Lunn wa Kaze no Naka

This film features and explores multiple complex themes including bullying, obsession, escapism and depression.

The story is about a boy. The boy seems to have difficulties at discerning the reality around him due to his psychological issues. The boy is walking home from school when he finds an attractive young girl and that is where the story starts.

The story is portrayed from a warped perspective as the perspective features the MCs own perspective combined with the reality surrounding him. This creates a conflict between the boys point of interest and the visual representation of that interest. This conflict is explored in a brilliant way throughout this ... film. Portrayal of this interest and conflict throughout the story can be observed through the interactions that the MC has with other characters that are present in the perceived reality compared to the MCs own perspective.

The multilayered perspective of the storytelling is featured in the art as well the reality around the MC is obscured visually in bits and his own perspective in highlighted throughout the film. The design also enhances the conflict between the interest of the MC and the perceived reality. Overall the visual atmosphere and presence of the film in think is representative of the message and story of the film and reinforces the multilayered setting that is present. It also enables us to be able to experience the duality that can be found in the philosophy of the MC.

Sound design is another part of the series that flows well with the duality and multilayered setting of the film, the perceived effects and characters sound is amplified compared to the more muffled design of the surrounding effects and sound design. This creates a sort of fever dream like atmosphere that is present throughout the series and is supported by the visual department of the film as well. Overall the experience whrn it comes to audio is representing the character really well.

Now probably the most interesting part of the film, the characters. The film focuses on one character, the boy who is the MC of the film, and his philosophy compared to the perceived reality surrounding him and his character. That alone would provide a interesting character but the way his philosophy is portrayed throughout the film and how its portrayal and his struggle relates to the perceived reality is the part that I'm most impressed with. His struggle consists of depression and escaping the perceived reality through his obsession. Through this predicament he creates another "false" setting for himself where he draws himself in a more ideal setting. Choosing to live in that setting instead of the perceived reality surrounding him. His interactions and denial of the perceived reality are presented in superb manner through his interactions with the characters residing in the perceived reality. His struggle coming to accept his delusion and confronting the perceived reality with the safety net of his own setting is portrayed in a interesting way. Another interesting factor is the relationship that he has with his dad. The visual representation of his dad is always obscured in the film which suggests that he doesn't accept his dad as a part of his setting. His dad belongs to the perceived reality. He knows this and puts on a facade to deceive himself creating an interesting internal conflict within himself. You can see his struggle with this conflict and how it eats away him.

Overall the film portrays the psychological mental issues with heavy themes in a brilliant manner so I'd recommend it if you're interested in good internal struggle and exploration of themes such as obsession, bullying, escapism and depression. It is rare to come across a such in depth exploration of these themes combined with a visual atmosphere and multilayered setting such as this one.

Lunn Flies into the wind is quite the story. The concept of a boy falling in love with a girl on a coffee poster is one I've never heard of before, and most likely neither have you. But if you're here then this must mean something about the story interests you (or you're just wasting time looking for something to add to your watchlist because why not).

Story (with some spoilers) - 3/10

Alright, so basically there's this boy (I forgot his name) who hates everything, school, his existence, guys who bully him, make fun of him... and all that other good stuff. One day after ... school while going back home, the boy passes through an alley with a bunch of posters on the wall. A certain poster catches his eye, with this beautiful girl on it, when it was basically just meant to be an advertisement for coffee, nothing more. The girl on the poster has the ability to talk, but could not live longer if she stays in that place and on the wall. That alley is very dirty and wet, so the paper will slowly get weaker and weaker until its no more. She also will lose her beauty (color of the picture) and fade away from the water, if she stays there any longer. The boy then takes the poster home and all the way to his bedroom wall to spend more time with girl in the picture. He then announces he has a girlfriend to his father while having lunch. A few days later, he takes the poster to school, and bullies find out about the poster by breaking into his locker. He then safely retrieves the poster from them, and goes back home all beaten up. The boy promises the girl would never get hurt again, but things lead to other things, and he then suddenly wants to commit suicide. The poster thankfully talks him out of it, by explaining that she is just a picture, and therefore she must be a picture of someone, so he should go meet that someone in real life. The boy then retrieves his will to live, and his goal in life was to find that girl and be with her. For over a year he searched for her, and finally manages to find the woman in the picture, but she's just an old woman at that time, married to the artist who created the coffee advertisement poster. The boy then storms back to his room in a fit of rage, realizing he technically just wasted a year of his life, and throws the poster under his bed. Time passes, and he eventually forgets about the girl on the poster - he had moved on with his life, (a smooth one if I may add). One day, he accidentally stumbles across the poster and hangs it up on his bedroom wall like old times. The doorbell suddenly rings and he meets a girl who looks exactly like the girl on the poster. The girl then explains she's the daughter of the woman on the poster, and she mysteriously looks almost identical to her. The boy had invited her to his room by then, and the poster suggests to be hidden because it would be weird if the girl saw her mother on a random boys' wall. The poster then flies into the wind since the boy placed her in a spot were she'd be susceptible to being sucked out. The boy and daughter then appear together on the balcony looking at the poster fly away, and they then basically became a thing from that moment.


My thoughts in short:

Even with a story as intriguing and weird as this, I knew from the moment the boy met the poster, things won't be taking off in a good direction. I thought to myself how could this possibly become any more interesting than that? You just met a talking poster. In the end I was right, the story had lost it's "sparkle" and was all basically downhill from there. The story started to drag, and I by then had lost interest near the end. The main character isn't likeable at all, and the animation was fine I guess. The ending had somewhat of a cozy feeling to it, but honestly I couldn't care less about the boy anymore at that point. This was not emotional at all, and considering it's supposed to at least make us feel some sort of way but failed at doing so, I was disappointed. Would not recommend Lunn wa Kaze no Naka "Lunn Flies into the Wind" to anyone. Don't have high hopes for this. It sadly won't deliver.