Not too long ago, my friend introduced me to a short Animated Movie named 5 Centimetres per second (5cm/s). Initially when I first tried to watch it, I was like wondering how in the world did the crew manage to stay up night after night to work on this? They’ll probably be bored to death.
However just a few days back, I tried watching it again. This time my views have changed totally. This movie indeed deserves to win many awards in Japan. The graphics was breathtaking, together with the complementing sound effects and coupled with the scenery that depicts the mood of the film, one could feel totally immersed into the film as if you were main characters Takkaki or Akari.
Have you ever wondered whether distance can cause relationships and friendships to end? I have always thought about this and have yet to come up with a satisfying answer. However after watching this animation, it made my thoughts venture further. This show isn’t like any other fairytales, it depicts reality and you’ll feel really fuzzy after watching it.
I tried downloading the blue-ray version of this movie. And hell were the comments right. If god created blue-ray for a reason it’s for 5cm/s. Unfortunately after downloading it I was super disappointed because there were no subtitles. But then ... after searching online for a streamed version I finally managed to get hold of one that is complete and sub blue ray version. I highly recommend this show to everyone, here is the link (http://video.aol.com/video-detail/5-centimeters-per-second-english-sub/2824570425).
If your thinking about a great timing to watch it, watch it at night when it’s raining or in an air-conditioned room. You’ll feel totally whacked or rather hollow.
This leads me to one of my ideas as usual. RP should expand the influence of the movie watching IG. I bet no one knew it existed. Basically I heard about it during year 1 that the main idea was that they watched movie together and write reviews to share their thoughts. This is like Sugoi!, if this IG existed for a reason, I bet it’s for me to join. But it’s already year 3 ... oh well I could always do this with my close friends.
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