Yeah, I never used to youtube that much; perhaps when searching out songs and such, or to see a funny video. Well, during the Fall exam week, for some reason, the stress and environment drove me to youtube many things, which led to great re-discovers, joy, and happy moments. And also, the Narwhal song. Hahahaa.
Well, these few days, I stumbled across a movie I watched at least a year ago, "5 Centimetres Per Second". And in re-discovering it, realized that at this moment in time, it is the most visually beautiful animated work I've seen so far. And actually, it's not quite a movie, it's divided into three parts, or "episodes", but I have it on one file like a movie. It's a very slow-moving, drama, romance type movie, and I know if people can't stand slow-moving movies in which not much "action" happens, they will hate this movie. However, I could stand it, because of what I gathered from what it gave me: of feelings and life and time. And it's just beautiful to watch, because I remember my impressions of it when I saw it for the first time, and I was saying to myself throughout the movie, whenever a new scene popped up, wow. I wanted to touch the screen. I think I am a sucker for clouds, and the sky, and the pretty landscape.
However, DON"T try to watch this if you're not in the mood, if you're not in the quiet, if you're not alone, because I think it's something one should watch alone, at night, with senses that are not sleepy or tired. ALSO- please don't watch on youtube, or the effect of the animation is wasted. Watch it in the absolute best quality, with not second of blurriness. Or if you're not going to watch this, just google pictures... it's a feast for the eyes.
5 Centimetres Per Second trailer (the kind of quality you should watch it in):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbfwX-AqRY&feature=related
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For something by the same director, Makoto Shinkai, with some of the same aspect in a much shorter form, watch this 5-minute creation called "She and Her Cat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBD5D040D44
Even more amazing, though, is this work, "Voices of a Distant Star"- Shinkai created wrote, produced this all by himself on a Mac computer. He and his wife even provided the voice acting! Considering this, this 30-minute piece is quite something.
Voices of a Distant Star trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc--DFC2w00
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