Movie Review: Weathering With You - Shinkai's followup to Your Name brings some of the same magic but falters with the message.
Makoto Shinkai has carved a niche for himself as a purveyor of the melancholic over his nearly two-decade-long career as a filmmaker. From his self-produced debut, the elements of a Shinkai-helmed film have become so idiosyncratic as to be rote. Heart-sullen teenagers, lilting piano ballads, and intricately detailed settings dappled in golden hour lighting.
Set in contemporary Japan, the film follows Hodaka Morishima, a 16-year-old runaway who flees from his remote hometown to eke out a living in Tokyo. Whether it’s angst or wanderlust, there’s something brewing inside of young Hodaka, driving him to move forward and never look back with little in the way of an answer why.
Where the film stumbles is in the execution of its broader themes, the most prominent of which being climate change. At one point, Hina’s powers are linked inextricably to this phenomenon, positing that the increased use of her abilities is causing an inadvertent accelerative effect on the weather surrounding Tokyo.
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