Five centimeters per second, the speed at which the soul falls

Mariane 2021-12-24 08:01:57

When you are walking on a bustling street, suddenly, a familiar face appears in your eyes. Before I could take a closer look, the figure had passed by. When you look back, there is nowhere to look in the vast sea of ​​people, and the encounter just now, I don't know whether it is a real existence or an illusion in my mind. Suddenly, the name that had only raised his brows but was in his heart once again lingered like this.

I don’t know if you have ever had this kind of experience. At the end of "Five Centimeters Per Second", when Guishu and Mingli just missed it, what suddenly popped up in my mind was such a real memory.

Even if it is only five centimeters per second, the long time of thirteen years is just enough for two hearts to move from being close to each other to becoming the farthest distance on the earth—from the South Pole to the North Pole. Someone explained the title of the film. I don't know whether it is true or not, but this kind of literary and artistic statement is incomparably consistent with a certain scene described by Xin Haicheng in the film. Perhaps it can also be said that from treating love as the whole of life to forgetting how to love someone, our souls slowly slide down at a speed of five centimeters per second until they reach the abyss of hell.

In the Japanese animation industry where there are so many alternatives, Makoto Shinkai, whose narrative is plain and warm, has become an alternative. Every frame can be used as the beautiful background of the computer desktop is his biggest feature. The timeless and sentimental music brings the power of moving people's hearts to his films. People often feel sentimental and parting with the characters in his works. In his works, he realizes the irresistible destiny again and again. Xin Haicheng has never been a master of storytelling, but he has a power to make these seemingly plain stories hit the softest place in your heart at once.

The protagonist in Xin Haicheng's works has always just grown up to know what it's like to like a person. Whoever says that young people don’t know the feeling of sadness, and those who really put love, hatred, and hatred on their hearts, are often at this age. When he gets older and is attacked by the Huahua World, many things become less concerned. At this age, many things still have to decide on their own, such as where to settle, and what kind of future to choose.

For example, someone you fall in love with.

Ever remember, when did you learn how to love? In the past lush years, was it the glimpse of the sun in the sweaty physical education classroom, or the throbbing in the thin clothes in the sultry classroom? What a beautiful youth, what a happy love. Wind and rain can't stop the urge to meet you. The wind and snow are only for the flower of love that blooms for the first time in this life under the cherry tree.

Can you ever remember, when did you forget how to love? After repeated coveting, feasting and feasting, and a line of insincere false dialogue, maybe you have said that I love you ten thousand times, but the person you really want her to hear has already disappeared in your life, forever not coming back.

The dreams of each other are no match for the reality that each other has forgotten in the rivers and lakes.

If you sing well in the song, I will always meet someone who will live my life without her, get married and start a career and so on. Reasoning to the noble tree, or noble tree to the flower seedlings, after all, has become synonymous with the years in the memory, just like the youth in the memories, it will be forever beautiful.

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5 Centimeters per Second quotes

  • Akari ShinoharaTakaki Toono: *Akari and Takaki kiss for the first time*

    Takaki Toono: And right then it felt like I finally understood where everything was, eternity, the heart , the soul. It was like I was sharing every experience I'd ever had in my past 13 years. And then, the next moment, I became unbearably sad. I didn't know what to do with these feeling. Her warmth, her soul. How was I supposed to treat them? That, I did not know. Then right then, I clearly understood that we would never be together. Our lives not yet fully realized, the vast expanse of time. They lay before us and there was nothing we could do. But then, all my worries, all my doubt, started melting away. All that was left were Akari's soft lips on mine.

  • Takaki Toono: On that day... the day she called... Akari must've been so much more jittery and upset than me, yet I couldn't find the words to console her. I felt so ashamed of myself.