A few days ago, I watched the anime film "Your Name". I've heard about the movie on and off for the past few years, the way people talked about the movie was like it was the best movie that was ever made. Well, a few days ago I finally went ahead and watched the film, and honestly besides the visuals and music, which where fantastic, the overall story wasn't that impressive to me, and I'll try to explain why.
The gist of the story was about a boy and girl who swap bodies, because of a meteor strike, and then later on it goes from them swaping bodies, to time travel, which felt like they just put it in, to make the movie more interesting towards the end.
Most of the movie, you learn about the girl and her life, where she live, her family, friends, and school, and then towards the end, it shows how her mom died, her dad leaving the family, and her and her little sister staying with her grandma. With the boy, besides him living with his dad, you don't learn much about him, besides the fact that he works at a restaurant. So when it came to learning about the two main characters, it honestly felt uneven. Besides the visuals and the music, I honestly don't know why the movie was hyped up so much. Because I'm sorry but I've seen much better movies when it came to themes of falling in love, and the struggles of being separated by distance. One movie that tackled both of those themes very well was one called, 5cm per second, it was a love story about a boy and girl, who grew up together, and after a few years, the girl had to move away, it showed them writing letters back and forth to each other, and showing their life struggles over the years, after they were separated.
Going back to the film Your Name, it's just my opinion but to me, they didn't handle the theme of them being separated that well.. For one thing, they didn't even know about each other at all, and then all of a sudden they changed bodies with each other, I almost got confused at first while watching it, and sure they learned more about each other's lives, but in my opinion it didn't feel organic, them "falling in love". I say that because when they finally met up with each other, it felt like they barely knew each other. Another thing, the whole traveling back in time, besides for suspense, I didn't see a reason for it at all. I understand that love stories are popular, but at least try to make a decent movie, not hype it up so much, that when you finally see it, it feels like you wasted over 2 hours of your life watching it. The film Suzume did a much better job at love, not just romantic love, but family love and self-love too, when I was done watching the film Suzume, I honestly didn't feel like I wasted my time, yes the movie was long, but I enjoyed myself while watching it. With Your Name, I'm sorry, but I'll never watch that film again.
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