Asklemmy

君の名は。 (your name.). There’s so much to it. The one that comes to mind now is how humbled the writer (Shinkai) was by the west’s reception of his previous film that he insisted upon the soundtrack being done by a band with a bilingual singer, so if you watch the English dub, the music is also in English. I don’t, but I love that detail. (I prefer the Japanese dub with no subtitles, followed closely by the Japanese dub with some really excellent fan subs.) I’ve seen it enough that I no longer need the dialogue translated to fully appreciate it. I know what they’re talking about.

I also love how the trailer doesn’t tell you shit about what it’s about. The trailer is happy letting you think it’s a romantic comedy about teens body swapping. There’s a hard right turn about halfway through that changes the whole thing. And while the whole thing is beautiful and there are some great scenes before that point, that’s where the movie really begins. There’s a line in one of the songs that says “everything before now is prologue.” And that’s true. There’s the story and there’s a bunch of stuff that just sets it up, and the trailer only covers the latter.

Then there’s the multiple timelines…