The first time I saw this movie was about six years ago. At that time, I was 21 years old, which is the beautiful age of youth. At that time, I was still madly obsessed with this kind of anime movies that healed youthful love, because at that time I always felt that Movies like this can heal all the bad things in my life and give me a fleeting moment of beautiful fantasy.
But as the age gets bigger and bigger, the more I can't watch healing youth love movies, because I will always be a little timid in my heart, because my heart has lost the throbbing that can witness the beauty. Or after watching a healing movie, you will be even more sad, and will be extremely envious and "pity" yourself, failing to leave a good memory in the beautiful youth.
So, sometimes, I really resist watching this kind of work. But Makoto Shinkai is really my favorite anime director. From "Voice of the Stars" to "5 Centimeters Per Second" to "Your Name", I have followed Makoto Shinkai's works all the way, even if I look at them, I will be envious , there will be regrets, but the eternal theme of "missing, loneliness and love" in these works is also the reason why I like them so much.
I like "The Garden of Words" even more. I have watched it repeatedly 5 times. I always feel that when I regret, I am also saddened by the regrets of the past, just like Makoto Shinkai recalled in the interview that he was creating The original intention of "The Pavilion of Words": "This film expresses the 'the past of love, the story of loneliness and sorrow', and describes the feeling of 'who is lonely and hoped for before love comes'."
What does it mean to "seek someone alone before love comes"? I think it's probably just like the first love of the youthful youth in the film. It is not a passionate love, not a humble unrequited love, nor the depression of a secret love, but a unique, romantic and cherishing feeling unique to adolescence.
But the word "first love" is the word I hate the most in my heart. Life will not be healed as perfectly as a movie, and the feelings lost in the word "first love" seem to have no meaning to be commemorated. Once I saw the word "first love", I was very depressed.
And this repressed and heartbreaking feeling has always run through Xin Haicheng's works, so many of his films have tragic endings, but "The Garden of Words" is not, it can be said to be rare for Xin Haicheng One of the dramatic works that achieved a breakthrough in tragedy.
This breakthrough lies in the fact that the hero and heroine in the story did not blindly suppress their emotions, but learned to confess honestly, which is how the classic "But I hope the wind and rain will come, I can keep you here" and "Even if there is no wind and rain, I will Stay here too" is a wonderful line.
I have always liked these two sentences. I use them as my signature on the whole network. No matter where I am, I can always see this sentence under my signature, because I always feel that even in anime works, the protagonist They are all burdened by the world like us ordinary people, but they can finally meet and get rid of the world's vision together. As the heroine said to the hero: "Every morning I get dressed and prepare to go to school. But I'm always overwhelmed by fear. There, you gave me the strength to move forward."
Fearless of the constraints of others, "Thank you for being my driving force".
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