"Weathering With You": Makoto Shinkai, Familiar and Unfamiliar

Adelle 2022-03-21 09:03:00

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Hello everyone, I'm Meng Meng, who is talking about movies with you.

Makoto Shinkai's film Weathering With You was officially released on the mainland yesterday.

Since his last movie "Your Name. "It has been three years.

After waiting so long, I can't help but sigh.

Finally got a new wallpaper.

Just talk about the movie.

The story of the film can be divided into two parts.

The first part tells that Hodaka, a high school student, ran away from home, wandered in Tokyo, and accidentally met a girl named Haruna who could manipulate the weather. In the rainy Tokyo, they accepted the entrustment to make money by virtue of the name of "clean girl", and they lived strong in the cold city without their family to rely on.

The second part talks about the crisis of separation between Hodaka and Hina due to the fate of "Haruna" and the intervention of the police.

Why is a movie divided into two parts to introduce the plot?

Because I saw two Shinkai Makotos.

The first half of the movie is the familiar Shinkai Makoto.

He uses the exquisite picture quality, the usual urban vision, and the common elements such as stairs, rainbows, railways, and sky to construct a city full of texture and persuasion.

He also used fast editing, beautiful bgm, and prose-style narrative methods to skillfully build a different world, slowly showing the stories of the hero and heroine to the audience.

However, the second half of the movie is about a strange Shinkai Makoto.

In order to show the dramatic conflict, he set up a number of complex bridges.

For example, Hodaka, who was investigated by the police for being involved in a gun;

For example, Yang Cai disappeared because of the abnormal weather;

The story is interspersed with different stories of Hina's younger brother, Hodaka's boss, and colleagues.

It can be seen that Makoto Shinkai, who has been criticized in terms of script, is working hard to improve.

He even got out of his comfort zone, risky swapping prose for narrative in the second half.

However, he overestimated his ability.

Problems such as the disjointed rhythm before and after the movie, the excessive force in the characterization, and the fast and hasty ending of the movie have all become the direct reasons for the continuous low rating of this movie.

The use of a lot of CG in the movie also seems to announce the compromise of the wallpaper madman to commercialization.

It can only be said that this attempt was rather unsuccessful.

Although everyone said that the familiar Xin Haicheng is more hypocritical, but I still like him very much.

However, this strange Xin Haicheng, I really do not like it.

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  • Jayda 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    This is the story of Zhu Bajie and Xiaolongnu, who have been erased from history. The previous Xin Haicheng was laughing with tears, but this one is a laugh out of tears, a wonderful look and feel that is so absurd that it is so irritating that it can't find the source of the anger.

  • Nadia 2022-01-18 08:01:13

    The Son of the Weather is also known as the Son of Advertising. Even Haier in our country has forced a wave of advertisements. Haicheng’s movie must have elements, the sky, the four seasons, clouds, rainbows, railways, and panoramic views of the city. And can't let go of the obsession with the chest. The female number two is always better than the female number one, and the male protagonist is always the best. Is it possible that Tachibana Taki and Mitsuba forcibly enter the movie universe to create the Shinkai Makoto movie universe? Personally feel that your name is higher than the son of the weather.

Weathering with You quotes

  • Amano Hina: [from trailer] That summer day... up in the sky, we've dramatically changed the shape of the world.

  • Amano Hina: [from trailer] Hey, It'll clear up now.