Makoto Shinkai is a well-known director, producer and writer. He is capable of doing amazing movies, as we all know: "5 Centimeters Per Second", "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" and recently "The Garden of Words". Yes, Makoto Shinkai has nothing else to prove. However, this amazing director has an enormous ability: he uses our most beautiful feelings as a script and his characters are normal people who share with us this amazing emotion: love.
In "Dareka no Manazashi", Makoto Shinkai uses gorgeous scenarios, as usual. We are presented with a woman that struggles in this hasty society, and we learn that she feels very lonely. She is away from her parents and from her cat. In this short work, Shinkai explores our feelings towards animals and humans, and everyone will be able to understand Aya's emotions.
And this is the amazing part of it: you will be touched with only 6 minutes. Perhaps Shinkai created this short story so that we could watch it after a busy day at work, when everything seems so hopeless. But it's not, and this is what "Dareka no Manazashi" is trying to pass on. It's such a nice and beautiful movie that, in its simplicity, is absolutely wonderful.
Everything else is really nice: the art, the music. Overall, it is a very good shor story that will warm your heart.
