Weather with You might be a serious contender for the 92 nd Academy Awards. Since the film is going to be screened in the Toronto International Film Festival, Shinkai is to have a bigger exposure in Hollywood. It’s a cinematic wonder that people should not miss. I watched it twice and when I understood the core of the film, I cried my heart out. It was presented so subtly that we may not realize what this film tried to argue in the first place. It may not be as romantic as Your Name, but Shinkai brought something else to the table: an extremely important topic to be discussed. Would it be okay to sacrifice an innocent teenage girl who was just trying to survive in Tokyo for a clear sky? Or would it be OK to accept the fact that the rain would never stop pouring even though it’s summer?Ĭompared to Your Name, Weathering with You has a stronger sense of urgency. Are we so careless toward Mother Nature that the only way we relate to her was by sacrificing a human being to restore the balance of nature?Īnd so the third act of the film explores that question. The weather would be back to normal if she sacrificed herself. That person happened to be Hina.īut Hina had a bigger purpose than just clearing the sky at someone's request. In the film, praying at the sacred shrine earns you control over the weather and restores the balance. Our society often takes the weather for granted so we do not recognize a weather anomaly. With that, Shinkai managed to portray our careless society. She was the only one who was willing to get out of a building, leaving her mother in the ICU to walk in the rain looking for the source of the light on an abandoned building and actually praying in the shrine. Hina was the only person who realized that there was a sunny day on a magical shrine. First, why Hina? The beginning of the film said it all. That statement triggered a lot of questions. In other words, Hina’s ability to control the weather had ramifications we know nothing about until the last part of the film's second act. A legend stated that the maiden who connects both the Earth and the sky should sacrifice herself. While in Your Name he played with how the Japanese perceived time, in Weathering with You Shinkai portrays the mystery of sky, Earth and a maiden who connects them both to create a balance. Shinkai still cleverly crafted Japanese spiritual values as a detrimental element in the film. It’s about how the world has changed and how we choose not to care. But upon dissecting the movie carefully, a more profound argument lies within. Weathering with You might look like an adventure/coming of age/comedy film about two teenagers trying to survive in Tokyo by controlling the weather. We learn that through these sequences, humans are selfish individuals who think only of their needs and not of others. Through this, we learn that people rely so much on the weather. We learn that the rain never stops to the point when people could not even have wedding ceremonies, marathon competitions, or even firework festivals. Hina and Hodoka decide to make a weathering service. Unlike Your Name, in which both of the main characters were separated until the third act of the film, director Makoto Shinkai decided that our two main protagonists in Weathering with You must meet in the first act of the film to portray how teenagers could survive in the vibrant life of Tokyo. It is summer, but strangely, the rain never stops pouring. We learn that this boy ran away from his home on an island to Tokyo. It does.įast forward and we meet Hodoka (Kotora Daigo), a 16-year-old boy who enjoys the rain as if it was the greatest gift on Earth. All she wanted was to have a sunny day to cheer up her mom, so she decides to get out of the hospital and goes to the rooftop of an abandoned building where she finds a shrine and a spot that wasn’t touched by the rain. As she stares out of the window, she realizes that she saw a light in the middle of a cloudy day. She is witnessing her mom lying in bed, fighting to live. Now, we see a reflection of our protagonist, Hina (Nana Mori) from the window of a hospital ward. The camera tracks out and we realize the scene we just saw was a view of a window. We could hear and see how hard it poured on the beautiful yet cloudy Tokyo. Mon, Aug 15:20 1416 0290f9de4aeb62f98549b410b582da84 3 Entertainment makoto-shinkai,Weathering-with-You,animation-movie,animation,Anime,#moviereview,#movies Free
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