Depressive Screenwriter

The plot of "5 Centimeters Per Second" before the ending, although meticulously portrayed, is essentially a story of distant lovers who eventually separate in the vast sea of people and time.

Although the viewing process is painful, most viewers can adjust their emotions.

However, the train scene at the end is truly the finishing touch.

All viewers were anticipating the end of the train journey, and almost all believed that since Takaki Tono was so deeply influenced by Akari during his growing years,

even after graduating from university and having a girlfriend, he broke up with her because he couldn't wholeheartedly love her, eventually becoming numb to his work and quitting.

Then Akari should be the same.

The movie didn't give too much of Akari's perspective, but almost all viewers thought so.

Because during middle school, Akari's affection for Takaki was equally strong.

Takaki's anxiety to the point of wanting to cry on the train in the first act due to the train delay,

and Akari's act of waiting for him until dawn in that cold weather.

All viewers didn't believe that such feelings would disappear completely with time.

But the result...

is exactly that.

At the end of the movie, the train passes by.

Takaki sees the empty scene across the railway.

The moment he is stunned, then smiles, and turns away without looking back...

The male protagonist is relieved.

But what about the audience?

Those who brought their partners to the cinema to support Su Yan late at night were directly dumbfounded.

It's not that they didn't expect a depressing plot, after all, Su Yan has so many precedents.

But Su Yan's misleading statement in the interview that the protagonist of the movie ending is smiling.

So that's how he's smiling?

What a joke?

And even if the ending is not good, the worst expectation of everyone is like "The Garden of Words," where the male and female protagonists cry a lot and then separate for a while, but didn't the male protagonist of "The Garden of Words" say that he would go find Yukino later? So it's considered semi-depressing, and acceptable.

What is "5 Centimeters Per Second"?

The final fate of a couple who once loved each other so much is that they don't even look back at each other once.

Akari isn't even willing to wait a few dozen seconds for him?

Just like that, letting their destinies completely become strangers in the sea of people?

A group of viewers in Xia Country's cinemas already felt something was wrong.

Especially those couples in the audience, who silently and red-eyed walked out of the cinema.

Although this is just a movie, art originates from life.

The plot in this movie, carefully savored and thought about, seems to be closer to reality.

So, love will disappear, right?

Will the love between Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara disappear with time?

What about people in real life?

Emptiness, depression, discomfort, and various emotions intertwine in their minds.

Finally, it formed the situation where "5 Centimeters Per Second" topped the hot search charts on the four major online broadcasting platforms.

"Brothers, I can't take it anymore."

"Sob, I'm a girl, and I cried uncontrollably outside the cinema after watching it."

"I envy you girls, you can cry when you want. I'm a guy smoking in the cinema toilet, and I miss my ex-girlfriend. Me and her too, we broke up inexplicably!"

"My girlfriend and I were arguing and were basically about to break up, so I wanted to go to the movies with her to ease things up. But after watching '5 Centimeters Per Second,' I directly proposed breaking up with her, easing what! Takaki and Akari both broke up, so it's only a matter of time before me and her!"

"Brother, don't get too into the movie, it's just a movie."

"So what if it's a movie? The movie just gave me inspiration, the reasoning is what I figured out myself, indeed, I feel like there's no point!"

"I'm an idiot, why did I go see this movie?"

"I remembered my first love."

"I went to see this movie with my partner. After the movie ended, I remembered my first love, she secretly used her phone in the car to look at her ex-boyfriend's photos, I secretly peeked at it through the car's rearview mirror. I feel like me and her are about to be done for!"

"Su Yan, you old thief, are you sick!"

"It's so uncomfortable! After watching this movie, I feel empty now!"

"Sigh, I kind of want to scold Su Yan, the old thief, but I also think this ending is a stroke of genius! No matter how it's changed, it won't be better than this!"

"Four movies were released simultaneously tonight, I didn't watch the other three, has anyone seen the other ones? Are they good? Which one has higher box office?"

"No one can say for sure at this time. Tonight's box office champion should be 'Windmill,' its screening schedule is so much higher, but it will be different next. Four movies were released simultaneously, but '5 Centimeters Per Second' topped all four major online broadcasting websites at nine o'clock, which already explains a lot."

"This is the first time I've watched Su Yan's work, I'm asking Su Yan's fans on the forum, is he always like this? Are his works all in this style?"

"Definitely not! In previous works, someone would at least die from depression. So everyone had a bottom line in their hearts for his pure love movies, thinking they wouldn't be too abusive. Who knew '5 Centimeters Per Second' would be like this, it's killing me."

"Can't sleep, going to the Dimensional Film and Television official website to scold him."

"Sob sob sob, I'm guilty, I'm sick. I went looking for abuse late at night, I remembered my first love girlfriend."

"The after-effects of this movie are too heavy. I need to recover..."

"No, I can't be the only one abused. Everyone should promote this movie more and let more passersby couples watch it in the cinema."

"That's right, this kind of work can't just be suffered by us Su Yan fans. More people have to appreciate it."

"Charge"

Throughout the night, fans of "5 Centimeters Per Second" who came out of the cinemas began posting various posts about the movie online.

In fact, Xia Country's film and television media had already known that Su Yan's works are criticized, but the key is to see what the fans are criticizing?

If they're criticizing the work as trash, then there's nothing to say, the work must be bad.

But this situation has never happened so far.

However, once fans start scolding Su Yan the person, it means that this work has a trend of becoming a big hit.

"5 Centimeters Per Second" with 16% of the screenings, but ultimately has such a high reputation online, which already explains a lot.

After midnight.

The box office data of the movies released on July 16th were also tallied in the early hours of the morning.

The box office champion of the day was naturally the movie "Windmill," which had the highest number of screenings and was the most anticipated by everyone before its release.

The total box office on the first day of release on Friday was 98 million.

It was only a little bit away from breaking 100 million.

Judging from this data, if there are no major accidents in the two days of Saturday and Sunday, a single-day box office of over 100 million is a sure thing.

And the name of the box office runner-up of the day was also released.

"5 Centimeters Per Second" ranked second with a box office of 83 million.

However, there are also many key points to analyze in detail in this box office data.

"Black Mist," which also had 16% of the screenings on the first day of release, only had a box office of 59 million on the first day.

You need to know that these three movies all have a group of well-known Xia Country movie stars participating.

In terms of the cast, they are at the same level.

"Windmill" is slightly better, while "5 Centimeters Per Second" and "Black Mist" are comparable.

Since the cast didn't create a gap, why is it that under the same number of screenings, "Black Mist" has so much lower box office on the first day of release than "5 Centimeters Per Second"?

On the first day of release, how can there be such a thing as word-of-mouth affecting the box office?

Word-of-mouth hasn't even come out yet?

This reason is also easy to guess.

The cast can't create a gap.

In terms of director level, the director of "Black Mist" is even more famous.

Then only the off-field factors of the screenwriter are playing a role.

The screenwriter of "5 Centimeters Per Second" is Su Yan.

And Su Yan, although he didn't participate in this movie, a considerable part of his large number of TV series fans chose to support "5 Centimeters Per Second" tonight for his name.

A group of colleagues in the film industry were somewhat silent.

The number of screenings of a movie on the day of its release mainly depends on the marketing of the main creative team before the movie's release and the industry's personal connections.

But after the release, the screening ratio of a movie depends on the quality.

Attendance rate, ratings, and word-of-mouth are all crucial influencing factors.

Cinema owners are not doing charity, they prefer movies with shorter lengths, a cinema hall can schedule a few more screenings a day.

The attendance rate is even more needless to say.

"5 Centimeters Per Second" occupies both of these.

In the early hours of the morning, hundreds of thousands of fans of each movie gave ratings for each movie.

"5 Centimeters Per Second," which was scolded on the hot search by a group of fans that night, opened with a score of 9.4.

Among the four blockbusters on the first day, the comedy movie "Sad Family" with the lowest box office had a score of 8.9.

The fantasy movie "Black Mist" opened with a score of 7.8.

And the movie "Windmill," which the entire industry was most looking forward to before its release today and thought was very likely to be the summer档 box office champion.

Opened with a score of 9.0 on the first day.

After this data was released, a group of practitioners in the film industry became more and more uneasy that night.

Some movies have high scores, but the box office is not high due to niche themes or plots.

Some movies are purely popcorn movies, they look very interesting, but in fact, the audience's rating of them is average.

But a real hit movie must have both commercial appeal and word-of-mouth.

The 9.0 score of "Windmill" is already considered a very high opening score.

And the first-day box office was only a little bit away from breaking 100 million, this result is actually pretty good.

But no matter how you look at it, it seems that the data of this "5 Centimeters Per Second" is not bad at all!

Although the first-day box office was only 83 million, but the 16% screening rate is there.

If your number of screenings is small, it will definitely affect the box office.

And the fan opening score evaluation of this movie is so high?

What is the concept of a 9.4 opening score?

It's the second-highest opening score in Xia Country's film industry this year.

And the movie with the highest opening score, the word-of-mouth is good, but the total box office is less than 100 million, it's called good but not popular.

Colleagues are still thinking, but cinema managers and cinema owners have already expressed their attitude with action.

July 17th, Saturday.

The number of screenings for the two movies "5 Centimeters Per Second" and "Windmill" increased simultaneously, tied for the top spot with 22% of the screenings.

The number of screenings for "Black Mist" remained unchanged, and the number of screenings for the movie "Sad Family" slightly decreased.

And the number of screenings for the war movie "Assault," which had been released for a week, dropped sharply, and the number of screenings for those miscellaneous small and medium-cost movies with basically no screenings was directly cut in half.

The cruelty of this summer档 movie market began to manifest.