5 Centimeters per Second

This movie clearly shows the impact that first love has. You never really get over it...
i actually liked the ending for this movie.i think the train is a symbol for the distance between them. it parted them in their teenage and now that they've grown up. its so sad though. but in the end, they couldnt even see each other. the train blocked their view of each other.all in all the ending was very strong and sad. i would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with a interest of drama and romance.

5 centimeters per second, the time when cherry blossoms. This Movie is about Takaki Tohno and his childhood love Akari Shinohara whom tells the story of how beautiful there pure and innocent there love is from childhood to bad circumstances that drifts them away from each other. The story speaks in point of view Takaki Tohno, whom fights events and time then ultimately himself to keep his love Akari Shinohara at bay. Will he finally meet Akari Shinohara again? Will he enjoy life with his first love? The story holds all secrets.

Plot:
From the beginning of the story, the story slowly unveils in such a eloquent way, since Shinkai manages to tell the audience enough to understand the relations with both Takaki and Akari that start to care about their happiness. Then the plots starts moving a bit quicker coming to the second set of the movie where Takaki meets Kanae Sumida and how there relations starts and ends. The 2nd plot mainly focuses on Kanae in order to give a perspective of what people see of Takaki but importantly her love for him. The last ends in great art, but will only say that the sequence played perfectly in able to show the last section and end it with good feeling.

Music:
The music is every bit important to storyline and the animation, as the music played the ambience and tone of which are emotions contain. When a great thing happens, the beautiful played of TENMON in piano starts which the audience feels a great deal happiness. Every action and event from the first section is placed perfectly. The music of One more time, One more chance is the best picked song that suited with this movie, I can't say where it will be played but where it was set made the movie perfect since with it's lyrics and tone of the song was the movie needed.

Characters:
There's only two main characters in the movie but not in the book, in the movie it focused on Takaki Tohno and Akira Sunohara, the character development was at it's best since we saw them grow as a person and as individuals, for a 1 hour set the development was at 5 centimeter per second. The Character interaction is worth nothing as every facial expression can be seen from each scene whether they are angry or sad, they gave the characters life.

Art:
The Art is superb, seeing how real and beautiful the areas where the stories take place. Truth be told, that each place that is drawn is an actual place around Japan, As the Shinkai did a great job taking and drawing the right scenes to play adding how real they look even the desk that Takaki goes to school was very accurate. The Character drawings isn't worth noting other then that they will cleanly drawn and colored to the exact shadows and folds of the clothing.


Conclusion:
5 centimeters per second is worth a watch for all audience as everyone will enjoy a masterpiece that Makoto Shinkai has made though romance genre will truly love this movie. It is worth to own on DVD and as the movie is masterpiece which won't get boring watching all over again. As Shinkai description of the movie " it's the distance between the souls of Two people.and the speed at which they meet one another".

Originally, a friend of mine kept pushing me to watch this movie. He would always get angry with me when I told him that I still hadn't watched it, because I couldn't find a direct download with subtitles, or any download of it. Since I'm practically blind and am too lazy to wear my contacts, I had waited a while to watch it. Finally, I caved, and searched it on YouTube. I'm thankful I did, because this movie took my breath away. It was almost like when I watch Miyazaki films. I'm so captivated by the story, always allowing myself to become wrapped into the story. I was very happy with 5 Centimeters Per Second, especially the ending. It's refreshing to have an ending that doesn't consist of "happily ever after". I love, love, love this about the movie. When I saw the opening scenery, I was blown away. The detail put into the artwork is just amazing, combined with gorgeous music and a heartbreaking, touching story that most of us can relate to. This movie is nothing short of fantastic, and I recommend it to any anime fan, whether they're mecca, action, drama, shoujo, yaoi, yuri, hentai, or whatever else fans, everyone should watch this. I also recommend a box of tissues.

5 Centimeters Per Second was the kind of small drama I would watch everyday. The animation was very beautiful and flawless. It seemed so real. The music was wonderful and fit very well into the whole drama. I like the character in the second episode(I forgot her name) she was very innocent and i felt sorry for her.
I guess the only thing that i wasn't so fond of, was how the two of them distanced themselves from each other. It was sad but i couldn't quite understand it.
Overall i thought it was excellent!!

When the ending montage started in, I was a little confused. All I could think was, that's it it?! But as I watched the montage, I realized that the song and the montage told the rest of the story & filled in the gaps. Takaki & Akari grew apart with time but while Akari moved on with her life, Takaki never did. It's really sad watching it and the realization that Takaki comes to that leds to his quiting his job. I'd like to believe that Akari and Takaki a crossing at the train crossing while the cherry blossoms were falling was a turning point for him. Even though it's shown at a different point in the story line vs the montage (ending sceene), since he smiles and walks away, I think he's come to the realization it's time to move on.

This was one of the most romantic, yet saddest movie I have watched during this event and month.

It starts out all childish and pure, and still yet pure as we move along their lives.
The first person narrative connects really well, and we can truly see Tono's pain throughout.

The stories were short, but they had such an impact. It felt like I was being hit by a baseball like force.

Short intervals in music made me much happier, since I loved the soft piano sounds, and it was also timed perfectly in my opinion.

The story itself was worth crying for.



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