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Living on Air

Susan Mac Nicol

10.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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PIERCING THE NIGHT Cary Stilwell has been existing since he was ten years old, and each year it...

M_M Contemporary Romance

School Lies

Kimberly G. Giarratano

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After finding his headmaster father slumped over his desk from a gunshot wound, Levi Abrams is ready...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Your Name (2016) in Movies

Sep 22, 2021

Your Name (2016)

2016 | Animation, Fantasy, Romance

8.7

(23 Ratings)

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PHOTO EXHIBITION: NOSTALGIA

What would your life be like if you were born somewhere else, *someone* else? How much of our lives is predetermined exclusively on such random variables beyond our control, things that we've all imagined changing at one point or another? Just to be upfront, one of my absolute least favorite plots in movies is switching bodies - the plot tends to just halt entirely to provide such rote "lol person does thing they don't usually do lol" or "uh oh... I'm another gender!" jokes before it actually decides to do anything. But between this and 2020's Freaky I'm glad to see they've finally started putting some nuance into these things. Honestly one of the greatest movies I've ever seen - probably the most bracingly beautiful animated movie ever conceived and it's just as impactful narratively. Tackles layers of regressive gender roles, the cruel indiscriminate randomness within human existence, the tumultuousness of adolescence, and along with Shyamalan's 𝘜𝘯𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 handles the concept of fate/destiny better than any other film I've seen. That and it's also just so damn hilarious. I initially thought the conclusion was maybe about 10 minutes too long, but afterwards I thought perhaps that was the point - in further distancing it from its preceding events, giving legitimacy to its setting. After a string of disappointments made me remember why I even love movies in the first place.