"5 centimetres per second" : a Movie Review

My good friend Jannat, who is officially my movie provider, gave me a movie called “5 centimetres per second” by Makoto Shinkai (everyone says he’s the new Hayao Miyazaki). The title may not sound like much, but I assure it’s a movie worth watching. It’s a bittersweet movie about life, fate, true love (not crappy romance) and it’s so stuffed with meaningfulness I was choking on it. This anime film has the most heart-wrenchingly beautiful animation and plotline I’ve ever seen, and probably will see. I can’t really explain the storyline, because it’s so slow-paced (you have to have patience to watch this movie), but here we go:

Episode 1:
There's this guy named Tataki and a girl named Akari and they are best friends in primary school. But then Akari has to move schools, and they both start sending letters in following year. Finally after a year, they meet again. But they cannot be together forever as they want to be.
Episode 2:
Now Tataki has moved schools to an island on the coast of Japan. A girl named Sumida loves him, but can never tell him how she feels because he is always “looking somewhere beyond me”. It seems that Tataki cannot forget about Akari.
Episode 3:
Now Tataki is older, working. His heart still yearns for what can never be his, but finally one day, he realises, that he has to move on after a brief encounter with a married Akari. Then there’s a nice music video, which is really good, but the guy who sings it is just werid.

After I watched “5 cms per second”, I felt funny for days. It just gives you a feeling, which I simply cannot explain. And I’m sure if you watch it properly, you will too.

Heres how to watch it properly:

1. Watch it in a very quiet place with quiet friends or relatives, who do not make childish comments in between the movie or will say “Boring”. It just wrecks the whole mood.
2. Watch it without any snacks or loud crunchy thingos. As I said any unnecessary sound will wreck the whole setting.
3. Watch in one whole go, just stopping in between the episodes. Do not fast forward a single bit, especially the end.
4. I’m not exactly sure if its in English now, but it has subtitles to it, so you better read meaningful things pretty fast.

So if you want to relax with unforgettably brilliant, beautifully presented scenery of a masterpiece, “5 cms per second” is definitely the movie for you.

Warning: This movie is DEFINITELY NOT for action lovers. only because its so extraordinary.

its so extraordinary in fact i even made a poem about it:


 A sunlit moon
A breeze on the flower field
cherry blossoms
Floating down like snow
at 5 cms per second
Life is like surf
Nothing, growing, crashing
A bullet train passes by
A bin filled with unfinished letters
A fair taint upon the heart
To behold the impossible
Words we'll never say
Text messages we'll never send
Look beyound the forever sun
See beyond the objective life
The only feeling left behind
is something which cannot
be explained


- RMG taz

btw, i did the picture with screen shots and i blended them all togther. nice isnt it?