Weathering with You (2019) aka Tenki no Ko
A teen romance more interesting for the vision of apocalyptic climate change it presents (and humanity’s realistic, but somewhat odd response to it,) than because of its love story.
The concept of a rain god isn’t entirely alien to me, (Douglas Adams detailed one case in one of his novels,) and in this case, while it initially seems that our main protagonist is one, he is a bruised runaway (without a backstory) who comes to Tokyo looking for work and seemingly followed by a freak months-long monsoon, it ends up not being so (despite the odd meteorological phenomena that seems to accompany him). He finds a 'gopher' job with a self-publishing writer and is assigned the story of ‘sun girls’, that is of people with the supernatural power to summon the sun in rainy weather.
He meets one of them by chance (even before the issue of the Fortean article is presented,) and is attracted to her not realizing she is one or that there is a mythological tradition of human sacrifice associated with the phenomenon.
The presented idea that all communities have their own weather shaman (i.e. the existence of multiple cases) is all but ignored, as we only get to meet the one. This is most convenient as others would then be available to step in where this particular human sacrifice to be interrupted.
The potential catastrophe is not quite at a global scale, but then is neither’s Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (which, because the film ends before it hits land, might simply be limited to Australia,) a film which this one kept suggesting.
Notable is a philosophical attitude that while climate change is cyclical, it’s both in humanity’s hands (were we willing to make the required sacrifice) and outside of our control. Were disaster to hit, we’d simply adapt to the new conditions, never mind its initial destructive effects.
While the film is part of the GKIDS children’s animated collection, this film is rated PG not just because of violence, but also because it alludes to underaged prostitution and human trafficking. The film isn’t particularly family friendly, and though the romance is at the forefront, I suspect its more likely to appeal to audiences interested in the mystical or science fictional, global disaster it's set against.
Technically, the animation of rain and watery elemental creatures and other effects is quite effective, even when most of the phenomena remains unexplained and inexplicable.
With the voices of Kotaro Daigo and Nana Mori.
Check it out.
A teen romance more interesting for the vision of apocalyptic climate change it presents (and humanity’s realistic, but somewhat odd response to it,) than because of its love story.
The concept of a rain god isn’t entirely alien to me, (Douglas Adams detailed one case in one of his novels,) and in this case, while it initially seems that our main protagonist is one, he is a bruised runaway (without a backstory) who comes to Tokyo looking for work and seemingly followed by a freak months-long monsoon, it ends up not being so (despite the odd meteorological phenomena that seems to accompany him). He finds a 'gopher' job with a self-publishing writer and is assigned the story of ‘sun girls’, that is of people with the supernatural power to summon the sun in rainy weather.
He meets one of them by chance (even before the issue of the Fortean article is presented,) and is attracted to her not realizing she is one or that there is a mythological tradition of human sacrifice associated with the phenomenon.
The presented idea that all communities have their own weather shaman (i.e. the existence of multiple cases) is all but ignored, as we only get to meet the one. This is most convenient as others would then be available to step in where this particular human sacrifice to be interrupted.
The potential catastrophe is not quite at a global scale, but then is neither’s Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (which, because the film ends before it hits land, might simply be limited to Australia,) a film which this one kept suggesting.
Notable is a philosophical attitude that while climate change is cyclical, it’s both in humanity’s hands (were we willing to make the required sacrifice) and outside of our control. Were disaster to hit, we’d simply adapt to the new conditions, never mind its initial destructive effects.
While the film is part of the GKIDS children’s animated collection, this film is rated PG not just because of violence, but also because it alludes to underaged prostitution and human trafficking. The film isn’t particularly family friendly, and though the romance is at the forefront, I suspect its more likely to appeal to audiences interested in the mystical or science fictional, global disaster it's set against.
Technically, the animation of rain and watery elemental creatures and other effects is quite effective, even when most of the phenomena remains unexplained and inexplicable.
With the voices of Kotaro Daigo and Nana Mori.
Check it out.
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