The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 320 What's Your Name?
Lu Xiao and his girlfriend chose "Your Name" because of the love label of this movie.

The two tasted the sweetness in "Mirage" and realized that DreamWorks is also very good at making love movies. It can also make love shoot sweetness and romance without reducing the sci-fi setting.

Of course, the animation of "Your Name", and it is still in the form of two-dimensional animation, made Lu Xiao and his girlfriend hesitate.

Lu Xiao is a movie fan, he likes to watch movies, but he is not interested in animation, whether it is animated dramas or animated movies, whether it is Dongying animation, American animation, or domestic animation, he has been interested in this theme since the third grade of elementary school Lack of interest.

Yu Xiaoling is not a movie fan—although she has watched a lot of movies under the guidance of Lu Xiao, especially the movies of DreamWorks—and she has no interest in animation. Do not watch animation.

The two of them are not a minority. Although "Your Name" bears the name of DreamWorks, most audiences don't buy it. Obviously, no matter how big the name is, a two-dimensional hand-painted animation film is difficult to attract the mainstream of Huaguo. The interest of the audience, if it is a 3D animation movie, should increase some potential audiences.

Not to mention that the theme is still love, or a small and fresh love story between two boys and girls. Even parents with children will not take their children to watch such animated movies-children themselves are likely not interested in such themes. .

"Your Name" also doesn't have a fan drama background, and it is not a well-known IP, so anime fans are rarely interested.

Only in this way will there be an unprecedented situation where there are two or three big cats and kittens in the theater showing DreamWorks movies.

But the two of them were able to watch this animated film for the first time thanks to his girlfriend Yu Xiaoling. Yu Xiaoling likes to watch romantic movies, especially the Chinese Valentine's Day. Of course, they should watch sweet romantic movies. Couples watch love on Valentine's Day This is just needed.

However, Yu Xiaoling also had some lingering fears about domestic romance movies because she had been fooled too many times. The two watched several romance movies that were released at the same time. The names and trailers of several live-action movies made them have some ominous premonitions.

Exudes a strong feeling of mutual love and mutual hurt, as well as various misunderstandings and separation.

Lu Xiao and his girlfriend have a very good relationship, and have no intention of breaking up. They hate Yuzhi movies. It seems that only the trailer of "Your Name" is solidly sweet, and it is still a youthful love. The painting style is beautiful and fresh, coupled with the brand blessing of DreamWorks and the good impression of "Mirage", the two finally chose "Your Name".

"It's a pity that those blind people didn't choose "Your Name"..."

After Lu Xiao digested the great surprise the movie brought him, he remembered the vast crowds of couples lining up for other love movies and the sparse audience of "Your Name" while waiting in the theater lobby.

He felt lucky, sympathetic and superior from the bottom of his heart, and mourned for the couples in other theaters who were being fed shit by domestic romance movies with a hypocritical name composed of seven or eight characters.

Back on the big screen, since the boy didn't get through to the heroine, he never exchanged bodies with the heroine in his dream, and the memory of body swapping in the dream also began to fade away, as if that magical episode The experience was really just a dream, and the number in memory was prompted to be an empty number, which seemed to confirm this possibility.

This made the young man want to find the girl he "possessed" in his dream. Those experiences are so real, he wants to prove that it is not a dream!
The male protagonist keeps drawing on the paper the increasingly blurred landscape of the girl's landscape and the huge enclosure, as if he wants to record it forever before completely forgetting it.

Then, after class every day, he frantically searched the buildings and scenery in his vague memory on the Internet, and finally he found the place that seemed to be in his dream.

One weekend, the boy boarded the train heading for his dream without hesitation.

In addition to being moved, Lu Xiao also had a strong sense of déjà vu—"Mirage".

Obviously he wasn't the only one who had such an idea, his girlfriend Yu Xiaoling looked at him, and they both thought of something.

It's like the male protagonist in "Mirage" from childhood to adulthood, looking for the woman who appeared on TV and talked to him for a firm obsession.

It's just that unlike "Mirage", the boy's search journey in "Your Name" is doomed to end in tragedy. Any difficulties the male protagonist encounters in the process of searching will make the audience feel more sad .

This kind of sadness reached its peak when the young man crossed the blockade, climbed the slope with difficulty, and saw the scene in front of him, and it turned into a shocking shock.

During the progress of the plot, because the screenwriter no longer intends to release smoke bombs, all the audience in the theater gradually understand the fact that the hero and heroine are in two different time and space, and the heroine has long since died.

But when the truth was revealed before the eyes, the audience still fell into endless sorrow and consternation just like the hero.

In front of the young man is a large lake. The huge crater formed by the impact of the meteorite has accumulated clear blue lake water, sparkling in the sunlight of the setting sun, beautiful and shocking.

Facing everything he saw in front of him, the hero quickly realized the truth after being shocked.

He finally recalled all kinds of information and details that he had ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

Two years ago, when the comet passed by the earth, the stars that split out destroyed a village. The news of the heavy casualties was well known, but he has been avoiding or ignoring this possibility—the village in his dream , that huge earthen enclosure was destroyed by a comet two years ago.

When he used his computer and mobile phone to match and retrieve possible locations, there were obviously a lot of information pointing to the meteorite disaster, but he ignored them either accidentally or deliberately.

That was not a dream, that girl was real, but she died two years ago, and there was an insurmountable time gap between them.

When the boy took out his mobile phone and looked at the "body swapping" many times, the girl recorded the diary in the notepad of his mobile phone and showed him the diary, which recorded what stupid or good things the girl had done with his body. What pranks, ridiculous details of getting along with classmates, what delicious tastings he bought with his money.

But the lines of words, the diary entries are rapidly becoming garbled characters, and then the words and lines disappear, even if the boy's trembling fingers move randomly, they can't stop the last trace of the girl from disappearing.

There was only a blank space, as if it was all just a dream.

The picture of the boy bending over in pain and silent tears sliding down his cheeks, together with the sad piano music, hit Lu Xiao's heart and the hearts of all the audience.

The sadness and helplessness that seemed to be an illusory dream, which could not stop it from disappearing, made him and his girlfriend feel the same, and made it difficult for them to escape from the deep immersion. tears.

"I made a mistake... This is also a depressing love movie..."

A gust of wind blew by, and the red rope tied around the boy's wrist that had been loosened during the climb was blown out with the wind.

The red string was flying in the air, as if echoing the melody of the piano. The young man stretched out his hand to chase the red string fluttering in the wind. It seemed that the rope was extremely important to him.

The red string floats towards the clear lake in the crater, and falls lightly on the orange-red waves reflected by the sunset.

Amid the sporadic exclamations in the theater, the boy jumped into the lake without hesitation.

Under the sparkling water, the boy's clothes and hair fluttered in the water. The boy's clear eyes were fixed on the hazy red rope ahead, and his hands and feet were paddling in the water to get close to the dancing red rope.

The slender red rope seemed to form a bow in the dance, a bow tied in the girl's hair.

The picture returns to the girl riding a bicycle, the bow-shaped red rope tied in her hair flutters in the wind.

It turned out that the girl had faintly realized in her heart her feelings for the boy who swapped bodies with her in the dream. She had told her grandma, friends and classmates about it, but no one took it seriously. They all thought it was just her dream, but she But she firmly believes that there must be such a boy in the metropolis thousands of miles away, the boy who appeared in her dream.

The girl came to the bus station, changed to a bus, went to the train station, and took the train to Shanghai. She wanted to surprise that boy with anticipation and shame.

Yu Xiaoling covered her mouth and looked at the expectant girl leaning against the window of the train with tears in her eyes.

The girl came to the metropolis where traffic is full of traffic and steel forests. When she first arrived in the big city, she dialed the phone number of the boy she wrote down when she swapped bodies in her dream.

"...the number you dialed is an empty number, please check and dial again...sorry, the number..."

Before Lu Xiao recovered from the helplessness and pain of his youth, he fell into a deeper layer of sorrow.

The boy didn't call the girl's phone number because the girl died two years ago.

The girl did not call the boy's phone number because it was the boy's cell phone number two years later.

There is not only a distance of thousands of miles between the two, but also the insurmountable time.

The girl was disappointed and didn't dial the number, but she remembered the name of the school the boy attended—Modu No. [-] High School.

The hostess inquired about the traffic route clumsily, and took the subway one after another.

She had just gotten off a subway train and merged into the vast sea of ​​people on the platform, but suddenly she seemed to see a figure, a figure that she was extremely familiar with.

That figure was exactly the opposite of him, and was about to enter the subway from the platform.

Excited and anxious, the girl pushed against the crowd towards the subway.

When Lu Xiao saw this place, he said silently, "Damn!"

Isn't this the famous scene in "Mirage"?An animation and a live-action movie achieve a wonderful echo here.

The scene of the girl squeezing into the subway against the flow of people to find the male protagonist seemed to overlap with the scene in "Mirage" where the male protagonist squeezed into the subway against the flow of people to find the female protagonist.

However, the difference is that in "Mirage" it is a romantic encounter...

However, the retrograde girl in the picture at this moment will only meet her with greater disappointment.

"...It's me, don't you remember?"

"who are you……"

The girl's expectation of traveling thousands of miles turned into empty disappointment and confusion in an instant.

The boy at this time doesn't know the heroine yet, and his "dream" will not begin until two years later, but the other end of the "dream" is the girl at this moment.

Yu Xiaoling, who was leaning against Lu Xiao, already had tears on her cheeks. What is farther than the distance is the distance of time.

Two young men and women who are attracted to each other, no matter how hard they try to meet each other, they can cross the distance of thousands of miles again and again, but they still can't cross the seemingly narrow and shallow time of 730 days and nights.

She has never had such a deep understanding of what it means to "meet each other and not know each other", but she felt the powerlessness and shock in this animated film.

Just when the girl was disappointed and stepped out of the subway door at the next stop, the boy suddenly felt a sense of loss, and hurried to the door of the car, shouting to the girl: "What's your name?"

The girl turned around with a bright smile, said her name aloud, and raised her hand to tear off the red bow tied in her hair.

On one side of the slender red rope is the girl, and the other end is held in the boy's hand.

There were several exclamations in the theater.

"So this is the red string on the hero's wrist?"

"No wonder... the hero is so precious, does he subconsciously know what the red string is?"

"It's so romantic—"

The picture returns to the lake formed by the meteorite crater.

The boy had already brought back the red rope from the lake, and was lying on the water, looking at the night sky where the sun had already set and the dark blue curtain was gradually pulling up.

In a trance, the blazing comet with its long tail appeared again among the stars.

"Hoo-ha--" a quick breath.

The boy got up from the bed and looked at himself in the pink floral pajamas. He walked to the mirror in disbelief, and saw the familiar face of the girl. The girl in the mirror quickly changed from bewildered to surprised.

Accompanied by the juvenile's surprise, there were exclamations in the theater one after another.

"Can you switch bodies again?"

"It's saved!"

"Is this another possession of the girl's body from two years ago?"

A huge surprise emerged in Lu Xiao's heart, and he couldn't help but praise the screenwriter and director. He knew that DreamWorks' movies must give people hope, except for "Black Mirror", which is a crazy drama.

……

Under the surging melody, a series of blazing meteors, dragging a white smoke tail, skipped over the beautiful and magnificent ocean and land below.

"Wow!" Not only Lu Xiao and his girlfriend, but also other audience members in the theater exclaimed.

It seems that the audience in the theater of "Gravity" has seen it.

This scene is almost exactly the same as the scene in "Gravity" where Tiangong-[-] disintegrates and turns into a daytime meteor passing through the atmosphere.

The difference is that this time it is the disintegration of the comet, and it is a hand-drawn animation instead of CG special effects.

If this scene appeared in other movies, it may be plagiarized or borrowed, but "Gravity" and "Your Name" are both DreamWorks movies, and this scene has become a tribute and echo in the hearts of the audience.

Just like the echo of "Mirage" in "Mirage", what it brings to the audience is a surprise like an easter egg.

In the capital city, the young man was on the roof looking at the stars with comet tails in the night sky with fascination.

Thousands of miles away, the girl and the villagers who had moved to a safe place also looked up in amazement at the comet that split into several stars and flitted across the sky. The impact hit the villages and towns, and a strong explosion broke out. The earthen buildings with strong ethnic customs were wiped out, and a spectacular mushroom cloud rose.

When the screen turns again, the young man has grown up. Like other office workers in the metropolis of Shanghai, he takes the subway to and from the company and home, fulfilling his work and busying his life.

But it's still different.

A man always feels vaguely that he seems to have forgotten something, someone, a certain experience, or a certain dream when he is busy with work and life.

This made him feel that there was always a emptiness in his heart that could not be filled, and there was nothing to fill it.

The man often scans aimlessly the crowds on the street and the passengers in the subway. There seems to be a voice in his heart urging him, telling him to find a person or a place.

Every time he heard about the natural disaster caused by the comet two years ago, and the village that was lucky enough to be evacuated before the impact of the meteorite, he felt heart palpitations.

But the man didn't know what his palpitations were, but there was something that kept haunting him.

Under the faint expectation of the audience in front of the screen, the beautiful piano melody sounded.

On the subway platform, the man saw a woman standing on the platform through the subway window, and the woman also saw him.

As the train started moving, two pairs of eyes crossed quickly.

"that person!"

The urban men and women who have grown up both confirm that the other is the one who makes them feel lost, even though each of them has faded and blurred like a distant dream in the other's mind, even if they have forgotten the other's name.

The man waited until the next station and quickly rushed out of the trains, rushed out of the platform amidst the crowds, came to the street, and ran towards an inexplicable direction.

Women, too, leave the subway station and run against the current along the heavily pedestrianized sidewalk.

This time, the two boys and girls who have grown up are no longer either side's unilateral search. They cross the barrier of time and look for each other.

On an overpass.

The two gasped violently and looked at each other with surprise and confusion in their eyes. The surprise was that they knew that the other was the person he/she was looking for, but the confusion was that they didn't know why they were looking for each other.

The dream has dissipated, and the memory is like foam in the water, without a trace.

"Excuse me, what's your name?"

"What's your name?"

Accompanied by your clean, deep, distant and delicate singing voice, your name emerges in the frozen picture of the beautiful sky.

Until the subtitles came up, the sparse audience in Nuo Da’s theater was still immersed in the melodious singing and the dream world created by the movie.

Lu Xiao took the first step out of the dream-like emotions, took out his mobile phone, and replied to the surprised eyes of his girlfriend with mottled tears on his cheeks: "Would you like to watch it again?"

(End of this chapter)