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原文網址：https://goo.gl/pWCrSz (寫於2016年11月18日)

With “Your Name”, Makoto Shinkai proves himself a director to watch

新海誠因<你的名字>向世人展現了他的導演才華

FANS of Japanese anime had much to rejoice this week. First, there was the
announcement that Hayao Miyazaki had come out of retirement. The 75-year-old
co-founder of Studio Ghibli, and the director of such beloved masterpieces as
“Spirited Away”, said that he couldn’t resist making one more feature
film, even if he will be 80 before he completes “Boro the Caterpillar”. But
that wasn’t the only good news for anime aficionados. Coincidentally, Mr
Miyazaki’s statement came just before the British release of “Your Name”,
a film so exquisite and unpredictable that its director, Makoto Shinkai, has
been called, yes, “the new Hayao Miyazaki”.

這周，日本的動漫迷可有太多事情值得雀躍了，首先是宮崎駿的復出宣言。七十五歲的宮
崎駿是吉卜力工作室的共同創辦人，也是許多受歡迎的大作的導演，像是《神隱少女》等。


Mr Shinkai is no imitator, though. His originality is obvious within the
opening minutes of “Your Name”, with their zooming “camera” movement,
their snappy editing, their unusual angles, their richly-detailed cityscapes
and rural vistas, and, most of all, their variety of gorgeous lighting
effects. A distinctive blend of conventional hand-drawn animation techniques
and digital flair, “Your Name” is worth seeing for the shafts of sunshine
in a dusty room, and the coruscating purple trail of a comet across the night
sky.



It’s so disorientating in its rhythms—and so lovely to behold—that it’s a
while before the film reveals itself to be a fast, well-observed, “Freaky
Friday”-style body-swap comedy. Its teenage heroine, Mitsuha (voiced by Mone
Kamishiraishi), is a schoolgirl who is bored of life in her lakeside mountain
town. Never mind its idyllic views and its ancient rituals, there are no
cafes for her to go to, so she dreams of living as a boy in the hustle and
bustle of Tokyo. And, somehow, her dream comes true. One morning, she can’t
understand why everyone keeps telling her that she behaved weirdly the
previous day, but she eventually figures it out: two or three times a week,
she wakes up to find that her mind has switched places with that of Taki
(Ryunosuke Kamiki), a Tokyo resident of her own age.



At first, this bizarre phenomenon works out well for both of them. When Taki
is in Mitsuha’s body, his basketball skills turn her into a school champion,
and when Mitsuha is in Taki’s body, her feminine sensitivity impresses the
girl he has a crush on. Not that the youngsters are always so intent on
helping each other. Obsessed as she is by metropolitan cafes, Mitsuha can’t
stop ordering expensive desserts whenever she takes over Taki’s identity.
Taki, meanwhile, can’t stop fondling Mitsuha’s breasts whenever he takes
over hers—much to the bemusement of her younger sister.

一開始呢，這奇異的現象進展的尚稱順利，像是當瀧在三葉的身體裡時，他的籃球球技足
以讓她成為全校第一；當三葉在瀧的身體裡時，她女性般纖細的氣質吸引了他暗戀的對象。


A further twist is that, once they return to their own selves, Mitsuha and
Taki soon forget what they did during the switch. This fairy-tale logic is
something of a narrative cheat, but the amnesia is ultimately what gives the
film its considerable poignancy. Like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
”, “Your Name” forces us to ask how much of ourselves we lose whenever a
memory slips away, and why crises which once felt monumental can come to seem
trivial just a few years later.



And that is just half of the film. “Your Name” would have been a quirky
delight if it had stuck to the romantic high-school mix-ups, but it races
past them on its way to a bigger, stranger and more momentous story. It would
be wrong to reveal how exactly it leaps to a thrilling new genre while
retaining its initial nuanced charm and humanity. But it is fair to say that,
as innovative as Mr Shinkai undoubtedly is, he sticks to the anime tradition
of making everything go spectacularly psychedelic and apocalyptic towards the
end of the film. Anyone who came out of “Arrival” with a hunger for more
expansive, heart-rending science-fiction will tuck into “Your Name” as
greedily as Mitsuha/Taki tucks into her/his delicious desserts.

到此，影片只進行到一半。《你的名字》本來可以只是個充滿著高校混亂生活以及多變歡
愉的浪漫劇，但是它被推進到了更為宏大、奇妙、磅礡的故事。如果說本片在保留了最初
的魅力以及人情互動之於，躍入了令人振奮的全新作品類型是不盡精確的，但絕對可以說
，新海先生毫無疑問地、創造性地在維持日本動畫的傳統中，把每一樣元素像是迷幻感與
啟發性等特質，擴展到了更為壯麗的境界。任何剛看完《異星入境（按：本片在英美於撰
文時的該周上映，2017年2月17日才會在台灣上映）》觀眾，如果汲汲於尋覓更為廣闊、揪
心的奇幻類片子時，想必會好好享受《你的名字》這部作品，就像三葉享受美味甜點一樣。

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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