Makoto Snowy, Makoto Makoto, christened at the beginning of the tenth. The director himself stubbornly unlocked this title: they say, the great Japanese storyteller in his works will probably see a lot of shortcomings, so no need. And obviously modest. Beautiful graphics and dramatic content "Your name" 2017, as well as the accumulated authority of Sinka, did their job – today the picture is the proud title of the cash register anime in history, collecting almost three hundred and sixty million dollars in the box office. Now a new work of the director has been released, "Weather child" , which was immediately nominated to Oscar.
Explore how similar and the creative handwriting of two Japanese masters differ for a long time, but in one a new picture of Sinkaya actually follows one of the main covenants of Miyazaki: adult ideas and global problems are cleverly hidden behind the fantastic adventures of young heroes. And much more relevant and pressing than before.
The high school student of the Hodek runs out of the house to start a new life in Tokyo. In a big city, a provincial boy put on the wanted list is not easy: he cannot even show his documents to potential employers, because then he will be sent back to his parents. In addition, Tokyo is not too friendly to the homeless this summer: heavy rains are drumming on the roofs without a break.
But during the break between his metropolitan misadventures, the walker meets young Khina. The girl has a supernatural gift: to disperse clouds and call the sun. For a short time and in a small territory, but even a couple of hours without a downpour is a real gift for citizens hungry for good weather. And for this gift, many are ready to give the amount that is quite enough for the savvy teenagers to live comfortably.
Khodak and Hin open their shamanic business, and he quickly goes uphill. A clear sky above their heads needs the brides on the day of the wedding, and the organizers of the festivals, and ordinary inhabitants who want to walk with children without umbrellas. Here are just naive teenagers forgot that there are no free miracles – and time to pay too soon.
At first, the walker even rejoices in the rain ..
… But a month later he understands why Tokyo residents missed the sun so much
"Weather Child" confirms that Sinkai found his niche: city tales, where the miraculous is adjacent to the ordinary. However, in the eyes of the romantic Makoto and the most ordinary things become wonderful. His streets of Tokyo, their easily recognizable attractions (like a crossroads to Sibuya) seem magical, even when heavenly fish brought in the puddles on the asphalt, brought by mystical rain. Here, on the roof of an ancient skyscraper with rusty stairs, a temple is waiting for a temple, which opens the path by the clouds, and a weather shaman may be an ordinary girl standing behind the cashier in McDonald's.
Probably, the magic of Snowy is easily believed precisely because it is intertwined with everyday life, well -known and recognized even for us details. Hina builds a lunch at a haste, stricting with scissors green onions for soup. Here the Hodek hangs on social networks, asking how to find a job or what to give a girl – and receives plain -like answers from trolls to a funny. And in the next scene, the heroes go to call the sun, grabbing the decorated umbrella as a props, and this seems as organic everyday ritual as a trip to a school or a store. Moreover, in a jewelry shop of the hero, Mitsuho meets from “Your Name”, and this unites the latest works by Sinky into one universe, where mysticism is an integral part of reality.
Those who watched the previous picture will find a lot of acquaintances in the "Weather Child". And it is not only about funny Easterns and familiar locations – the director actually builds a new job according to the formula of the previous. The same ratio of humor and drama, the same young heroes – one from the capital, the other from the province – the same evil magic that separates lovers right on the eve of recognition. And other branded elements are evident: trains, cats, sunsets … and, of course, an amazing sky.
In all works, the Snow's sky often distracts attention from everything that happens against his background, but then the director turned to the full. Now the clouds and rain are not just atmospheric scenery that emphasize or shake the mood of the stage, but the plot -forming element. Sinkai is happy to use the legitimate reason to show them more often – and the viewer is not averse to look once again how beautifully drops of water are broken on the screen or drawn clouds are parting so that the setting sun breaks through them.
With lighting Sinkai works as always great
In this case, there is no sensation of stagnation or self -reproach. The proven formula, which allowed “your name” to become the most box office anime in history, Sinkai embodies with other means and details, turns and shows a different line, as if in a kaleidoscope. It seems that the glasses inside are the same – and the picture comes out, with new curious accents. Although no less beautiful.
The “Weather Child” not only adds an action -packed and almost detective line to the chamber story of love, where criminal authorities, arrests and chases appear. If in “Your name” adults played passing, purely functional roles, then here Sinkai gives the older characters much more screen time. The director is clearly closely within the framework of teenage stories-and now Suga appears on the stage, a single father with his problems, far from magical adventure.
He writes about supernatural, but does not believe in him. He is looking for weather priestesses to sell articles about them to naive fools, but he only snorts with thoughts about shamanism. Suga would survive on a dubious salary and get a guardianship of his daughter … And also protect young idiots that are melting about mysticism, from prison or worse than worse.
Joint scenes of namesakes, Sugi and Hina will give many reasons for a smile
It is adult heroes in the last minutes that voiced various interpretations of the final, where a touching happy end is seasoned with a fair amount of bitterness. An ambiguous ending will be discussed for a long time, but one thing is clear: approaching the sixth ten, Sinkai remains faithful to herself. IN "5 centimeters per second" The heroes said goodbye to the first love to enter into adulthood. The “Weather Child” reflects this finale in the crooked mirror of rainwater, while broadcasting the same idea: no matter how much people want, the changes are inevitable-and in order for a new era, something from the old should be a thing of the past.
“Weather Child” is not just a fairy tale about first love, not an escapist's imagination, divorced from reality. This is an eco-activist appeal, showing relevant problems through allegories and a vivid picture-in a word, all that good fantasy is usually loved by … and fairy tales. After all, global warming, which will burden entire cities and countries under water, is no longer a ghostly threat, but quite real. How realistic gloomy scenery will be, among which Sinkai ends his story, depends on us.
Well, spectators who do not want and will not look for a double bottom will receive an excellent fantastic melodrama: touching, beautiful, with a good balance of humor and pathos, adult and teenage. It is not the fact that the "weather" of the Oscars will be awarded, but the well -deserved love of the audience around the world is almost guaranteed to him.