5 Centimeters per Second
world_god said: "Things in life simply happen when you are so focused on one thing, you forget another." But Takaki never forgot about Akari. Does that mean that she stopped talking to him? Exactly it didn't make sense, they constantly reminisced about each other but for some reason they were too lazy to communicate with each other? |
| Well atleast He meet up with Kanae in the End as started to Finally move on |
| hey people, I don't know if any of you is aware, but there's a manga and a novel of this movie, both way larger than the movie, and they explain a lot of things, one of them being the reason for them to stop writing letters to each other in chapter 2. I'll post here 2 pictures, fragments of the novel "5 centimeters per second: one more side", where takaki talks about the reasons for their mutual correspondence to come to and end soon after he moved to the island. hope this clears all your doubts, if you have any more questions about some part of the story that didn't get well explained in the movie, I will do my best to answer it. also, I really recommend reading the novel for better understanding, since this was not the only thing that got bad explained   |
jdpxpro said: hey people, I don't know if any of you is aware, but there's a manga and a novel of this movie, both way larger than the movie, and they explain a lot of things, one of them being the reason for them to stop writing letters to each other in chapter 2. I'll post here 2 pictures, fragments of the novel "5 centimeters per second: one more side", where takaki talks about the reasons for their mutual correspondence to come to and end soon after he moved to the island. hope this clears all your doubts, if you have any more questions about some part of the story that didn't get well explained in the movie, I will do my best to answer it. also, I really recommend reading the novel for better understanding, since this was not the only thing that got bad explained Thank you so much. This clears a lot of things! Also, thank you everyone else who replied in this topic. |
world_god said: Hello! I watched the whole movie and I don't understand why, in episode 2, Takaki stopped talking with Akari? Why the letters stopped? Why they didn't speak at the phone? Why they didn't keep in touch? Would you like to explain me? Thanks. What's your age? if you are in college, do you still talk to your school friends? (I mean some actual talk) especially to those who are far away from you. Personally I lost contact with various people who were once very close and good friends to me. That's what physical distance do over a period of time and that's the recurring theme of this movie "people get separated with the speed of 5 cm per second" |
  𝓜𝓪𝔂𝓫𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓼 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓶𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓴𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝔀𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 |
world_god said: Hello, Still have one question: why do you think Akari accepted the reality faster than Takaki? Why she wasn't like Takaki... why she didn't feel empty like Takaki? Because she the first to accept the truth (that it's impossible for them to be in a relationship) and move on. Actually if you watch the last episode carefully you will know Akari too had a letter that she never gave to Takaki that day, which actually was most probably a goodbye letter but she wasn't able to give that to him that day as she saw that Takaki was actually very serious about their relationship and she didn't want to disheartening him and thought he will eventually move on with time. |
| 𝓜𝓪𝔂𝓫𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓼 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓶𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓴𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝔀𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 |
world_god said: I managed to rewrite it all pretty fast so, nothing happened haha. So, ill just leave this recreated asnwer.Hello, Still have one question: why do you think Akari accepted the reality faster than Takaki? Why she wasn't like Takaki... why she didn't feel empty like Takaki? Well, that’s a complex question, and its been ages since the last time I read the whole book (the one form which I answered to your previous question). But anyways, ill do my best. (Most of the events I will talk about are from the novel, since the movie, again, doesn’t explain a thing). It is related to the differences in the ways they both took the separation thing and their views on the matter. When they kissed under that cherry three, they had a perfect, magical, and reveling moment. But with it, they both understood that they were probably never going to meet again. But then, ¿Where comes the difference in how they ended? First of all, the reason for Akari to not give him the letter she had written isn’t exactly to not hurt him, as the other person above me interpreted. It was, actually, for the same reason that takaki didn’t regret having lost his letter in the way there where he tells her he loves her. And this reason was, that the moment they shared under that three, same as their relationship and feelings for each other, was too perfect and magical to be put into words. The mere words “I love you” didn’t even begin to describe all the things than they fell for each other, and that made the letters they both wrote just a meaningless collection of words, a disgrace to that perfect moment and years together. As you might have noticed, this is what takaki is talking about on the pages I posted in my answer to your previous question, and its exactly the same for Akari. So, instead of giving him the letter, she tells him: “You are going to be ok from now on, takaki! I just know it!” And her reason to tell him that, is to return the favor hi once did for her, back in their early days. In her childhood, Akari was a really timid person. You see, this, again, even though is really important, wasn’t even shown for at least a second in the anime. When Akari was a child, her family used to move from town to town pretty often, which leaded to her having to change schools frequently. And the first time this happened to her, someone made fun of her because of her name (it was pretty uncommon outside of her original town), and this made her act more timid, which just made her a wider target for malice the next time she changed schools. You know, that its just how kids work, the weaker the person, the more they want to bother them. And that just made her act more and more timidly leading to more and more bullying and so on. It was so terrible that it reached a point where she wished to die before having to change schools again. Because of all this experiences, she grown as someone really traumatized, with a heavy fear for rejection and other, unable to even look at someone in the eyes. And this was about to start again on Tokyo the moment she froze on her feet after the teacher called out her name on the list and people started to talk bad about her when someone near her murmured “everything is going to be okay”. Those simple words were what her, without knowing, had been longing to hear forever. And it was enough to made her come back to her senses and rise her head, which saved her from being bothered by the rest, and even allowing her to make some friends at the end of the day. Sometime later, she learned on the library who the owner of the voice was, who was takaki, and that’s how they first met. And as they spoke, she noticed that they had a lot in common, since his family also used to move very often, but takaki wasn’t as affected as her because he had a more calculated approach to fitting in school, but still enough to comprehend her feelings. And this made her feel understood by someone for the first time ever. And that englobes what made their relationship so special to Akari. It allowed her, a self-deprecating person who was sure that would die unloved, to feel understood, to have someone who cared for her, someone to chase after her, that wouldn’t brush her hand aside, and to feel all that happiness and beautiful things that she had been private of. And all of that leads to that moment. She knew that the separation was going to be tough for them both, so, as she received those words when she needed them the most, now she was returning the favor to him, while, at the same time, she gave those words to herself. Even after those childhood days, even worse times came form her when she was forced to move to Iwafune for similar reasons, but when takaki did all the sacrifice to see her again, and they met, she got transformed. As she says, “I had been blessed”, and now, she wanted to pass that bless she received once again to takaki too. She had been depending on him for too long, and now, it was time to change that, it was time to be able to be strong on her own. “Takaki was gone. However, I stood there, confident that I could take on life. No matter how far he went, he was with me. He, at last, will always understand me perfectly, I have such a person- that thought alone was reassuring, and I could make it, even if I was on my own there. Oh, what to do with me… While I felt a deep sense of loss, I was strangely fulfilled. So, I told myself. We will meet again someday, though it won’t be soon, and ill try to be a stronger person by then”. As we can see, she took a very gratitude directed approach to their separation, and instead of being drawn by the desperation ending in a full of melancholy life, she thanks him for everything he gave her during those years, and takes the chance to change herself. Now, on the side of takaki, lets remember that he was also conscious of the fact that they would never meet again. But at that instant, the only thing he could think of was how powerless he felt, for the inability he had to change the events that leaded to their separations and his inability to protect her. And he kind of associate this inability to his weird, young age, which makes him wish at that moment to be an adult right away. And that single and simple but strong wish, is what ends up leading him to move across life nonstop, making him a machine that was only able to move foreward without stopping, in a long, long trip far beyond the limits of the universe. A solitary trip, that didn’t allow him to even breath and look at his present. It was so of a strong wish, that even when he had almost forgotten Akari completely (because yes, that eventually happens in act 2) and that trip became aimless, that feeling just didn’t vanish, that urge, that necessity, to just keep moving, stayed with him, separating him from his surroundings. It even reaches a point where every time his starting to get used to the island and be happy with his new life, he starts to feel bad again, because he sees that happiness as a betrayal. And more than a betrayal to Akari, a betrayal to his young self, to that strong wish, not only to protect her, but to protect that special feeling they used to share back then. At the end, that is the meaning of the title “cosmonaut”. The spaceship than appears multiple times during the act is nothing but a metaphor of him and his aimless, solitary trip towards the limits of the universe. And that way of being is the reason for Kanae to not telling him how she felt. At the end, he never really looked at her, or anything surrounding him in his life. And that’s it, that would be the explanation for them to end up so different once they get separated. It all has to do with that moment, on their final farewell, and that’s why than scene is so important. Finally, in the book where I got all of this from, at the end, there are the 2 cards they wrote back then and never gave to each other, including the one from Akari, which didn’t appear in the anime, so, its more special. I will post the pages containing them because they resemble quite well all I have talked here. Congrats for reaching the final, it took more than expected hahaha. Hope It clears out many things.   |
the pictures I said I would put didn't appear at the end so, I'll post them apart here.   |
jdpxpro said: world_god said: I managed to rewrite it all pretty fast so, nothing happened haha. So, ill just leave this recreated asnwer.Hello, Still have one question: why do you think Akari accepted the reality faster than Takaki? Why she wasn't like Takaki... why she didn't feel empty like Takaki? Well, that’s a complex question, and its been ages since the last time I read the whole book (the one form which I answered to your previous question). But anyways, ill do my best. (Most of the events I will talk about are from the novel, since the movie, again, doesn’t explain a thing). It is related to the differences in the ways they both took the separation thing and their views on the matter. When they kissed under that cherry three, they had a perfect, magical, and reveling moment. But with it, they both understood that they were probably never going to meet again. But then, ¿Where comes the difference in how they ended? First of all, the reason for Akari to not give him the letter she had written isn’t exactly to not hurt him, as the other person above me interpreted. It was, actually, for the same reason that takaki didn’t regret having lost his letter in the way there where he tells her he loves her. And this reason was, that the moment they shared under that three, same as their relationship and feelings for each other, was too perfect and magical to be put into words. The mere words “I love you” didn’t even begin to describe all the things than they fell for each other, and that made the letters they both wrote just a meaningless collection of words, a disgrace to that perfect moment and years together. As you might have noticed, this is what takaki is talking about on the pages I posted in my answer to your previous question, and its exactly the same for Akari. So, instead of giving him the letter, she tells him: “You are going to be ok from now on, takaki! I just know it!” And her reason to tell him that, is to return the favor hi once did for her, back in their early days. In her childhood, Akari was a really timid person. You see, this, again, even though is really important, wasn’t even shown for at least a second in the anime. When Akari was a child, her family used to move from town to town pretty often, which leaded to her having to change schools frequently. And the first time this happened to her, someone made fun of her because of her name (it was pretty uncommon outside of her original town), and this made her act more timid, which just made her a wider target for malice the next time she changed schools. You know, that its just how kids work, the weaker the person, the more they want to bother them. And that just made her act more and more timidly leading to more and more bullying and so on. It was so terrible that it reached a point where she wished to die before having to change schools again. Because of all this experiences, she grown as someone really traumatized, with a heavy fear for rejection and other, unable to even look at someone in the eyes. And this was about to start again on Tokyo the moment she froze on her feet after the teacher called out her name on the list and people started to talk bad about her when someone near her murmured “everything is going to be okay”. Those simple words were what her, without knowing, had been longing to hear forever. And it was enough to made her come back to her senses and rise her head, which saved her from being bothered by the rest, and even allowing her to make some friends at the end of the day. Sometime later, she learned on the library who the owner of the voice was, who was takaki, and that’s how they first met. And as they spoke, she noticed that they had a lot in common, since his family also used to move very often, but takaki wasn’t as affected as her because he had a more calculated approach to fitting in school, but still enough to comprehend her feelings. And this made her feel understood by someone for the first time ever. And that englobes what made their relationship so special to Akari. It allowed her, a self-deprecating person who was sure that would die unloved, to feel understood, to have someone who cared for her, someone to chase after her, that wouldn’t brush her hand aside, and to feel all that happiness and beautiful things that she had been private of. And all of that leads to that moment. She knew that the separation was going to be tough for them both, so, as she received those words when she needed them the most, now she was returning the favor to him, while, at the same time, she gave those words to herself. Even after those childhood days, even worse times came form her when she was forced to move to Iwafune for similar reasons, but when takaki did all the sacrifice to see her again, and they met, she got transformed. As she says, “I had been blessed”, and now, she wanted to pass that bless she received once again to takaki too. She had been depending on him for too long, and now, it was time to change that, it was time to be able to be strong on her own. “Takaki was gone. However, I stood there, confident that I could take on life. No matter how far he went, he was with me. He, at last, will always understand me perfectly, I have such a person- that thought alone was reassuring, and I could make it, even if I was on my own there. Oh, what to do with me… While I felt a deep sense of loss, I was strangely fulfilled. So, I told myself. We will meet again someday, though it won’t be soon, and ill try to be a stronger person by then”. As we can see, she took a very gratitude directed approach to their separation, and instead of being drawn by the desperation ending in a full of melancholy life, she thanks him for everything he gave her during those years, and takes the chance to change herself. Now, on the side of takaki, lets remember that he was also conscious of the fact that they would never meet again. But at that instant, the only thing he could think of was how powerless he felt, for the inability he had to change the events that leaded to their separations and his inability to protect her. And he kind of associate this inability to his weird, young age, which makes him wish at that moment to be an adult right away. And that single and simple but strong wish, is what ends up leading him to move across life nonstop, making him a machine that was only able to move foreward without stopping, in a long, long trip far beyond the limits of the universe. A solitary trip, that didn’t allow him to even breath and look at his present. It was so of a strong wish, that even when he had almost forgotten Akari completely (because yes, that eventually happens in act 2) and that trip became aimless, that feeling just didn’t vanish, that urge, that necessity, to just keep moving, stayed with him, separating him from his surroundings. It even reaches a point where every time his starting to get used to the island and be happy with his new life, he starts to feel bad again, because he sees that happiness as a betrayal. And more than a betrayal to Akari, a betrayal to his young self, to that strong wish, not only to protect her, but to protect that special feeling they used to share back then. At the end, that is the meaning of the title “cosmonaut”. The spaceship than appears multiple times during the act is nothing but a metaphor of him and his aimless, solitary trip towards the limits of the universe. And that way of being is the reason for Kanae to not telling him how she felt. At the end, he never really looked at her, or anything surrounding him in his life. And that’s it, that would be the explanation for them to end up so different once they get separated. It all has to do with that moment, on their final farewell, and that’s why than scene is so important. Finally, in the book where I got all of this from, at the end, there are the 2 cards they wrote back then and never gave to each other, including the one from Akari, which didn’t appear in the anime, so, its more special. I will post the pages containing them because they resemble quite well all I have talked here. Congrats for reaching the final, it took more than expected hahaha. Hope It clears out many things. Thanks a lot for your response. You definely loved this movie and I really appreciate that you shared your knowledge. |
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