Comments on: Byousoku 5 Centimeters Review (Part 1)

By: Leefe

Leefe — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:34:42 +0000

@Marco Milone: Albeit being dramatised quite a lot ^^

By: Marco Milone

Marco Milone — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:41:54 +0000

Byousoku 5 Centimeter attempts to present the real world from a different perspective.

By: Leefe

Leefe — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:39:17 +0000

@Zen: Well there isn’t much of a correct analysis for a show as such, but rather just what I perceived as you mentioned. I didn’t say that they sucked at handling the pain of separation, but rather they chose to separate that way to avoid more pain. But I do agree on what you did say about them forcing themselves to acknowledge that there would always be that distance between them. It could have been otherwise, or perhaps other factors, we’ll never know. Makoto Shinkai presented to us a film about distances but didn’t go really deep into why. Well tastes could differ, as much as I do like this film, I find it a little disappointing for it had not gone deeper into why there had to be the distance.

In Chapter 1, it’s all about their reunion after a long time, and the promise that held them steadfast. The part on separation has to be inferred from the scene at the train station when Takaaki was leaving, and from what you could gather about his transfer to a farther place. It’s the other 2 chapters, especially the 3rd, which tells one of the distance that grew with each passing year.
It isn’t really crappy bits of psychology you know. A bit of insightful ‘analysis’ was there, despite the fact I do know sometimes you don’t understand anime characters and their developments xD

Reviews of Chapter 2 and 3 would be only coming in end of this week because I’ve got a cold, a deadline for a competition, and some school mixed in together. That doesn’t really offer much spare time for me; I don’t wanna do the reviews drugged. Guess when things clear for me, I’d have the review by Saturday. No promise there though, I wouldn’t want to write an half-assed review for the sake of writing one.

p.s. The competition is an illustration competition held by FM Comics. Would be posting the one I’ll be sending in. Deadline’s 7th and I’m barely done. orz

By: Zen

Zen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:01:10 +0000

You forgot to mention the invasion of the birds! How could you?! That was the main point of the film! XD

I found the discerning fact that both the guy kid and the chick didn’t have to go home at all rather disturbing. Most parents would be thoroughly freaked out if their child went to meet someone from the opposite sex and didn’t return for the night. Did their parents not care? Did these 2 perhaps have some troubling family background? Was it why they hated to leave each other, because each felt abit suicidal about returning back home? Maybe this whole thing was about parental abuse! XD

Haha psychological analysis would probably take this a different direction from your perceived one. They could have continued writing to each other, continued in touch, and remained friends. The feeling of lost love can fade with time. By forcing themselves not to acknowledge each other, they created an artificial rift in their own minds, what is termed ‘mental pressure points’, where when they think of each other, the associated terms are not ones of mild melancholy over losing each other gradually but of forcefully hurt images of having to render themselves apart. That duzzan mean they suck at handling the pain of having to be apart but it sure does speak volumes about how they chose the path of holding back too much till they ended up hurting themselves. Or at least, the guy kid did.

Eh wait, I juz wrote this wayy into chapter 2 and 3 huh? Chapter 1 only showed them leaving lol. 2am! Its an evil time to diss film animation characters with crappy bits of psychology that interests no one! XD Well you did ask me to comment lolers