"Makoto Shinkai? That wallpaper madman, love tragedy killer? So you like this type," said a passerby.
"Children chasing the stars? Isn't that the one that Brother Cheng is most criticized for?" said someone who knew a little about it.
Couldn't really convey to others what this movie meant to me. Now I am still a frivolous teenager, not to mention that when I saw it from my cousin in 2011, I was just a child who had no concept of movies, and after the scene, I was in a trance for three days. When I grew up, I studied film theory and had a hundred times the experience of watching movies. I was well versed in the various flaws of Cheng Ge’s works, and I commented on the famous names. Then I gave a presentation in the university class, saying that the child who chases the stars is me. Favorite movie of all time.
I, who had not grown up many years ago, and me many years later, are still the child chasing the stars, and I firmly believe that a movie that "doesn't convey any themes clearly" interprets me and my life. never change.
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"The Other Side of the Sky Blue" says that if you only love life and not death, it's because we don't really love life. When the dearest person around you dies, as soon as you close your eyes, you will sink into the darkness forever, and you will lose all consciousness. So you suddenly shiver on a sunny day, and suddenly hear a lonely heartbeat in the lively crowd.
I thought I was that kind of person, but when I saw the cat's death melt into a larger life, I felt relieved to return to the beginning. In this underground world without stars, the only place with stars is Yastrali, where all life ends. Does this setting mean that death is another beginning?
She couldn't forget her black color and said in the snow-covered cemetery: "Your father said that death is a part of life, but I..." Still couldn't suppress her crying mother; The teacher of the door; she also made the decision to embark on the journey for the young man who was engraved in her heart for a moment. But under the last night sky, she knelt on the ground—
"Why did you come to Agotei?"
"It turns out... I'm just, too lonely."
The stars are the meaning of life. Everyone who loves the starry sky says that human beings are so lonely under the starry sky, and the kind of regret that seems to be able to reach the stars when reaching out to the stars is actually so unforgettable. We are scrambling across the vast land, chasing the meaning that can seal the conclusion of our short life. However, often when we are about to reach the end, we become lost again. Audiences who know the ending of the movie, look back at the beginning, and understand that this journey to resurrect the dead, its beginning is ultimately to end, to say goodbye to the ties of the past. Although not the original intention. Although uneasy.
The living are relieved, and the dead rest in peace. How many people understand this truth. The Yagotai people are too aware of the shortness of life and the lack of meaning in this world, so they will embark on the road of perdition.
In the finale, Asuna ends the stormy journey and returns to real life. In the final scene, she hastily put on her shoes as usual. She turned around and smiled like a flower: "Mom, then I'm leaving." The following Hello, goodbye & hello sounded, which made me burst into tears in an instant, but my heart was like the sun shining all over the place in an instant. So we know that this is the end and the beginning.
That voice was always whispering in my ear: "It is a curse for mankind to continue to live with loss, but it must be, it must be a blessing."
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