![]() ![]() While the visuals are surprisingly good for a film made with such sparse resources, Makoto Shinkai clearly understands that storytelling is the most important part of animation, and he made a film that is more beautiful and touching than almost anything you'd see in Hollywood, and he did it on his computer, and with a run time of under a half hour. I need not mention how this film was made, by one man on his computer. However, the ending is extremely moving and uplifting, more so than I thought this 25-minute film would be. He begins to give up on hearing from her again, and she grieves over what she is unable to tell him from this distance. ![]() But as she drifts further from earth, the messages begin to take a much longer to reach him. A teenage girl travels in space, and the only way for her to contact the boy she loves back on earth in through her cell-phone's text messaging. What a simple concept for a film, executed so wonderfully. ![]()
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