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+anime/review/your-name
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+:CreationDate: 2017-07-23 10:52:22
+:Id: anime/review/your-name
+:tags: - anime
+ - review
+:rating: 4.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/your-name
+
+Ah, the life of high school students in Japan. In her small country
+town, Mitsuha gets up, prepares breakfast for herself, her sister and
+grandmother, goes to school with her friends, and then carries on the
+centuries-old traditions at the her family's shrine. In Tokyo, Taki
+gets up, has a quick snack while his father goes to work, then goes to
+school with his friends, and after that works shifts at a
+restaurant. Nothing special, we've seen these scenes hundreds of
+times.
+
+Until Taki wakes up in a room he doesn't recognise, in the body of a
+girl…
+
+Until Mitsuha wakes up in a room she doesn't recognise, in the body of
+a boy…
+
+There's a long and mostly unsavoury tradition of body-swap stories,
+where the first thing people do when they realise what's happened is
+to explore their "new" body. Shinkai does not ignore that convention,
+but does not indulge in it either: a nod, a laugh, and it's obvious
+that the focus of this story is different.
+
+Mitsuha and Taki keep swapping bodies on random but frequent
+days. They have to learn to communicate and coordinate their lives, to
+not appear too out of it to their families and friends, even if
+they're never in the same place at the same time, and the memories of
+their "other lives" fade quickly like dreams.
+
+As if two young people learning about each other's lives and seeing
+the world through each other's eyes were not enough to build a great
+story on, Shinkai adds enough emotional depth and plot twists to
+affect even the most unfeeling audience. No, I'm not going to spoil
+the story for you: the buildup should really be experienced with all
+its surprises. I'm sure the film holds up to multiple viewings, but
+the first time is magical.
+
+Shinkai became justifiably famous back in 2002 with Voices of a
+Distant Star (ほしのこえ), and he's been getting better ever
+since. He's not only good at writing original, strongly emotional
+stories: he's also good at choosing great artists and musicians, and
+you can see the fruits of these skills in Your Name. The gorgeous
+backgrounds set the mood of each scene and ground it in the two very
+different environments of central Tokyo and rural Itomori. The
+powerful music by Radwimps conveys the strength of the characters'
+feelings and emotions. It all adds up to one of the most intense
+experiences I've ever had at a cinema.
+
+"Your Name" is the best Shinkai movie to date, and I think everyone
+should see it, especially those (like me) who were a bit soured to his
+movies after the maybe-too-slow "The Place Promised in Our Early Days"
+and "5 Centimeters per Second".