Was there any point to this movie other than pretty visuals? Did the MC go on to kill himself and end his shitty...

Was there any point to this movie other than pretty visuals? Did the MC go on to kill himself and end his shitty, depressing life?

Read the manga. No, seriously.

What happens in the mango? Do the two main characters actually meet each other? I felt pretty mad at Takaki for not going after Kanae. I

He didn't want Kanae anymore. That's the point. He spent his whole life wanting her, and in that moment, realized the train was like time passing, and seeing Kanae walk away made him figure out that he was over her.

There's a reason why the girl in the poster is Kanae and not Akari.

In the manga, a few years have passed since the train scene from the movie, and Kanae goes to Tokio searching for Takaki. It ends when she finds him sitting alone on a bench in some park and then both looking at each other.

Well that completely ruins the movie ending

Did you see a different movie or something? You're talking about Akari, not Kanae. Kanae is the surf girl from Tanegashima.

Well shit. I retract my points then.

Man, fuck Shinkai and his open & never-clarifying endings. Even in the manga he couldn't be able to redeem himself.

No he marries her in spite on the countless dicks, lesbo flings, abortions and c-sections she had after 8 years.

No, it's about moving on, accepting loss and not letting nostalgia consume you. If you can't get that from the movie, I don't know what to say. You're denser than that MC from Kampfer.

Then he proceeds to change his mind, and make Kimi no Na Wa.

Interestingly about the manga, it was released in 2011. Which, according to Shinkai, was when the Earthquake made him re-assess his philosophy, and started working on Kimi no Na Wa.

So in that case, you can see what he's getting at in the manga. His attitude is tempering. Kanae is shown to be successful and well-adjusted, but still unfulfilled and clinging to the past. But here, it's rewarded, because she chases it earnestly and while also being a decent human being - unlike Takaki, who doesn't actually chase his goal and only lets his memory impede him.

Considering that, and the entirety of KNNW, I think his thoughts about loss nowadays can be summed as

"Don't accept defeat, and chase after your dreams. If you care about something, don't let fear hold you back. But don't let that pursuit consume you either, and don't wallow in self-pity without trying."

Which is a pretty well thought out ideal, in my opinion.

So he's aiming for happier endings now? That's good & nice for him but they're still being open and unclarifying. What I want is proper closure in any of his next stories.

The point? No matter how many hanfuls of sand you throw at that hole inside you, it will spread like a vast swamp. You will feel empty, forever. Accept it.

The point is that you're sad now. Don't you feel it? Relish it. It's almost like a real emotion. It will pass in an hour.

Shinkai movies, especially 5cm, is about real people who live like real people, even if the situation isn't real. There is no closure in real life. Things don't begin or end cleanly. Thoughts and feelings shift from one mode to another very slowly, and often painfully, and yet somehow without you noticing it. It's why heartbreak is so often compared to an open wound that slowly becomes a scar over time.

What you want is the formulaic Hollywood experience, to which all I can say is fuck off you fagmotron.

No, I want to see how did the relationship between Taki and Mitsuha end. Married? kids? divorced?
Fuck you, nigger, you don't know me

Well if they have kids you'd want to know what happens to them. If they split up you'd want to know what happens after that. You gotta end it somewhere.

The main point is about moving on from years worth of obsessing over the idea of her.

Not him but this is what I wanted when the original E7 ended. I'm never gonna make that mistake again.

It literally doesn't matter what happens between them

>Watch the movie earlier this year, managed to avoid spoilers for a decade
>End of the first act gives me a heartwarming feeling
>End of the movie basically crushes all that and leaves me in despair for 2-3 days
I know it's a Taiwanese claymation movie and i sound like a massive fag for being so invested in it, but i just wanted them to be happy together.

>5cm- bittersweet/sad ending
>Garden- neutral ending, nothing happens
>KnNW- happy ending

Shinkai really had a change of heart

It's good that he's trying different things but knnw was so generic that the only reason I didn't outright dislike it is because I could compare how different it was from his other films.

If he really wants to write happier stories from now on he has to work for it and avoid convenient deus ex machina.

Same shit happened to me. I think there's something about Akari that makes us mourn her loss. She's less a person and more an idea. It made me feel like I'd been stuck in one of the five stages of grief, and 5cm made me move past and mourn properly, for whatever the fuck it was I felt I lost. Sure wasn't an actual person.

Kinda want someone to help me make sense of this, honestly. The pain is fading away, but I don't like it. I don't want to grow apathetic again.

>Was there any point to this movie other than pretty visuals?
Feels.