The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 306 2 2016 [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to be [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► uncomfortable i am your host Jason stell [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► I'm convening another edition I'm i [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► merely the teaching assistant to [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► professor John siracusa this is anime [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► 103 the third in our series of episodes [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► in which John siracusa assigns us anime [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► to watch and comment on [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► hi John I Jason did you do the homework [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► this week I did all the homework all [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► that amazing you assigned less of it and [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► therefore i did was just keep lowering [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► the bar until you succeed I crossover [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► that low bar that's what I did [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► joining me as in addition to being a [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► teaching assistant i am also a student [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► joining me my fellow students in the [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► anime one of three class allene sims [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► hello hello [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► I did the homework to at the last minute [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► m which is pretty pretty on par for how [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► I do things that's that's better as long [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► as you have done before the class that's [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► that's good enough and Erica and sign [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► also i assumed it all the homework i did [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► i did last night go see what makeup and [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► once again I'm the anime teacher's pet [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► yeah yeah alright John explain to us [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► what did we watch and why did you choose [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► what kind of back to the the original [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► format which was multiple things by the [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► same director or artists are you know a [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► single person vision it was toned down [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► this time telling me to two things were [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► going to watch we watched too i guess [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► you would call the movies both of them [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► are very short [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► more like short films by makoto shinkai [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► and I like to think to myself and have [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► only seen a little bit of his work that [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► he has made the same movie three times [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► we only watched two of them now I pick [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► some book ends here the one in the [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► middle we kind of skipped over i think [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► it would've been fun to include up i [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► think two is more than enough to get the [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► flavor and the thing is I liked this [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► movie all three times I saw it and I [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► think is interesting things to say about [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► each one it's not really the same I just [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► you know you did this like like the [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► first episode of this we did which I [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► think was a photo she come you can see [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► the through line you can see the artist [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► you can see a single person's vision [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► in our idea our sensibilities coming [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► through and all these movies and I think [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► that's the thing that's fun [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► yeah so we watched voices of a distant [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► star which is short [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► it's what 20 minutes-ish and five [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► centimeters per second which is a little [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► over an hour long or it's basically an [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► hour-long with a little over with [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► credits but it's basically an hour long [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► and so but what's interesting about five [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► centimeters per second is it itself is [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► split into three stories so it really is [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► sort of like we watched for short [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► stories that are kind of though I mean [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► the man want the 15 centimeters per [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► second are interlinked they are you know [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► we follow a character through but [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► they're all all connected and then you [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► know John you nailed it i was actually [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► really laughing when i got to the the [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► when I opened five centimeters per [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► second and flex and I saw the plot [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► synopsis i just watched voices of a [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► distant star and I just laughed because [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► I was like oh okay so it's the same [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► movie except with you were aliens got it [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► their voices are just star which is when [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► we should start with is that I i became [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► to know it mostly because of its origins [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► as this thing that one person [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► essentially made with very little help [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► usually animated movies no matter how [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► strong the artistic vision behind it [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► takes a team of people because it's [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► really hard to get a draw lots of [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► pictures and then there's voice acting [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► and there's music and then there's but [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► you know the sequence of putting it all [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► together and this was a thing made or so [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► the legend goes by like one person just [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► did everything like got got his [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► girlfriend to do the voices he did the [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► other voice got a friend of his to do [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► the music he drew all the animation he [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► did all the very primitive early 2000 [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► cgi on his power mac g4 and just use the [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► bunch of software programs that he had [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► to essentially make a miniature movie [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► all by his lonesome and so that's that's [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► how I came to be attractive like wow [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► someone's using a mac to make this anime [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► thing about at this point I I like a dot [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► on the merits and some of the sort of [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► handmade home rolled a single person [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► made this qualities show through in the [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► movie but i still think it's charming [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► yeah so let's start with voices of a [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► distant star since that is the earlier [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► of these two [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► and I it is more traditionally anime i [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► would say in the sense that most of em [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► again i know i have a skewed view as an [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► American of this is a genre but to me so [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► much anime and and perhaps so much more [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► in Japanese culture that American [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► culture there is a sci-fi influence and [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► but not not not all as we've seen with [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► with other anime that we've seen and as [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► well see with five centimeters per [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► second actually but here we have it's [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► your your your classic boy meets girl [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► girl enters a robotic spaceship killing [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► machine and goes to various far-off many [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► light-years away locations and fights [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► aliens happens every day in Japan [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► typical you know it is tails all this [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► yeah uh yeah hey yeah its beauty and the [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► tar seein ya i was i was so in for this [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► for a moment what I'd heard voices of a [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► distant star but I had never watched it [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► before so it was nice to have an [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► opportunity to do that and just from the [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► very beginning where you get the very [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► opening sequence where she is you know [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► she thinks she's in the classroom and [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► then suddenly realizes that she's alone [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► she's talking about how the world is [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► places that her cell phone can can reach [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► to send a message to and then realizes [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► she's not in this world anymore and I'm [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► like whoa what's going on as soon as I [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► sort of figured out kind of where where [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► they actually were in what was what was [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► happening I mean I i admit i love [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► teenybopper drama in anime category [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► orange road has one of my favorite anime [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► series is that seemed like I don't know [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► middle school kids and takes place in [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► basically in junior high and I adore max [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► stuff like I don't care what people say [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► the original three gun movies they're [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► not boring i love them so this took kind [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► of those to animate rope things that I [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► love so much and jam them together into [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► like this this stop choc full 25 minutes [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► of the tropes that I like added you know [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► and then later on top you get this kind [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► of classic sci-fi trope of the time [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► distances between different people who [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► are we're talking and trying to send [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► messages [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► from light-years apart so it was kind of [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► like it was tailor-made for one me [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► yeah i mean this so the story is the the [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► girl whose name is Ayano borough is the [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► boy was just does she have a name me is [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► a macaque oh it's becca yeah I'm she boy [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► and girl meet but you know she goes off [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► and joins the the United Nations [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► spaceflight or as it's labeled on the [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► side of one of the buildings or maybe [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► it's the train its United Nations spacey [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► which i think is you'll see an anime [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► many times over [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► united nations spacey I and so she goes [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► and she's in one of these like Max and [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► there that we learned the backstory that [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► aliens attack Mars and there are the the [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► tarsi and ruins where the where the [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► aliens attacked in the tarsus crater and [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► so she is now out among the stars for [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► she's a Pluto she's marshy the Pluto and [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► then they're going to go a light-year [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► away and then there and then they end up [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► eight light-years away at serious and [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► she is sending on her little um on her [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► little cell phone that's like the old [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► style whereas your texting it makes the [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► Ted touch tones and stuff and there's [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► she said it was just adorable off now [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► introduce exc sending texts like what is [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► that t nine is she sending texts the [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► Japanese equivalent to back to the boy [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► who is back there and so like Erica said [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► you get the time-dilation thing it's not [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► quite the problem [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► thirdly it speed of light so it she [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► sends these messages and he's not going [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► to get them for a year or eight years [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► but if they go faster than the speed of [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► light it doesn't mean she couldn't get [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► back faster than that it's I sometimes [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► in this I felt like that maybe the story [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► thought that she was kind of [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► time-traveling forward but that that [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► didn't seem to make sense to me all I [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► don't know maybe that's not how this [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► works but I got hung about that a little [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► they could they could were back but the [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► ideas they're not going to do not do [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► never intended there other difference to [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► the target she's on this mission yeah [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► they could work back like in other words [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► she could outrun her messages background [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► the whole ship could warp lesson today [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► I'm [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► back today but that's not how it's gonna [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► go don't listen to that message i sent [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► eight years from now you're gonna get a [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► half of a message but ignore it i'm back [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► you know it's the story of its like like [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► a message from far away like from from [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► in the past when it would take longer [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► for communication happened that's what's [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► happening here so so they're separated [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► and now it's like I you know it's been a [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► year and you see him a year older and [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► then it's been eight years and you see [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► him eight more years older and that's [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► this is not exactly still 15 or whatever [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► it's still don't know but it's this [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► long-distance letter-writing kind of a [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► kind of longing for one another but it's [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► far away and there's nothing they can do [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► about it sadness that is is also i [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► didn't know that the standard uniform [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► for driving a mac in it is a schools are [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► 14 minutes apart surprisingly versatile [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► in Japan yes can use it for many [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► occupations thanks United Nations this [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► this thing it you know and you know that [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► all the all the traditional anime [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► stereotypes and trucks that are in this [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► you've got you know you've got school [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► girls you got the kids in middle school [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► you have young people piloting max I [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► think this one does lots of shots of [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► power lines [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► yeah but this one does a pretty good job [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► of mixing the two because that theme of [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► story of like a bunch of kids in school [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► and they're going to have relationships [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► and all sorts of problems in dramas [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► that's that's common to many cultures [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► including Japan and lots of stories [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► about that and this one [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► intermix is the the tech stories with [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► that story as if it's two separate anime [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► so it's pretty much entirely devoted to [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► the relationship thing and and you know [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► people wondering about feelings and [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► being distant from each other and all [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► that stuff and just slices and dices it [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► right in with people in space and stuff [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► like the same in the beginning she's [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► she's hesitant to tell him that she's [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► going to be going because she knows it's [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► going to be sad and she's kind of also [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► leaving him behind it she is the smarter [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► and more skilled of the two she's she's [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► able to go on this mission he's not so [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► that the important thing you should have [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► to tell her her you know friend / [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► boyfriend is that she has to go fly [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► giant robots but it could just as well [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► been [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► say moving to a different town as well [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► see in the next movie and that same [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► thing when she's in this whole movie [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► just fighting aliens [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► she's just training shooting down drones [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► protecting her fleet all that is going [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► on and yet the narration and the scenery [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► and everything about it is all about [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► worrying about this boy back home and [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► the distance between them and like as an [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► aside [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► she's shooting aliens yeah which I love [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► because it it really gets at the sort of [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► the feeling that it pervades all the all [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► of his stuff really like what is it like [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► to be a kid of this age encountering [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► these feelings so the first time how [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► all-consuming is that it's so [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► all-consuming that it trumps everything [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► else like being in a giant robot [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► shooting aliens and fighting for the [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► survival of humans across light-years [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► and everything like that that is that is [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► almost a sideshow to the the emotional [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► turmoil that is that the heart of the [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► story and i love i love the [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► juxtaposition those things and clearly [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► this director does too he he loves many [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► things the table come back to many times [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► but the putting everyday life against [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► the massiveness of Space and Technology [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► and aliens is is always a fun [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► juxtaposition I find an anime when the [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► her spaceship is about to go into space [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► warp and get jump light-year away sheet [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► we get the shot of her inside her mac [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► and she's really upset because like her [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► phone is floating in zero g and she's [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► like oh but if I don't send my text [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► messages before we jump there then [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► they're not going to go for a year and [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► that's like that's the end she like is [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► meanwhile yeah occasionally blasting [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► enemies and getting over to the ship so [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► that she doesn't get left behind but [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► she's also very concerned about her text [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► going out which is kind of adorable [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► mhm and and I think the little film [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► makes you as the the viewer also be [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► concerned about her to getting your [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► texts that might be mostly because it [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► doesn't spend a lot of time telling you [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► all about the mission and the aliens and [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► like that is that is not the world that [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► our characters are are in right there [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► just you know just heard you're up to [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► this world whatever it's just it's just [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► work right and even barely that because [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► she even even share as this precocious [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► child who is [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► qualified to pilot these next for [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► whatever reason that they always end up [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► five lines max she's a little bit in [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► over her head to like she's all just [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► kind of crunched up in her little pop [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► there we don't see lots of friends and [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► people and superiors talking to her even [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► like the other pilots in the other [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► mixture connection is entirely back home [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► so we don't want her to lose that [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► connection even as we see the giant ship [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► like crackling and warping beneath her [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► like some ship could warp out and she [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► would be there is stranded in space and [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► dead or the aliens could attack and kill [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► her and the ship but we really worried [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► or at least I am watching it [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► she should get that phone back she's [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► gonna be eight years away and you don't [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► get it's like long-distance relationship [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► is one thing she said it's kind of like [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► air mail and they're like no not airmail [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► 8.6 light-years deal with that I think [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► they did a really good job or the art [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► style is really good at showing how [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► isolating that feeling is to like that i [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► don't want to be say like unrequited [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► love but you know that i don't know like [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► having a crush on somebody and knowing [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► that nothing is going to come of it is [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► really kind of in isolating feeling like [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► you could have contact and you know [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► whatever but really you're kind of alone [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► in it and I thought that the way you [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► know the the mac kinda faded in and out [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► and you know in in for battles and then [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► kind of out during you know the the [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► frantic text messaging and I thought it [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► Illustrated it really well [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► yeah definitely and I mean I mentioned [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► the shots of power lines which is a [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► thing that I have seen in a lot of [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► different anime i think used to for sort [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► of different reasons in different ones I [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► I kind of like to sort of anachronistic [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► idea that in this case the power lines [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► are supposed to sort of represent the [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► communication and the fact that her [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► messages are are going along these you [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► know totally different types of lines [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► but we keep getting reminded of of [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► communications by by looking at the at [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► the power lines over and over and over [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► again so my favorite thing and anime as [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► i mentioned every one of these episodes [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► so heavily featured in this like most of [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► the time anime has one or two scenes [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► that do this thing where they will show [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► you some moment or sensation or whatever [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► like this one almost the entire thing is [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► made up of seems like that and it is so [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► pervasive because it's not just like one [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► shot that takes you like to a different [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► place the different headspace the whole [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► movie takes you two different headspace [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► and it combines to give you an [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► incredible sense of of place like it's [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► clear that the people who made this [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► movie this place that they're showing [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► you all these different scenes and every [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► lingering detail on a railing a [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► powerline a set of fences or barriers in [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► a city or asphalt or like just the way [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► they're the this is real place on earth [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► that they're very intimately familiar [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► with the camera spends a lot of time not [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► pointing at people's faces or maybe not [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► pointing characters that also but just [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► showing things like I mean we know this [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► guy likes trains go they go back and [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► forth he likes the details of the little [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► guardrails that come up and down the [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► power lines everyone and not just that [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► the power lines of the communications [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► but there are so many of them that this [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► is clearly like you know nineties a era [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► Japan where the number of wires going [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► everywhere like the density of the [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► population the number of wires going [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► over is just insane and all the nature [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► and the nature sounds everything like [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► that it's it's very unconventional [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► reconstructed it's almost kind of like a [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► Terrence Malick movie or something where [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► you have all these lingering shots of [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► city machinery and nature and empty [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► rooms with nobody in them and with just [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► some lightning wind blowing through them [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► and you're like it is this is a is this [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► a tone poem versus actual and actually a [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► narrative but this movie managers I [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► think to construct a narrative mostly [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► out of scenes not involving characters [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► let alone characters in modem you're [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► talking like this [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► I don't know if he was up for the you [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► know how much times attempt they spend [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► showing a character space with emotion [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► on it almost all the emotion this movie [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► is done through what the characters c [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► and and what it reminds me mostly of is [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► like like a memory like your live this [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► this whole movie is like a memory [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► because you live something that's like [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► yeah you go through your day or whatever [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► but when you think back oh that that [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► summer I spent in Tokyo or whatever you [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► think back on these type of moments and [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► this is like a memory reached backwards [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► it came all the way back to the present [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► and these people are living in it now [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► even though this is how they're going to [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► remember it later it's it's really weird [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► sensation it's a and it's something that [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► animation conduct can do pretty well [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► because people are more count tolerant I [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► think of unconventional storytelling [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► when it's animated and especially when [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► you have robots flying around and they [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► don't mind that you're going to spend a [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► seven-second shots showing the little [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► heater that's in a little building for [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► in the wintertime when it gets cold [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► no it actually took me until the second [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► movie before I recognize pick out was [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► because because it wasn't like doing [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► anything that's like huh I wonder what [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► that is and then later and adapt you [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► what you'll see it again don't worry i [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► think the I think that this does a [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► better job of it visually than it does [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► you know from put anchoring you in a in [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► a place in a feeling than it does when [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► it comes to the actual sort of narration [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► and info dumps and stuff when it first [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► started I didn't mind the info dumps at [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► the beginning because at the very very [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► beginning you've got the two kids [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► together in in life and it's this hyper [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► active young boy who is just jabbering [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► on a mile a minute which seems very very [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► realistic he's talking about space and [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► all that kind of stuff so that's that's [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► where you learn about that it didn't [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► strike me as you know well as you know [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► Bob it wasn't one of those because it [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► was just the way kids talk and then when [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► it was messages being read out loud in [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► between them you know in either one of [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► their voices that was fine too because [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► those are the messages that they are [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► reading and hearing in the other [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► person's voice in their head so that was [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► fine but as it got kind of towards the [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► second half towards the end it was it [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► was really most of it was just voiceover [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► from especially the boy talking to [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► himself or just doing a voiceover I [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► guess to tell us how he made his [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► decision to live his life in his time [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► and how he stuck with that but but those [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► words were not really diegetic in any [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► way they weren't him reading off a [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► message they weren't him writing in a [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► diary at least not that we can see so I [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► felt like it's stuck out a little bit [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► more like a sore thumb because there was [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► no in story reason for it whereas [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► earlier in this piece all of the all of [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► the words that we were getting really [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► were a part of the fabric of what it was [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► we were seeing it's almost like we had a [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► time crunch there it's like [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► let me get this thing finished at some [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► point he knows all and i also wonder if [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► it was kind of intended to be if i could [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► get an email to her in a timely manner [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► this is what it would say like that's [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► the thing that I've I do all the time as [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► I compose things that I never actually [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► right in my head and so maybe that's [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► that can be a way to kind of hand waving [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► okay to just very much felt like he was [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► talking to us and not himself [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► yeah yeah i mean like this a problem [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► with the structure of this movie as you [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► have these two and you pull them apart [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► at a certain point that distance become [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► so great that the boys left sort of [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► abandoned but if you don't introduce any [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► other characters who does he have to to [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► tell this too is only so much you can [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► express through the scenery lie i would [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► argue the five centimeters per second is [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► a much better job of showing the short i [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► think in by the time five centimeters [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► per second comes along this same [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► director writer and this you know like [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► it was better able to show how people [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► are feeling without having them simply [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► to read I like I decided to harden my [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► heart and I was gonna like you are right [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► we can get that in other ways but in [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► this movie is to write us to just said [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► straight out although i think the reason [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► i'm mostly distracted by what is a lot [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► of on-the-nose dialogue and riding in [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► this and it's hard to tell a lot of his [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► bad translation to but it's very it's [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► very sort of in the voice of characters [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► this age and characters age are silly [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► and don't know anything so they're very [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► very overblown and dramatic and and so [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► that's you know and so that that's the [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► the dialogue but at the same time very [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► often it's intercut with these but I [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► think even even with the limitations of [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► tech very beautiful poignant scenes of [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► you know ship space warping or you know [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► the wind blowing or sun setting so a lot [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► of the time I am charmed by the visuals [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► enough to not be bothered by the [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► somewhat stilted writer order to forgive [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► the you know the the blabbering of [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► lovesick teenagers being like this this [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► animation is really nice though that was [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► very clever that was very well done and [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► I have to but also just being impressed [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► that this one guy newly on his computer [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► did all this stuff and you know like it [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► as you know this because I know what [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► comes after as I see the promise like as [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► i see you know the these ideas and this [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► artistic sensibility and this way of [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► telling stories plus more experience [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► more time and a lot more money and I [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► don't have to imagine what that looks [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► like because we actually see it but [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► anyway and and I also think that the [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► story on this one it got times it [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► doesn't [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► is it more complete and conventional the [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► other one anyway this one definitely go [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► somewhere things happen there are [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► battles right yeah IDK what weird at the [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► end which is another thing that's kind [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► of typical of a lot of everything I've [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► seen so I just rolled with it [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► yeah there's that moment where the so [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► much for there's a moment where the [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► aliens kind of come on to her neck and [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► kind of attached and then she like blast [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► them away that I couldn't decide what [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► that meant and if that was an attack or [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► an attempt to connect or whether [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► everything that happens after that is a [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► dream because they've gotten her brain [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► or you know they just it was like my ok [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► that happened which does happen to me a [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► lot when I'm watching animes like all [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► right go with it roll with it [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► um but they do get they do get to the [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► light when she's on the planet [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► I in this serious system and there's [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► there's almost like a moment of like [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► she's like she's flying around she's [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► kind of looking at the at the at the the [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► sky and all of that and she's feeling [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► kind of nostalgic and it's almost like I [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► wish I could share this with you moment [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► that i thought was a pretty great bit of [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► visual or she wishes she could be back [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► in a convenience store and getting wet [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► terrain because that's like she's she's [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► on an alien planet and a giant Maxine [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► things and no human has ever seen before [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► and she just wants to to you know be [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► down at the corner store where we had to [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► run to get out of the rain that one time [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► I i think if i had a an issue with this [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► story it is that and you guys lived to [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► it which is it the room as an adult I [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► look at this and think in reality that [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► that boy has nine years where he's [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► gotten to text messages from her and I [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► felt like the absence of other people in [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► his life is the part that I thought and [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► i get i get the romantic aspect of this [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► and why they wanted to keep that but she [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► you know she's staying 15 not only has [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► he now nine years older than her but [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► he's lived nine years he's presumably [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► let's be serious here he had other [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► people in his life other relationships [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► you know with with just people in [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► general that he probably isn't like in a [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► room by himself for nine years and it [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► makes that way more messy and [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► complicated and and it not destroyed it [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► that they want to tell here which is [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► this is this special relationship that [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► will go on through time and space but it [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► in a way that five centimeters per [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► second doesn't do this movie keeps it [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► kind of idea like you know what they say [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► Jason near far wherever you are I know [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► your heart I something without a heart i [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► think i think they're actually telling [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► the story they want to tell here because [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► this this whole sure is is supposed to [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► be about that feeling you have when you [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► were this age that this first love is [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► going to be the only one and this one is [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► that's from her perspective it works for [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► me but I know not like I I understand [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► what you're saying that that is it seems [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► i really have the board with that but no [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► it is to the audience is trying to be an [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► audience feel that thing that they felt [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► and I think they get away with it mostly [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► because from from the boy's perspective [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► like all we get is when he's younger sis [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► I'm harden my heart and then we don't [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► have him mooning over 49 years we just [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► skip to the end essentially when he gets [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► the text messages and he shocked and I [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► can imagine him living his normal life [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► for those nine years doing all the [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► things you talked about we didn't get to [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► see that we weren't living that with him [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► we're still living her [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► yeah upset feelings on the planet and [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► you can also imagine him getting that [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► text message and being like oh I you [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► know like you bury it you push it down [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► you forget all about it you live your [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► life then it comes back in a second [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► because you just you know it's like he [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► by then he probably will have forgotten [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► that he was even gonna be getting this [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► text messages from those ratios and also [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► by the way they show that he's kind of [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► keeping up with the space thing because [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► you still kinda into that right now he's [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► gotta go gezina and stuff [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► the moving pictures the harry potter [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► picture yeah well and the cover of that [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► magazine essentially tells you the [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► result tells you the result of the final [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► battle that the use of you have not yet [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► seen which I thought was clever where [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► they tell you the other ships were [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► destroyed the only one [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► has just returned the one that she was [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► on like you you know that how that's [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► going to work out you don't know that [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► she's a pivotally involved in it but [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► he's keeping up with that you could say [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► skipping out that because it's like he's [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► holding a a flame for her but he could [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► just still be into space [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► he did cover a little bit because he [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► even says in his his out loud dialogue [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► that that he stuck to his guns and he [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► did leave his life without her and he's [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► got his military service that's about to [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► start so so I mean you get like tiny [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► little hints of the fact that he has [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► been living his life but I i do like the [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► fact that the the moment that he gets [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► his the text from her that he does [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► happen to be alone and we do get to [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► experience that sort of you know purity [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► of just having these two characters [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► interacting and no nobody else muddying [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► things up and get a lot of its gotta be [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► like budget like drawing more people is [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► harder getting more voice actors you [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► only have you and your girlfriend to do [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► the voices like it's this is a small a [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► small film and all the ways things have [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► to be small where and think about it for [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► for a short movie like this is a fairly [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► complicated involved high-concept type [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► of thing here with this a lot of plot [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► involving the entrance is not really [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► important to the story accepted as like [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► a contrast to the rest of the story and [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► you said towards the end we have to have [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► things progress we have to have them go [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► eight years away but we can't show you [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► like this is not an episodic thing where [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► we get to see to their you know [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► adventures and and separated by time to [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► list of you have to have to kind of [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► bring this to a big finish and the Big [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► Finish is also weird because it's so [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► widely separated by time because her big [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► finish is you know not that long after [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► the beginning of the movie and his is [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► many many years is you know after all [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► that has ended so we don't actually know [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► what happens to her in the eighth [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► obviously she doesn't come back to earth [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► because i think they wouldn't mention [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► that but she's she's dead out there with [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► the aliens you find and then the toxins [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► are totally typical and me we're not [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► gonna explain these aliens guess it's [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► supposed to be ambiguous you don't know [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► where they tryin to be friendly [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► are you know who is the bad guy or the [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► humans the bad guy or the alien is [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► totally not clear at all the horrors of [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► war the fact that she's killing because [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► she's been trained to kill [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► but is that has ambiguous feelings about [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► it has as all young teenagers who pilot [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► giant mechs do it sometime or another [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► here's so typical that's all straight up [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► the middle and exactly as expected and [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► it i don't know I I dogs is a lovely [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► mixture of like fanservice and known [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► means mixed in with other stuff that is [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► definitely weirder than those other [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► shows that are much more conventional in [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► the treatment of both the the teenage [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► love story and the aliens vs humans [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► battle this week's edition of the [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► uncomfortable is brought to you by like [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► splash that's like splash one word like [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► splash it is your one-stop app for a [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► whole bunch of different interest movies [TS]

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00:29:04 ◼   ► more they're all rolled together in one [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► beautiful app so instead of having a [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► whole bunch of different apps that [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► you're tapping from one to another and [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► swiping and finding in folders if you're [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► into movies restaurants books songs you [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► might end up with a whole collection of [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► apps in order to explore your interests [TS]

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00:29:21 ◼   ► favorite apps and services they're all [TS]

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00:29:25 ◼   ► all those different apps and it gets [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► better with a few taps you can also [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► explore collections of favorite movies [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► songs books snaps collections created by [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► your friends or other users who share [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► your interests like splash also offers [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► another interesting feature remember how [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► you just forget all about a TV show or [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► movie your friend recommended or maybe [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► it's an awesome new restaurant that just [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► opened up [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► it can happen a lot like specially to [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► bookmark those movie songs books and [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► apps anything you fancy it's organized [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► into categories and once again instantly [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► connected to your favorite apps and [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► services [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► it's like a very super version of [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► bookmarking so check it out like [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► splashes on the App Store you can click [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► the link in the show notes or go to [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► bit.ly/b i TTLY / get like splash that's [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► bitd ly /g tlik ESP la sh thank you like [TS]

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00:30:14 ◼   ► for sponsoring the incomparable well [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► let's move on to 5 centimeters per [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► second which we are told at the very [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► beginning is apparently the speed at [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► which cherry blossoms fall huh is [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► actually true do anything like that [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► don't fact-check I don't want to know [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► what that's going to say license that's [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► why they that's why it's apparently [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► called that this is going to be the [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► story of tono who we meet here in part [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► so three parts in this story part one is [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► called cherry blossom we learned that [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► the cherry blossoms following are [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► apparently if I centimeters per second [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► because that's totally the title of the [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► movie and we meet tono and his friend [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► akari and yes indeed this is a film that [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► has a very similar plot to the voices of [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► a distant star except way fewer aliens [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► and space max but the the boy and girl [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► who meet and become fast friends [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► early on in school and then are [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► separated just as they're reaching [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► adolescents is absolutely the same story [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► here except here it's just she moves [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► away and then and then I think he moves [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► away or he moves away and then she moves [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► away and so they're separated by [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► distance and they're separated by even [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► further distance later on and I and so [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► it's told in these in these three [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► segments and in the product that thing [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► that i found most impressive for our [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► most important in the cherry blossom [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► segment is we spend a whole lot of time [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► with without with tono on a train going [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► to see her it's been a year since they [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► said goodbye and and he wants to go see [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► her and he has to take a train to [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► another train to another train to [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► another train and there's snow and there [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► are delays and and the the movie takes [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► and it's only an hour long but we take a [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► long time to experience the nervousness [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► of not just of seeing her for the first [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► time in a year but the end and obviously [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► he's had a lot of time to think about [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► her because they were they were friends [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► before but they've been sending letters [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► and and he's been thinking about a lot [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► and now he's super nervous about the [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► whole thing and stressed about the trip [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► and their snow and there are delays and [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► keeps looking at his watch because he's [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► supposed to be there at seven and it [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► gets later and later our expressing his [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► is a passionate love for he's carrying [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► that with him too [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► yeah exactly and and so that that's the [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► thing that sticks with me from this part [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► is that is that time it's not all on the [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► train and we we see i should say because [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► it's important later that opening scene [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► they're crossing train tracks and the [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► cherry blossoms are coming down [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► phone that's also paired with the last [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► shot of the movie that comes much you [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► know comes at the end when it's much [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► later in their lives but I that train [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► stuff is going to stick with me for a [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► very long time the thing that blew me [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► away about this film in general in this [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► segment in particular is the almost you [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► know photorealism or hyper realism of [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► the scenery there are light effects [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► there's reflections on desks there's [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► wrote those reflections and on glass [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► there's rain dripping down that was [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► super realistic because that obviously [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► is computer-aided stuff there's a [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► flickering fluorescent light on the [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► train at one point which just blew me [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► away [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► yes PFI and yet it still feels like [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► anime because the characters are all [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► like anime looking you know looking like [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► their cell drawn they behave like [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► traditional anime but they are in this [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► world that is beautiful and like i said [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► i wrote down photorealistic and then I [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► changed it to kind of hyper realistic as [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► hyper as beyond it it's not it doesn't [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► always look real but it looks like more [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► there's some message like boards with [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► the information about where the trains [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► are coming that it's like I would love [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► real message boards to look like that [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► they don't all they do if they do in [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► Japan maybe they do these are super like [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► impressive [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► it's just amazing that look it looks [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► like a memory everything looks like a [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► memory because it glows and and and [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► between dimensions land of letters on [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► but it's so clear that everyone involved [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► in making this is obsessively dedicated [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► to the details like that first 129 T [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► cell phones those screens on the 90 cell [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► phones like so so dedicated to making a [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► realistic-looking screens [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► yeah that may or may not be exact copies [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► of actual products and all these like [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► it's the same thing that there was [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► attempted voices of a distant star [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► they're not exact because there's a mac [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► in this movie and there's no apple menu [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► there's just all the other menu so yeah [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► it's pretty it's pretty obsessive they [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► created the maggots kinda it's kinda [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► like when a perfect blue you know the [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► details are are like the keyboard like [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► that they sat down and then they had the [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► actual things and drew them but all the [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► stuff about is all different places i [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► think the wikipedia page has some shots [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► and voices it just started shows the [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► actual places in the animation so it's [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► almost as if it's rotoscoped just every [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► setting seen gadget in this is [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► so like this when somebody shot showing [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► pens and pencils and maps and lots and [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► lots and lots of shots of things things [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► and places and scenery and nature and [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► the sound of bugs in the summertime and [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► the hot Sun and every little item in the [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► room or the convenience store or [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► wherever it is you know the school and [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► and the desks and the erasers and and [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► all your notes in your mechanical pencil [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► i love that stuff because like I said [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► you'd normally anime we just have a [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► couple of scenes that and this is an [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► entire movie of it combined with like [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► you said the hyper-real that the world [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► there and it almost looks like an alien [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► planet at certain points it's like a [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► dream sequence was kind of an alien [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► planet but even the regular planets look [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► like does did the sky and the clouds [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► never look like that like they did when [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► you're in love and 11 I guess [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► alright and so this the whole movie is [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► his view through through that lens and [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► it is amazing looking and I really feel [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► like voices distant star was trying to [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► do this but the talent and money and [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► time are not yet they're here was like [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► six or seven years later is a you know [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► sort of a realization of the same vision [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► only cranked up to 11 [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► yeah I i watched voices of a distant [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► star in and then followed it immediately [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► with this so at the very beginning of [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► this um I i was a little bit bored [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► because I just felt like the beginning [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► of the cherry blossom part seemed kind [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► of interminable we had all of those [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► letters from a Kauri it was really just [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► mostly from her and I didn't feel [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► connected to her as a character at all [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► so I was kind of like oh boy what am I [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► in for for a whole hour of this because [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► I knew is longer and then when it [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► switched over to tonos train journey [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► everything changed that was that was [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► when i bought in for the same reasons [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► jason said like everything was real [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► around it I was like I could relate to [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► that tension i found myself just like [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► you know my my shoulders kind of [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► creeping up to around my ears going on a [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► journey like that you know being nervous [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► about it in the first place and then [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► having it be delayed and interrupted in [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► the frustration that brings and you know [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► John you always mention that the tiny [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► beautiful moments that that you love and [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► you're right this one was was completely [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► full of them but two of my favorites [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► were during the train journey I think [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► maybe my favorite moment of the whole [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► thing was when he's on the train and it [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► well before any of the delays start [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► happening it's still just the [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► nervousness of setting out to see her [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► and he reaches into his pocket for his [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► itinerary like he's gonna pull it out [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► for like the hundredth time and look at [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► it again and then he realizes he doesn't [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► need to look at it again he's seen it [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► enough times he's just doing it out of [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► nervous habit so he doesn't even pull it [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► all the way out he sort of talk sit back [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► and back and restrains himself and I i [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► have done that i have been there that [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► moment was just it was just pure gold [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► and then shortly after once it's snowing [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► there's this great shot of a close-up of [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► the inside of a train window where [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► you've got you know the moisture has [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► cooled on the inside of the window and [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► just around the edges you get like ice [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► where it's just iced up just around the [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► window pane and there's no people in it [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► you just see a tiny bit of outside and [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► mostly it's just ice it from the inside [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► of a window and it just it it cut [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► through to the heart of me it was great [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► and the details a lot of these shots [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► like that are extreme close-ups with [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► detail not only is the stuff you're [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► supposed to look at incredibly [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► interesting detail but there are often [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► like labels or even like on glass labels [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► that are on the outside so their labels [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► that are stuck on backward from our [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► perspective they're everywhere it's [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► fascinating it's just yeah all of that [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► and like like I said the flickering [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► fluorescent light killed me i also was [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► interested by the scene where he um he [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► at one point is very tired he takes his [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► watch off and set it on the table next [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► to him but that's after he's like that's [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► it forget it because i can't keep [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► looking at this watch I'm gonna forget [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► your watch if you leave it in the [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► training to do yeah you know those [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► details like there were so many almost [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► real-life logos you know like they [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► changed a letter or they changed like [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► starbucks mcdonalds they change a letter [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► or a little detail in the logo to make [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► it just slightly different and I really [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► really enjoyed that and the beginning of [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► it I think Eric I felt kind of part of [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► what you were feeling to where I was [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► like is this could be an hour of her [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► talking to him and letters and we just [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► kind of see what he's doing and I think [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► that kind of once i realized that wasn't [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► going to be the entire thing I felt a [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► lot better about it like exactly yeah [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► like a teenage girl pining after boys [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► you know that [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► I've done that I think this is something [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► I've experienced so I don't know that I [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► necessarily want to relive that and once [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► they got into you know actually telling [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► the story of the journey and and can it [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► interlacing their background and their [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► relationship i felt a lot better about [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► yeah actually the one point where i did [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► finally sort of not completely by into [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► akari as a character but when he gets to [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► the station and you know he's he's just [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► so tense and he's been waiting all this [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► time and then you find out that she has [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► to [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► she's just been sitting there all by [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► herself waiting for him to show up and [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► he gets there and he walks up to her and [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► when she realizes he's finally there [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► it's like she can't quite believe it she [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► just all she can do is clutch his coat [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► and cry like that moment totally [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► resonated because you know you're just [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► so overcome with emotion you have no [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► real way to let it out and she is not [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► quite comfortable enough with him in [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► person to embrace him or even look up [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► and meet his eyes she's so worn thin by [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► all this waiting all she can do is just [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► cling to the hem of his coat and cry [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► unto her shoes and oh my god I broke [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► down at that point I just lost it he's [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► four hours late for the record he was [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► supposed to be there at seven it's about [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► eleven-fifteen when you arrive you're a [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► person who likes to be on time don't [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► watch this movie oh yeah it was really [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► in addition to all the emotional turmoil [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► like like that but that doesn't feel the [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► same way about that the train being late [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► seem like they just do everything right [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► in that from myself from that from the [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► showing showing things that you know you [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► know the people who made this movie had [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► to have ridden trains during the winter [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► right you know show is like and and it [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► makes you when you recognize something [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► like that if they I've read and trains [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► limited to have also seen that for us [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► and I've also been on that train with [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► the Flickinger prickling for fluorescent [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► light and with a bunch of strangers or [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► maybe I'm alone in the car and that [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► feeling like that makes you believe all [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► the other things they show like I've [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► never been in a weird convenience store [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► in Japan but they have these little [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► drinks that are in boxes that have cows [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► in them or whatever [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► re coffee right yeah but but i totally [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► buy that is that must be just as real as [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► as the things that's all that they show [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► the train from the outside sitting still [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► attracts who hasn't been in the train [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► that's like why are we not moving yeah [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► like your head is better now you're in [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► the snow [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► you're in the middle of nowhere in the [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► dark the train has lights it's as [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► on the inside it's shining light [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► something outside everyone in the car is [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► silent and the train is not moving and [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► how long are you gonna sit there and all [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► the while you're thinking just like how [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► late am I like when that time passes [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► when he's supposed to have been there is [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► going away from even thinking through [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► his journey yeah she weighed in a [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► certain point is like please just [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► anything tonight yeah yeah yeah he's [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► surprised when he sees her [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► yeah I had this push all the buttons i'm [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► somebody likes to be on time I've been [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► on stressful journey is like this trains [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► and planes and things like that [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► I i flew from California to Michigan to [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► see my girlfriend in high school and it [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► was exactly like this exactly like the [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► stress of the whole thing with the [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► anticipation and then and then you know [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► to be late like this then he's got a [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► whole other layer of feelings that are [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► like disemboweling the anticipation [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► feelings and there was just kind of [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► amazing but they do settle down i have [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► to say when they get to they get to get [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► to this point and and they calm down a [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► little bit and they did they haven't [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► shut down they do they do shut down the [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► station but at this point they haven't [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► quite yet bullshit she brought food we [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► brought food to his next he eats what [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► appears to be a puffball of some sort [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► but he's very hungry so he eats it think [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► it's rice [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► yeah yeah rice balls you got some little [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► octopus or squid in there like I you [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► know the the fascination for for [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► Japanese people that probably looks like [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► us but us all exotic look at the cute [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► with their little sort of like a dog toy [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► or something like that it was very large [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► and fluffy [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► I ever mentioned that he lost his letter [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► halfway through this journey into is he [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► right as the journey gets worse and [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► worse the weather the wind blows the [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► letter out of his hand he's just you [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► know he's he's a broken person and he [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► totally doesn't expect to see he's like [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► walking into defeat to say i I'm so late [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► i'm just going to go and then I don't [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► even know what his plan was but he [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► didn't expect to see here there and [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► there she is an area this is where you [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► got the little heating stove with the [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► the the pan of water on top of it acting [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► is like a humidifier for the room they [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► got me because there's the scene at the [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► beginning right where she feeds him [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► she's like oh it's probably not very [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► good we get the impression that maybe [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► it's the first time she's tried to put a [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► meal together or at least you know for [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► someone special and then at the end we [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► you know would we get back to [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► heard they're like saying something [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► about her fiance and you know make sure [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► you cook for him and I was like oh did [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► they get back together and no yeah cuz I [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► thought that they were they were [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► harkening back to that early arduous [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► journey but yeah this is because they [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► don't spend a lot of time showing you [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► character spaces or any part of the [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► characters are also the most of the time [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► looking at objects and scenery you know [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► it's difficult the last sequence of this [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► movie is difficult to track on first [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► viewing of who the characters involved [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► are because they don't name them and the [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► characters don't have conversations [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► face-to-face with each other but yeah [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► that's why this and the other one [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► repeated viewings help just to keep [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► track of the plot and i think that's [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► that's kind of the fault of the movie to [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► know for not being more clear because [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► you really have to establish things like [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► that before you can play off of them [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► were just kind of a shame but it's also [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► unfortunately a something that's typical [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► of anime we're not gonna spend a lot of [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► time identifying characters and people [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► are going to tend to look the same [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► especially in this with have time to [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► draw the character spaces there just an [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► empty blank ya head with hair on them [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► because I not where you're supposed to [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► be looking at or they will play all that [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► well they were not draw the face and [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► then all of a sudden draw the face with [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► eyes and it's like you know that the [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► face comes into being but most of the [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► time most of time looking at snow and [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► trees and listening to insects murmur [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► and light reflected off little metal [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► things are just fine with me so they get [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► their shoot out of the station station [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► closed down no more trains and they go [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► to like a shed in a field [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► yep well first things first they have [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► their kiss under the tree that you had [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► an awesome tree [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► yeah that got me too i got a little [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► weepy that momentous well I always watch [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► anime and wonder where the parents are [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► like aren't your parents worried about [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► yeah I kind of get the feeling like so [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► his his trip he spent a lot of time also [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► like planning this trip is all these [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► little diagrams and and her little [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► diagrams like where he's going to be in [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► when he's got this all planned out if he [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► said it was the first time going to [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► speak train station by himself so I feel [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► like he's of the age where he's allowed [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► to go on this long trip and his parents [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► understand that he's doing this I don't [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► know maybe some more permissive culture [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► to allow your twelve-year-old to travel [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► across the country to see his a his [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► friend from way back what I mean I don't [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► get the feeling that disobeying the [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► parents get the feeling that [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► greater allowed to do it was the [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► nineties you know everything anything [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► flew the boat [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► although it's also key that this happens [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► before cellphones become pervasive [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► because I should have called cult you [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► know it's all gonna be a little late or [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► you should go home or whatever here they [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► have the habit of action businesses just [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► before everyone had so I had I had those [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► moments in this where it was just like [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► how if only they could call and say but [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► how you can't also he goes back the next [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► morning so i also had that thought of [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► like it was this his grand plan was like [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► look I can just take the train that will [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► take a while but i can go out there and [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► then we can see each other and then I'll [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► just come back in the morning and will [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► be like you know he's moving he's moving [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► like the next day always just let this [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► is the last minute maybe so but they [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► spend time together under the blanket [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► and they are talking they talk all night [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► which I thought was adorable because I [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► guess they're they're young enough that [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► i don't know you you go all that way to [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► and find the boyfriend-girlfriend [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► essentially they kiss and then they go [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► to a shack with a talk on a toggle night [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► well the high from that first kiss can [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► carry you through the rest of the whole [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► night it's not like they you know they [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► don't that better need anything else [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► there it's gonna take all night for them [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► to come down from the kiss and so just [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► snuggling in the blank I thought that [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► was appropriate for the age and although [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► I'm not quite sure they didn't die from [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► exposure but apparently a very warm [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► blanket [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► yeah and and the shack is super [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► insulated so they say goodbye and he [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► goes off on the on uh on the train in [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► the morning and I before we get to the [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► the other segments i want to say the [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► last so he has a voice over here where [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► he talks about sort of his regret saying [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► goodbye to her and knowing that he's [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► gonna move away and so they're going to [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► be even further away from each other [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► than they are already and he uh one of [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► the things he says like the last thing [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► he basically says is i wanted to protect [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► her and I wrote this down with a large [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► WTF next to it because i didn't like [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► this line at all because of whatever [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► represents it is a it that is the best [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► thing you can think when you're leaving [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► her is what you want to be as her [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► protector and save her from the world [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► that is just that [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► yeah that made me angry because that is [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► kind of a stupid and sexist and awful so [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► I was in it took me out of it [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► I had the same feeling but actually have [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► being that feeling sort of helped me buy [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► into the next section because I cared [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► about him less at that point huh well so [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► like we this too is multiple levels of [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► this one is the japan is not really not [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► really lagging i would say behind most [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► of the rest of the world in terms of [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► their view of women's role in society [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► and that is reflected in the Arthur they [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► produce so that's definitely one angle [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► on second angle is the twelve-year-old [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► boys growing up in that culture are very [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► susceptible to it and I bet that is what [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► he would be thinking that if this boy [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► this time in this place but it does not [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► make him a sympathetic character from an [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► adult perspective best you can do is [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► understand i remember when i was young [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► and a young and stupid boy would seem [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► too many stories that put the wrong [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► ideas into his head about the [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► relationship between men and women but I [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► started for me it comes off as if the [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► artist and the movie think that is the [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► deepest and most passionate important [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► feeling you can have about a woman yeah [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► and not playing it as if this boy [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► doesn't is dumb and doesn't know the [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► ways of the world yet because that is so [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► typical way of thinking of that which is [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► it's the man's job to protect her and [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► it's like he wasn't I want to spend time [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► with her i want to you know I want to [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► help her [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► I want to be her friend and and and you [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► know be with her it was I want to [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► protect her [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► that was his well as possessiveness yes [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► exactly and I and I'm you know it's [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► difficult to walk that line because I [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► really feel like it in any in no matter [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► how enlightened the age i think that is [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► a feeling that boys have right at that [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► age especially when they have these [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► girls they don't quite understand this [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► sort of protective possessive feeling [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► but you're supposed to grow out of it [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► and the movie the movie did not then we [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► didn't give a perspective on that didn't [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► give an adult perspective on it just let [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► us soak in the boy's perspective on it [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► definitely seemed like we were supposed [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► to find that as profound and and make us [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► come draw closer to to the main [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► character instead of farther away so [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► story to is called cosmonaut but there [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► will be no space robots I assure you in [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► story to cosmic you don't know was on [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► the rocket earlier we see it we see a [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► shot of birds in the sky we get more [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► birds in the sky here this is a [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► recurring motif in this which I which I [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► like and also these spectacular the sky [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► at night is full of spectacular space [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► things that you can actually see in the [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► sky at night and that's another [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► stylistic thing about this movie that i [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► thought was nice and also harken back to [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► the short that we watched tono is older [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► he has a there's a girl who is crushing [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► on him named sumida she did they they [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► are on a southern island in japan so [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► this is what how so his uh so-so ackari [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► moved to the north to where it's very [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► wintry and then Tony moves to the south [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► to us a southern island in Japan where [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► it's a more tropical weather and there's [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► a space launch facility so we see a [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► rocket or spaceship basically towed [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► across the train tracks very [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► specifically says it's being towed at [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► five kilometers an hour [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► not to be confused with five centimeters [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► per second but i noticed that did [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► another rate of speed with a 5 sumita is [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► she's totally crushing on him they uh [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► they ride their scooters around she is a [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► surfer because this is a this is a [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► tropical ocean community so there's some [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► stuff where she's surfing which is cool [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► he meanwhile she's surfing what is tono [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► doing he's writing messages on his phone [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► to nobody and then deleting them that's [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► what he does relaxation shooting arrows [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► to that was interesting too because you [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► know at the beginning I completely [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► thought that he was still emailing acai [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► and that they still had this thing going [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► on and you know [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► akari is the reason that that I had to [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► feel bad for poor will accommodate [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► samhita but no nope he's not he's not [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► hanging with her anymore even in [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► cyberspace he's just write messages to [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► himself [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► yeah deleting she's so central to the [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► story even though our are supposed two [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► main characters for stories still hear [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► the story is all about the girl and how [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► she's not just dealing with her feelings [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► for him although that is though just [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► like she's growing up he's trying to [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► figure out they have all a subplot with [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► the career counseling and her sister and [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► I don't know her sister supposed to be a [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► cautionary tale of like what could [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► happen if you don't get your life [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► together and her just deciding what kind [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► of person she's gonna be I really like [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► with her all the scenes of her dealing [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► with surfing she doesn't like [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► let's fill out her to her job form of [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► like where she wants to go or what she [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► wants to be she won't take it which is [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► funny just like the last student I [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► thought that she talked to her guidance [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► counselor about it but she does survive [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► really like I really liked her I thought [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► that she was a really interesting [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► character and and as at erica's point I [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► was not in a position to really liked oh [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► no at this point so I really did like [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► her and I identified with her kind of [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► hopelessly crushing on him yeah that's [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► why I actually i loved this second story [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► probably as much as that as the first [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► part because it's just hit I think maybe [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► it hit home for me even more than the [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► first one because as a youngster I had [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► so many deep passionate unrequited [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► crushes and i think i think i feel like [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► i had way more experience with [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► unrequited love than I did with any [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► actual like popular relationships hell [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► yes [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► oh yeah so this really works for me and [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► I felt like it it ended so accurately [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► because you know she's crushing on him [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► for this whole time and eventually she [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► know as she sort of it comes to the end [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► of this phase in her life and grows up a [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► little bit and learns to surf she [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► realizes that he has he's never even [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► really looked at her and and you know it [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► she just needs to to kind of give up on [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► it and i remember that i remember this [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► just there's a moment where you come to [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► the realization that you don't need to [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► talk to that boy anymore you you don't [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► need to have a friend talk to him for [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► you you don't need to pass him a note or [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► have you know somebody else tell you [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► that that he's not he's not into you [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► there's there's this painful and maybe [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► somehow exquisite moment when you [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► realize that he's just never going to [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► love you and he'll never even really [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► look at you and and that doesn't mean [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► that you stopped loving him and crushing [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► on him but it means you stop trying and [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► then you grieve because there's nothing [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► else to do and that shot of her just [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► curled up on her mattress was [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► transferred and the grouper have been [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► there sister and I think the nicest part [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► of this also is even even though we're [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► not that into tono from the end of the [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► last one that he's nice sorry I'm family [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► night he is your like and he's he's not [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► like he's not toying with her [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► he's not he's not mean to her and that's [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► why i love me such a bad boy sees mean [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► like he's not obsessed with other girls [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► he's just in his own and his home [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► slightly particular not particularly [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► healthy world again sending texts [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► themselves or email [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► to himself but he's always nice and he [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► and you get the feeling that he realizes [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► that she's eventually he catches her [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► like waiting up for him after like [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► archery practice or whatever he knows [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► she's doing it but his like it's he's [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► not he's not going home and thinking [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► about her or the fact that he was there [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► or anything like that he's not going to [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► make the move hehe like when he sees her [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► crying he says you know what's wrong and [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► she says no no but he's not gonna he's [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► not gonna take it any further right he's [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► not going to say oh I know what this is [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► about it's just he's never gonna do that [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► I i speaking of the the way that this is [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► a this crush is portrayed actually i [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► think that i really like they're a [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► couple of scenes in here one where [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► they're riding on their scooters and she [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► gets to her house and and parks her [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► scooter and then he drives off [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► she's got that she got a dog she's got [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► like a little puppy which is adorable [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► too and uh but what I really like is [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► that then he rides off because he's [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► further down the road so he rides off [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► and she stands there waving at him long [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► after he is not like looking at her or [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► anything but she keeps waving and I [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► thought that was adorable [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► because that is like she's really into [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► him and he's just zooming off but she's [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► like no I'm gonna wait if I was a dog my [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► tail be wagging and then two minutes [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► later she's waving them with mixer as [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► you're with her you're wagging tail [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► yeah then there's the scene where her [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► scooter breaks and he says now we'll [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► walk and they walk and then he leaves [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► her he leaves are there and the dog [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► comes out and he just walks down the [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► road again and again she's waving [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► goodbye goodbye as he as he walks down [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► the road because he's that's that that's [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► their relationship right there [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► you mention the fact that he's he's [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► always unfeelingly nice to her in which [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► is true but in a way it almost makes it [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► a little bit worse but she says it's why [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► didn't exactly it's not sure [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► please please stop it would be easier if [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► you were like mean to me or you or I saw [TS]