"Weathering With You"
Feb. 11th, 2020 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday we saw the latest film by Shinkai Makoto, who also did Your Name and Children Who Chase Lost Voices (as well as a few others we haven't seen). He does beautiful, beautiful work - his films are a lot like Miyazaki's but slightly darker, for a more mature audience. That is, I'd recommend them to families with pre-teens but not smaller children.
This one's about climate change and Tokyo's urban landscapes, with an element of Shinto mythology. The plot ends up echoing that from Your Name, but I didn't mind.
Oh, and there was one thing about the movie that impressed me tremendously. There are a few times where the perspective swirls through the clouds, or up a rather rickety-looking spiral staircase, and Shinkai managed to do that without making me the least motion-sick. Considering I get motion-sick from scrolling on a tablet or sitting at a traffic light facing a busy street, that's saying something.
This one's about climate change and Tokyo's urban landscapes, with an element of Shinto mythology. The plot ends up echoing that from Your Name, but I didn't mind.
Oh, and there was one thing about the movie that impressed me tremendously. There are a few times where the perspective swirls through the clouds, or up a rather rickety-looking spiral staircase, and Shinkai managed to do that without making me the least motion-sick. Considering I get motion-sick from scrolling on a tablet or sitting at a traffic light facing a busy street, that's saying something.