.
And only the quest counts, even if we never find, even if we are not sure what the quest is after, don't give up searching.
Whenever the searching ceases, whenever the child/teenager is killed in you, you are dead, regardless you are still breathing or not.

The movie could be better if they didn't find each other. But I'm glad they did.
Good thing only happens in dreams and movies, and that's why we go to cinema.

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Your Name. quotes

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: [Taki finds himself in Mitsuha's body yet again. His/her hands move toward her breasts, but pauses] I shouldn't for her sake.

    Yotsuha Miyamizu: [comes down the hall, opens the door, notices her sister massaging her breasts] You sure do like your own boobies.

    [shouting]

    Yotsuha Miyamizu: TIME TO GO! GET READY!

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: [while they are exchanging messages] Guys will stare, so watch the skirt! These are basics for a girl!

    Taki Tachibana: Yeah... Whatever... Will you stop blowing my money on sweets?

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: It's going in your body! Besides, your job is such a pain... Lemme' celebrate!

    Taki Tachibana: Celebrate what? You got the easy crap! Braiding cords is impossible! All you gotta do is wait tables!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: But you work waay too many shifts...

    Taki Tachibana: Because you keep wasting my money!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Went for coffee with Ms. Okudera on the way home! You two have a good thing goin'!

    Taki Tachibana: Mitsuha... Quit messing with my love life!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Look who's talking! I was on the way to school with Tessie and Saya the other day... And you know what happened? A girl came up and confessed to me!

    Taki Tachibana: It's not my fault... I can't help it! Besides, you're more popular when I'm you.

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Ooh, look at you, Mr. Ladies Man! If you're so popular, why am I the one chatting up girls for you?

    Taki Tachibana: I never asked for your help! And if you're so confident in your matchmaking skills, get yourself a boyfriend, why don'tcha!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: [while writing a word on her face] I told you...

    Taki Tachibana: [while writing a word on his face] I told you.

    Taki TachibanaMitsuha Miyamizu: I'm single because I wanna be!