5cm/s

I've been meaning to blog about this short series of film i've watched titled

5centimeters a second.
3 short series of animated film.

It talks of a boy and a girl (duh) being separated from each other. Wikipedia has the whole synopsis if anyone's interested.

So here's a short review from yours truly.

The story line is rather good considering it's not cliche. The story is told through subtle hints rather than dialogues and there is hardly any of those fancy anime action. The main attraction of this film is that it's beautifully drawn and the song going along with the story is almost perfectly picked.

But now I'd rather talk about the main message. The title 5cm / s is referred to many times in the movie first as the speed of the sakura and secondly as the speed of a train carrying space crafts. However the director of these films actually wanted to express this 5cm/s as the speed of how humans will distance themselves from people when separated by physical/emotional and other boundaries.

I thought to myself to find this fact in reality; I didn't have to look far. I realize there are many friends who I feel have gone this path of drifting away at 5cm/s. Most of us fail to realize it, but if you take a look at your facebook friends list, how many of them do you still talk to regularly? The fact is try as we man if we are to be faced with a challenge that needs to be overcome in order to see the person beyond that challenge we'd choose to not go through with it. Why? Because we're lazy.

where am i going with this? I dunno... this IS a brain puke.

so... til next post
cya!