言叶之庭ppt

The Garden of Word s

The works of Makoto Shinkai have had a real impact on my own creative life over the years. The beauty he depicts in the ordinary，and the emotions he is capable of stirringthrough his visuals and his scripts，are things to aspiretowards. So，when the chance came up to see his latest work，The Garden of Words，I surely jumped at it.

Fifteen-year-old Takao dreams of becoming a shoemaker，funding his aspirations through part-time jobs. During the rainy season，he always skips morning classes on rainy days and goes instead to Shinjuku Gyoen，where he sits at a pavilion and sketches shoes and feet. On one of these mornings，he meets a 27-year-old woman there，skipping work and drinking beer…

The film explores the feelings of a 15-year-old towards an older woman. For Takao，this sophisticated and mysterious woman represented his dreams and his aspirations for growing up，an existence far removed from his childish reality. What might strike viewers initially as an unbalanced relationship is transformed as we，and the characters，come to the realization that despite their differences，they were both in their own way，“learning to walk，”with the other’s help.

Rain is the “code”that enables the two to meet.

Rain is what transforms the garden into an isolated space in which two kindred souls find themselves meeting.

And rain，of course，provides the opportunity for some of the most stunning and detailed imagery yet. With every one of Shinkai’s films，you can see an evolution in the sophistication of his already outstanding background art. From beginning to end，I found myself catching my breath from time to time，from the sheer beauty of this work.

Some people go searching for beauty, traveling to exotic locales halfway around the world. But beauty isn't in how something is；it's just how you see it. Shinkai sees how beautiful the mundane，ordinary things of this world are：clouds，rain，shadows，trains，and the strangers you walk past every day. Shinkai’s films help the viewer realize this.Together through their conversations—in their "garden of words"—they found companionship: Takao finding someone he can share his passion with, and Yukino finding someone who treats her as a person. However, because of the age difference, this discovery varied between the characters. For Yukino, an older and more experienced individual, her hopeless feelings of lonely sadness disappeared when she learned she could connect with T akao, a revelation that she saw as her salvation. For Takao, a boy with an unsupportive family and friends who seemed more like acquaintances, he did not realize his lack of companionship until he discovered it with Yukino, a new feeling he mistook for romantic love but only realized its true nature after she had moved away. According to Kaze,