In time, the feeling of hide-and-seek is the most brain-burning. Your Name tells the story of a rural town deep in the mountains of Japan. San Ye, a high school girl, leads a depressing and boring life every day. Her distress is not only the general election fitness campaign organized by her father as a township head, but also the long-standing customs and habits of the ancestral temple. "The afterlife will turn me into a handsome boy in Tokyo, Japan," Sanye shouted into the distance. Just the morning before the meteorite was about to visit the earth, her dream came true. She exchanged her bodies with Long, a high school student in Tokyo, Japan. The scattered leaves entered the dragon's body and crossed to Tokyo, Japan, while the dragon rushed to the headquarters to find the body of the scattered leaves. But no one around you noticed anything unusual. After body exchange and living together, two people gradually get used to each other, and gradually develop a good impression in the overlap of time and body.
The film describes the main points of the life and psychological state of boys and girls. After the initial physical exchange, the gender consciousness of Helong gradually awakened, and then the ugliness and embarrassment in life continued to arise. The two experienced different lives in each other's bodies, their feelings gradually sprouted, and then they got to know each other more and more, trying to find each other in real life.
The exchange of body not only produces the absurdity of comedy, but also the boy himself and the boy are in the girl's body, and the girl herself and the girl are in the boy's body. This kind of plot setting also expands the narrative angle of the film and gives the characters a multi-level life course. The parallel worlds in which the two protagonists live make Tokyo and Japan's small cities shine in each other's eyes, vividly showing the regional characteristics of Japan's intelligent international metropolis and simple folk culture. This parallel treatment of fashion and traditional style is precisely the realism of all Japanese China humanistic customs at present.
In Your Name, Makoto Shinkai not only independently narrated the two case clues in the parallel world, but also appropriately got rid of and combined the role, time and indoor space at any time and place. In the first half of the film, when two people swap bodies, both the protagonist himself and the off-screen audience feel that things just happen in different parallel spaces at the same time. When anyone thought it was a short story that traveled through time and space, and the artistic conception was refreshing and beautiful, the hero Long tried to contact with his mobile phone, only to find that he couldn't get through temporarily and the body exchange came to an abrupt end. The dragon also took this opportunity to gradually enter the journey of finding the other side, and the ups and downs of time were revealed. It turns out that this small town, which was destroyed in a meteorite fall three years ago, is in harmony with Sanye, now Tokyo and Dragon in Japan.
After the first setting in Swap Bodies, the film director threw out the second setting: Time Shift. This "moonlight box" style of time transcendence gives the character the super ability to predict the future, and also stimulates the climax of science fiction films "changing historical time and restarting the universe". How the leading role of boys and girls saves the earth and the townspeople in their distrust of adults also makes this film no longer limited to the narrow layout of love grievances between men and women, but only shows a magnificent and humanized service.
How to express the cross-dimensional touch through time and space with traditional Japanese logical thinking? Makoto Shinkai came up with a word with a long history-"contact". This word means that everything in the world will not be limited by space and time. Whether it is an ordinary Tokyo boy living in the future, a town that has already been destroyed, or even space and natural disasters, it is the initial admiration for Japan's fantasy pantheism. As Valkyria passed down from generation to generation, Sanye's mother and grandmother both had the dream of exchanging bodies with others when they were young, which proved that Valkyria, who guarded the village, was closely related to the fate of the town, and had some speculations and precursors about the disaster destroyed by meteorites. At the end of the film, combined with the dragon's time in the evening, they met again. The dragon returned the knot that had been tied to his wrist to Sanye. This knot, which originally belonged to the scattered leaves, is also a connection between the two people's life trajectories.
As Sanye's grandmother often said, "The connection between knots is knots, the connection between people is knots, and the passage of time is knots. They are all the same word and the energy of God". Everything in the world is a knot, which is connected in constant operation. Makoto Shinkai used a very long and slow script to present in detail the scenery that the dragon saw when he was drunk and worshiped God. Falling meteorites, concepts in transmission, loose knots, and even the fetal umbilical cord that was broken after the delivery of Sanye's mother. This bright red wireframe, as a "knot", flutters in mid-air, twists and turns, and finally becomes a knot tied on the wrist. The life, space and time of two people are linearly intertwined.