Damn that train!
The different between animation and real movie are not much actually. A great movie (generally) must have a great storyline and a great director. The director play vital role transmits all this grand idea visually, from actor, music, scenery and etc.
But for animation director, the hardest part is always be how to captivate audience with all the drawings to be alive. That why sometime we feel a bit lost when this character failed to deliver emotion to the audience. Director like Hayao Miyazaki with level of his details, stubbornness and perfectionist transform most his film become truly art, He successfully manage to confine his viewers dissolve in the movie.
Although Miyazaki is great, but there is something lack about his movie, which is realism. He prefers to make a fairytales, folks and fantasy genres. Most of animation does, we see a lot superhero type, gruesome monster devils and many more. I don’t see it is wrong but sometime it lose a group of audience that looking forward to more logical and real story.
Spirited Away hooked up with is unbelievably weird story of character and the scenery. My Neighbour Totoro strength must be on it folklore character storyline, Princess Mononke loaded with it wonderful moral inside it, and Howl’s Moving Castle blow us away by it stunning world . Some people say Grave Of Fireflies is the saddest Miyazaki story, I am sorry peeps, and honestly I don’t feel anything when watching it. For me, it just a fact story what happen during world war II in Japan.
5 Centimetres per Second, when see the title, the first thing across my mind it must be about robot or mecha but it’s not. It is rated one of the great anime movie all time. This movie has a lot of realistic view of human emotion about it. It consists of 3 chapters about the struggling of distance relationship between Takaki and Akari from their childhood till adult. It a short film, must watch and definitely make you feel uneasy about yourself.
The soundtrack is effing sad and just right. It is one of a lifetime movie and yea I am feeling uncomfortable about it too.
The things I had to tell her…
The things I hoped she would listen to…
There were so many of them.
Toono Takaki (5cm per second)
Thank you Makoto Shinkai for a touching movie, next I probably explore Satoshi Kon masterpiece ,Paprika.