Three stars, one star for the screen producers, and two stars for Makoto Shinkai.
After watching it, I don't know why, but it reminded me of "The Promise". Is the picture beautiful? beautiful! Is the lineup strong? powerful! Second in the plot? Secondary school!
Of course, it is still much better than "The Promise". Disappointment may also be due to the high expectations that "Your Name" brings.
I don't want too much spoilers, but some grooves really have to be vomited.
Let's talk about the plot of the hero who saves the heroine at the end. When I was watching it, my first reaction was that this is not EVA: Is it the feeling of Shinji saving Rei? Desperate for everything, just for you, even destroying the world/Tokyo.
But Shinji's characterization and plot foreshadowing really don't know where is higher than Hodaka! Fan Gao has no boys, this is the character design of Ayanami.
Of course, some people say that this is the imperfect restlessness of a 16-year-old, a manifestation of adolescence.
But a plot without character shaping is really hard to bear such dramatic conflict. Why didn't I see that Fan Gao was such a middle schooler?
Similar themes, this year also introduced a "Penguin Highway", I think there are still similarities between the two films. But the background of "Penguin Highway" is a small town, the story is limited to a relatively small area, and the dramatic plot has a more appropriate boundary. The presence or absence of this town can be part of the fantasy in this fantasy-like animation. "Weathering With You" directly flooded Tokyo... Really, let's call Godzilla too.
Writing this, I suddenly felt that if this story took place in Itomoru town, rather than Tokyo, it might be more acceptable.
In the same way, if "Your Name" is a comet that smashes Tokyo...that's really a bit of a ghost.
I hope Xin Haicheng will not suffer from the same disease as Chen Kaige. I can feel his ambition to seek breakthroughs and surpass the previous work, but this work has not been realized. Pity.
Xin Haicheng can be placed in the position of Yamamoto Kan.
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