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"Weathering With You" The boy who runs away with a gun and meets 100% Haruno, can you save the world if you don't fall in love?

Don’t think too much, just walk into "Xinhaicheng World"

By Algernon CharleboisPublished 3 years ago 8 min read
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In today’s era when it’s almost impossible to tell the difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter, if you think Xin Haicheng will make a major transformation this time, he will use "Weathering With You" to warn the world and expose the secrets of the world to persuade everyone to get out of the theater. Remember to classify the popcorn boxes and drink cups in your hand. This task is to be handed over to Studio Ghibli. After all, come to pay homage to the works of "Eros" Shinkai Makoto. Who wants to watch the river god bath (taken from " "Movie of the Week"), of course, it depends on what level the boys and girls have to break this time, how far apart they have to be, and how long they have to run to compose this year's late summer love song!

Perhaps (your name?) has become a universal stalk into the streets and alleys. I always feel that "Your Name" has just been off the stage, and "Weathering With You" has been a new work in three years! The protagonist Morijima Hodaka escapes from his home island to Tokyo, and visits a magazine that collects all kinds of strange things. Days of heavy rain caused the magazine to pay attention to the urban legend of "Haruna". Unexpectedly, Hougao unexpectedly encountered a girl who can bring sunshine through "prayer"-Amano Haruna.

It's just that once you interfere with the operation of nature, you always have to pay a price. In the face of the uncertain weather and the life that is out of control, how should Fan Gao and Yang Cai choose their lives, and what they have to give up.

Whether it’s "Your Name" or "Weathering With You", these young girls will always save the world from destruction before confirming their relationship, but from the beginning, they can tell from the beginning of the story with the characters. For Xin Haicheng The depiction of "characters (people)" is still the most important thing. No matter how wonderful it is, it is also a supporting role. So the survival of mankind will be put before extinction. Who says that there is only one kingly road between big love and little love. Woolen cloth?

The young girl who can always shake the world...whose world it is

Whenever they decide to implement their own ideas or fall into a relationship, many people will feel this way. They always feel that everything around them will be implicated by each other's actions... "Weathering With You" For me, it feels like this. The climate mentioned here is not a natural phenomenon that is usually recognized, but more like feeling the changes of people and things outside from the heart.

If you look at it from this angle, you can better understand that although the story is set with the theme of "climate abnormality", it does not follow the established routine of discussing environmental pollution; or the boss of the magazine at the end, Keisuke Xiang Fangao, said that it should not be caused. When he felt guilty in the end, Fan Gao firmly believed that his choice with Yang Cai changed the world, for better or for worse. In the cognition of adults, children do not have absolute decision-making power. Even if they do, they are only indirectly related. The credit is not entirely yours, and the responsibility is not all to you, but for children, this is not the case. It should be said. Everyone believes that they have a certain influence in their hearts.

A climate out of order, a trade-off beyond control

Since ancient times, the weather and mood have always seemed to be a connected or corresponding relationship: sunny days bring good moods, trigger the sad mood festival, and also turn on the button of downpour. However, in the 21st century when the climate is becoming more and more abnormal, this is a relative relationship. The indicators have become more and more inaccurate. After all, the future "Winter Sonata" may not be able to fall in the snow. You have to bring an extra coat when you are going out to prepare for the summer season. But as the movie says, the climate is not based on humans. The standard is running, how can it be normal or abnormal?

The weather is like the surrounding social environment. The continuous heavy rain and heavy snowfall in midsummer are like an uncontrollable life. Just like Fan Gao who runs away from home and Yang Na who lives with his younger brother, both want to get rid of adults. Control (family or child welfare office) but can't do anything; or the boss Keisuke who hired Fan Gao and his wife Natsumi who also works in the magazine, one is struggling to fight for the custody of his daughter, and the other is eager for stability. The job is not hired. However, if the world around you is already crazy, you shouldn’t stick to your own opinions, and you don’t necessarily have to cater to secular ethics. Instead of losing your own standards, you can lead to win-win endings... at least. Not the end of the world.

Xinhaicheng Universe OPEN? These people are so familiar!

Compared with the surprises he arranged for the audience, Shinkai Makoto’s dedication to the fineness of the picture has become a less-mentioned advantage. After all, the actor Tachibana Taki of "Your Name" has been added to the client of "Haruna". Isn’t it just that you expect to hear the exclamation of the audience in the cinema! (In fact, I really heard it). Seeing that the man has already performed the concept that his fiancée will also come out to earn money, Miyamizu Mitsuba also appeared in the image of a mature woman, causing the audience to gasp again! (Okay, okay, calm down, everyone) In fact, not only the male and female protagonists, but also many supporting actors in "Your Name" have participated in the performance. Not only that, if you also study the animation voice actors, you can compare it to the surrounding audience at the moment. Get more fun, such as discovering that there are eggs in the play, such as the appearance of the character "Coriander" with the same name as the voice actor "Hanazawa Coriander".

Interestingly, different ideas can still be heard in the unanimously praised voices, such as:

"Where is that gun?"

Setting is setting, if you really lose it!

"Weathering With You" is mainly a love story that takes place in a fantasy event. However, when Fan Gao picked up a gun and rescued Yang Cai, he shot in order to get out of the trap. In the end, he was chased by the police with suspicious elements. The eyes are bright-will there be another unexpected branch in this work? A sentence from the phrase "Full of Golden Armor in the City":

"Heaven and earth, everything I give you is yours."

Just like the reason why Fan Gao flees home, there is no plan to give a clear explanation. It is a prop to promote the development of the plot.

We can speculate from the injuries on Fan Gao’s face when he chased the sun in his hometown that it might be a factor of domestic violence, while the escape to Tokyo is a process of teenagers’ desire for independence; the same logic can also be used to regard Fan Gao’s shooting behavior as The performance of breaking through the shackles of self and society, acting bravely for what one wants, but still can't help being full of curiosity about this "gun" at the moment. It's just that with the later work of the film gradually fermenting: such as the beautiful pictures, the vast sky, the pink bubbles of maddening singles, the thrilling speed chase (it was Hattori and Conan in an instant), and the imminent new sea Under the BGM created by RADWIMPS under the charge of Cheng Yuyong Music, and the BGM that touches the heartstrings and makes people tears in time, whether it is the appearance of the gun or the smuggler, it doesn't really matter, the point is shocking enough!

So don’t think too much, just walk into "Xinhaicheng World"

"Weathering With You" is a work of great tension. The richness of its elements allows the plot to be compact and there is room for breathing. The scope is as large as the sky determines the survival of the world, and the mood of each character changes from five to five. The characters with distinctive personalities see the priorities that children and adults consider for everything, how each other learns and grows, can experience fantasy adventures from movies, and can also experience the hardships of reality.

It is precisely because all aspects of the film have "considered a lot" for the film audience, basically I suggest that Xinhaicheng who is novice please feel free to accept everything that "Weathering With You" brings, otherwise you may worry about whether such a plot will give you a lot of money. Teenagers with weaker brainwaves bring bad demonstrations—for example, shooting police to meet Yang Na’s side, but juvenile delinquency can always be forgiven too much—or high sailing. The monologue and the theme song in the middle, like shooting a MV, is also a place for me to "choose in a timely manner, but can lead to the win-win ending, at least not the end of the world"... This is called thinking. Too much.

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Algernon Charlebois

Love is happy because of persistence, and love because of persistence is also painful; love is born because of fate, and love is broken because of fate.

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