- What?
- The speed at which cherry blossom petals fall, 5 centimeters per second."
One of the biggest mistakes we make in my opinion is that we find the relationships we have with others are somehow ready or stable.
We think every mom has to love a child, that we will not lose the will to keep a promise made years ago, and mostly, we think that when we fall in love, when we found a 'perfect someone', we feel that strong affection... and think that this will never change.
This is a serious mistake.
All affections and relationships are in a constantly changing exercise. They must be built every day, they are a mutant process.
A mother is not obliged to love a child without deserve it. A friendship, a love can change depending on how are they involved.
It is on this issue that this film from Makoto Shinkai focus: Relationships, affections and they become changing little by little, without us noticing.
Takaki and Akari are two children who are not part of any group, no friends, but together they complete each other. A beautiful friendship.
However, Akari will have to move to another city, going away from Takaki. The pain of loss, of not having that dear next door always... but even far away, they promise to keep their relationship, mainly through letters.
A year later, which will now be Takaki move, increasing the distance between the two even more... But before he goes, Takaki ' touches a fuck ' on a train enters and goes to visit Akari, trying to keep his promise, their relationship, and mainly the affection that unites them.
This anime has 3 parts. The first is that I reported the above, the second counts as Takaki and Akari try to keep your distance relationship in adolescence, and the third when the two are already adults.
Well, this is my favorite work of Makoto Shinkai (beside the beautiful Kotonoha in Niwa) and follows the same characteristics of the author's work: beautiful traits that show from the most beautiful natural landscape, to the routine and alienating gray market work and adult life. Since giving a bird swooped up a machine pounding clothes.
With a simple and charming soundtrack and theme song by closing with a key - of - gold at the last episode, summarizing the whole relationship of Takaki and Akari, giving us an ending that... holy shit.
With that footprint that only has in Makoto movies, this story picks up where it hurts, where we all see it, somehow... after all, the message is clear:
Just like a cherry blossom falls just 5 centimeters per second, our relationships and affections are made of small moments and change very slowly... but after a while, the cherry tree loses all its flowers, becoming unrecognizable. So also our relations become something that may be completely different than it was before.
A film that makes us think how we have built and maintained our relationships. Wonderful.
