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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Extended Reading
  • Skyla 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    After watching this movie late at night, I deeply feel that I have become an old woman now

  • Solon 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    The visual effects are as high as ever, and the details of light and shadow are pleasing to the eye. The narrative itself is still a small pattern of Makoto Shinkai style. The building is slightly expanded on the basis of a good idea, and it pays attention to instant moving. However, the large structure is rough and the characters are basically flat, which cannot be deeply moving.

Your Name. quotes

  • Taki Tachibana: [In his bedroom] something's there... aah!

  • Taki Tachibana: Nah... I have to use the bathroom.