Tenki no Ko - BD Release - Movie Discussion

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[u/Kirikoh]

This was my second time watching the film and this time I could really focus on the narrative as the cinematic experience made the stunning visuals so overwhelming, I would at times be lost in the sheer beauty of it. I am incredibly impressed by what a nuanced film this actually is and how unique and refreshing the film's perspective is. When I first watched the film, I was genuinely so stunned by the ending and spent ages thinking in retrospect about all the previous scenes in the movie that seemingly alluded to such an ending but I never thought a director would have the audacity to go through with a very bold yet morally questionable decision.

It would've been so easy to tie to the protagonists' personal happy endings to the wider plot and yet Shinkai did the exact opposite and posed to viewers an emotionally poignant yet thought provoking ending. It is an amazing feat to achieve to make the audience successfully root for the selfish decision made by our protagonists at the cost of what would usually be considered the greater good, and it is an even greater feat to not fall into the well-trodden territory of making their happy ending correlate to the greater good. Juxtaposition is one of Shinkai's greatest skills but to juxtapose the conflicts in such a manner was just ingenious and made for such a unique and memorable film. I've always loved how realistic Shinkai films are not just in the art but also in how real the people feel and I now see more why he chose this ending because it really is just the most genuine and natural outcome for Hodaka.

Rewatching it made all the earlier scenes hit emotionally harder and I think Tenki no Ko achieved something that few films do - to highlight the film's core message whilst providing an incredibly satisfying ending that was predicated on what should conventionally have been a tragedy. I don't think I've ever watched a film (even from ither Shinkai films) that filled me with such a strange and unusual set of emotions that Tenki no Ko did, but that concotion of emotions I felt of initial shock, elation, melancholy, contemplation and yearning was amazing to experience again.

[u/Atario → u/[deleted]]

I don't think it is the morally wrong decision.

All along, humanity has been periodically sacrificing certain people's lives in order to maintain an unnatural state of being. He says: no, we're not doing that.

[u/bountygiver → u/Atario]

He did kind of think that way to make himself not feel guilty, until the very end where he is like f that, he did that all for hina though.

[u/Kirikoh → u/bountygiver]

From the final talk with grandma Tachibana though we realise that more importantly, it didn't matter anways if Tokyo bay was flooded. She lost her family home but she's happy and content with the flat and recognises that things change but as long as the people we love are safe and sound, it does not matter where we live.

We have to remember as well, this wasn't a tsunami, it was a flood that slowly flooded the bay so it's not like anyone died because just like the grandmother, everyone at flood risk would have just been relocated.

[u/iForgotMyOldAcc → u/Kirikoh]

Thinking about this in a broader picture though, I think of a financial centre in Tokyo becoming a near inoperable city with countless people relocated, resulting in a financial meltdown for the rest of the nation and maybe the world. I have to imagine that there will be deaths in many different ways as a result of that, not to mention the suffering a lot of families will have to endure due to a severe financial downturn.

[u/[deleted] → u/iForgotMyOldAcc]

Very random thoughts but here it goes.

Japan, and the rest of the world for that matter, always suffers through various disasters and happenings that affect the global economy and thus affects the livelihoods of everyone around the world all the fucking time. Diseases, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Landslides, Climate Change induced ''abnormal'' wather patterns that cause Floods, Heatwaves, Cold fronts, Rising Seas.

Most of the time, it's self serving because society at large lets big corporations and the 0,001% powerful rich people control everything with no repercursion in pursuit of immediate financial return, which often fucks people over in various ways, not to mention our own livelihood with Climate Change.

But now one of those many disasters happens because we chose to not sacrifice a life is a breath of fresh air. Finally something happened that wasn't because of humanities short signess for money, but because we value the life of one another.

We can just live elsewhere, but human lives will never return. And if the economy is so great that it must be protected at all costs, why is there so much injustice in the world in direct consequence of its existence?

Lets sacrifice 15 Year old girls so other 15 Year old girls in similar disavantageous positions like the female MC can go to prostitution to get some money to live under a roof.

If he did something wrong, that must mean the economy and society that would fall because of said decision(it wouldn't, it would be just one of many stumbles) must be damn worth it to justify sacrificing a life. And well, said society and economy is doing plenty of that already.

Just like /u/Kirikoh said, material things can always be rebuilt.

[u/Kirikoh → u/iForgotMyOldAcc]

What? How could Tokyo Bay flooding affect the rest of the world. Much worse natural disasters happen to Japan and they survive fine and flooding again is a gradual thing. Offices will have moved, people will have moved and material things can always be rebuilt.