![]() Takaki’s girlfriend has enough dialogue to make the dissolution of their relationship mean something-and we actually bear witness to that dissolution. Her sense for a story that either was only hinted at in the source or even didn’t exist at all is robust. Seike takes Shinkai’s rather terse script and expands on it… expansively. Kind of like comparing James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans with Michael Mann’s. In truth, while sharing a foundation, the two are very different literary artifacts. Because as good as Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters is (and it is good), Seike’s 5 Centimeters is better. Yukiko Seike’s adaptation acquits itself on all points. And then, lastly, I wasn’t sure I was in the mood to watch people engage in romantic suffering. Part of the power of Shinkai’s film comes from its staccato barrage of imagery, something impossible to adequately simulate in comics. Beyond the fact that adaptations from other mediums into comics rarely fair that well, any adaptation of Shinkai’s film would have to navigate his reliance upon scene-to-scene and aspect-to-aspect cut. When I saw that Vertical had released an adaptation of the film, I was initially skeptical. ![]() Kind of like me and Grave of the Fireflies. My wife thought it was a good film that she never really wants to see again. It’s good and powerful and most viewers I hear from don’t actually like the movie. His film charts a love’s gradual evolution into void through three segments. For all its awkwardness, for its sliver of a resolution, for its refusal to offer satisfaction-for all of that, I appreciated Shinkai for telling a story I could believe in. My emotions overcame my reason-which only would have mattered if I knew what I was doing.įor this reason, me being part of the broken human race and being smart and being stupid and being filled with love and distrust and kindness and anger-for this reason, watching Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters per Second was a resonating experience. I hurt people and was hurt by other people. And in those decades when I was trying to figure it out-trying to make friends and find love-I screwed things up often, badly, and often badly. While I personally have at last settled into a comfortable kind of success on the interpersonal front, it took a while. Which is, of course, funny when one considers just how naturally social we are, as a people. And when you add to that the volatile mix of emotions and hormones, it becomes flatly miraculous that any of us can lay claim to even a modicum of success when it comes to Being Around People. And everything that attempts to mark out the boundaries and admonish a sort of Best Practice approach to the world of humanity is just some arrogant SOB’s shot in the dark based off what worked for her or him. We conversed by typing our messages on the app lolĪs you can see, karamihan dito for my safety since babae ako tapos mahilig ako mag international DIY travel.Human interaction, this whole member of society thing, is hard. The security guard couldn't speak English so nagpapanic na ako, tapos naalala ko yung app. Saved my ass one time na dumating ako sa rented airbnb room ko tapos naka lock na yung building (3am). not physical but I also download Google translate, super useful especially if I have to talk about something important with a local who can't speak English. ![]() masking tape, to cover door peepholes and anything suspicious At least I have a piece of paper I can quickly pass over to someone in case of a really bad situation. Wag naman sana diba but I've heard of stories about solo travelers being targeted by people with bad intentions. piece of paper with my hostel/hotel/airbnb address and my emergency contact's phone number and email address. Naexperience ko na tamaan ng allergies sa ibang bansa, it's always good to have one handy a couple of antihistamine, paracetamol, and loperamide tablets, especially international solo travel. I don't dislike them, but I also don't go out of my way to watch those videos.Īnyway, here are some 'unusual' items that I pack: ![]()
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