Weathering with you

 

WEATHERING WITH YOU

- Nikita

For those who loved the anime movie Your Name, they will definitely fall for Weathering with you. Makoto Shinkai delivers another masterpiece with a simple teenage love story interlaced with fantasy.

It’s a love story ofa high-school runaway, Hadako, who heads to Tokyo to start over and an orphan, Hina who is doing anything she can to support herself and her brother so as to not get thrown into the system and get separated. Both of them meet in a chance encounter, offer each other kindness when it was least expected and henceforth started a domino effect of incidents through which they fall in love, amidst the backdrop of heavy rain, misery and catastrophe.

In the vast expanse of sky filled with angry clouds thundering, there’s a patch of clear sky, the sun beaming full of hope. Entranced by it, Hina enters the red torri gate, hands folded, praying and finds herself turned into a sunshine girl. Literally, a sunshine girl, who can change the weather. With the help of Hadako, she starts fulfilling the wishes of people who wants to replace the gloom of the vicious clouds and bask in the sunshine. Until she disappears.

The movie in its entirety is a visual delight, with the stunning musical score supporting and enhancing the unfolding of the story. All the characters are well thought out, even the side characters with their quirks and charms and their growth can be seen throughout the movie. Though it seems like this movie is just a sweet love story, Shinkai very artistically shows that it is more than that. He shows the suffocation of the youth in their very homes through Hadako, who in the initial scenes almost drown while running away from everything which was familiar to him. Hina shows us that while, maybe, everyone is suffering, and it might seem noble to shoulder everyone’s pain, one person just cannot be the sun for everyone’s sky.


‘Weathering with you’ shows that you might be the reason for everyone’s smiles and the toll that takes on you might go unnoticed by hundreds, but you will find one person who will see it. That one person will fight tooth and nail for you to not drown in that abyss. So, for me this movie is not about teenage love. It’s about hope.

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