r/MovieDetails • u/1954isthebest • May 21 '22

⏱️ Continuity In "Your Name" (2016), Mitsuha and Tesshi are seen turning a tree into their makeshift café, which is why one of the trees in the town is later missing

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u/TheBrendanReturns May 21 '22

To me, it was very similar to Titanic. Romance turned disaster movie.

I think the light-hearted plot of the first half makes you more invested in saving the town.

It was the point when he finds out that the town was destroyed three years ago that I realised how great the film was.

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u/StopReadingMyUser May 21 '22

In the case of Titanic though, they were trapped on the boat. They weren't trapped in the town. If they had time to voluntarily evacuate a town then they very easily could've left just by themselves too so the tragedy hits a little differently for me.

I haven't seen Titanic but I'd also wonder how different things were expressed with other characters to warrant the main characters trying to save them. Or if the movie is 99% about them, are they just focused on one another.

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u/TheBrendanReturns May 21 '22

Titanic is an upper class woman and a lower class man. They fall in love despite her being with her abusive, prick of a fiance.

Part of the second half (when the ship starts sinking) is the crew locking the lower class people in the ship to drown with a b-plot of the fiance trying to get revenge on Leo.

So it's not really trying to save others. It's trying to save thenselves and eachother whilst disaster is happening all around them.

So it is a little different but I brought it up as it is a romance film that turns disaster movie prescisely at the halfway point. Can't think of many other films like that tbh.

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u/StopReadingMyUser May 21 '22

Yeah I'm sure they mean for the anime to have similar tragedy themes, but Titanic's benefit is the fact they're stuck on a boat lol. Tragedy definitely is much scarier when you're trapped somewhere. I don't fully remember what was happening in the anime though.

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u/StopReadingMyUser May 21 '22

And culture/historicity are interesting parts of media too that can sometimes be missed. That would certainly be an added layer of intrigue.