DreamcastJunkie t1_jea1eva wrote
>An unusual deviation from the romance we are used to. Makoto Shinkai subverts everything we know about romance by not giving us a 'happily ever after'.
All of his movies were like this until Your Name. That Your Name doesn't have an overtly sad ending was kind of a twist at the time.
I think 5cm is the best of his anti-romance era. It does a great job of capturing how much a teenage crush can feel like your whole world, and also how easily it can slip away. Some people grow up by letting it go, and some grow up with those scars, but all of us move on somehow.
Phnrcm t1_jeame99 wrote
One of the reason the film is "in"famous is because it resonated with so many. Many had our first love and most never able to profess it just like how the 2 characters let the letter slip/unable to give the letter because of the external force (the wind) or the internal lack of courage that stopped us to convey our feeling.
The distance between the 2 person hearts drifts apart at the rate 5cm/s, the same speed of cherry blossom fall, slowly but surely.
I don't know a lot about western literature but in asia first love is a hot genre of romance literature. It has always been associated with melancholy, regret and bittersweetness about an unattainable yet most beautiful love.
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