When I was little, I used to be very intrigued by the possibility of time travel. From my naivety, I wondered if the version of myself in the future, the one that would have already gone through all the bad and good moments that awaited me, would decide to return to the past to affirm that everything that I did not know at the time, worked out. This same intrigue that went beyond my own perception of time, innocent and curious about the unknown, was what I felt when I saw the movie I chose for this week's edition, “Your name”.
A fantasy, a dream that seems to have no end, that surrounds us from the moment the film opens the doors to the lives of the two teenagers from different worlds who, without knowing it, have already crossed their paths. This is the story of Taki, a passionate, creative and dreamy young man living in Tokyo; and Mitsuha, also a teenager, very perceptive, whose simple life takes place in a small coastal town in Japan. Two strangers, completely different and estranged from each other, who one night, suddenly and inexplicably, change their lives, in the morningh waking up in the body of the other. The next day, confused, they wake up in their own bodies, however, this inexplicable event continues to happen causing little by little each one of them to enter, for a short moment, in someone else's life. They adjust to the life of the other, in a strange way understood only by them.
However, at the moment in which the intimacy that they already share, crosses the distance between them, the story takes an unexpected turn. When both understand that this intimacy can only exist between them, that they will inexplicably only have it with each other, time shows them that there is something beyond the change of lives that they had never contemplated. Time, the only adversary in their history, shows them that this indescribable bond that they share is not in the same space. Mitsuha looked for Taki, but when he saw her eyes he didn't recognized her. Taki followed in Mitsuha's footsteps, but when he reached the small town in wich she grew up, it was nothing but ruins and dust. The exchange of lives was never linear: While Mitsuha traveled to the future, by immersing herself in Taki's life, Taki traveled to the past. It is at that moment that he latter understands that time is a much broader concept than what we know, that it crosses spaces, worlds, lives; and that's when he decides to untangle that knot.
When we wake up from a dream, the timeline that was clear for a few minutes in the world created by our unconscious, becomes blurred. In the memory of both there are jumps, turns, everything becomes a great knot of memories that little by little they are losing, entangling, forgetting; until reduced to vague sensations. Just like that precise moment in which we realize that we have already forgotten all the images that accompanied us at night, Taki and Mitsuha are only left with the nostalgic feeling that something happened in them, without remembering precisely what.
Perhaps time travel is possible, perhaps it is not. But witnessing the love story that grows between two characters from different years, intrigued me as much as thinking about that version of myself that would come from the future to give me signs that everything would be fine.
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One of the best time travel animations I've ever seen.
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I said the same thing! I watched it months ago, and I still can't shake the nostalgic feeling of the ending when I think about it. A true masterpiece.