![]() There were more than enough opportunities for him to elaborate on the reasons. Since he's still just a kid, him deciding to run from home has got to be up there in terms of major events that likely form part of who he is today (at the time of the movie), so knowing that helps us understand where he's coming from. The movie doesn't tell us whatsoever, and sometimes leaving that blank can be effective, but I don't think it was in this case. He could have just been bored or dissatisfied. ![]() His parents could have been genuinely abusive, absent or just strict. I don't deny that Hodaka's home life was unhappy, but it could have been anything. She was just sick of the monotony and the expectations set on her. Mitsuha in Your Name felt the same about her town and aside from some tension with her father, her life wasn't all that bad. I think a lot of people have entertained that fantasy at least once in their life. Casting aside your boring old life for a fresh start in a new place is exciting on paper at least. Maybe not as extreme but other people's lives are going to be fucked.Įscaping from a small town he lived in (on a remote island, nonetheless) to a big city, especially one as cool as Tokyo, is an attractive idea for a lot of young people. It would be like Taki causing the meteor strike to save Mitsuha, or at the very least not stopping it in exchange for her life. And we do care because we like Hina, but when the entire city (and probably a lot of the country) is going to be permanently changed, it's a bit harder to get on board with. Your Name's stakes are so much more real - in WWY, the thing Hodaka wants to save is Hina's life, which is all well and good, but that's all the movie wants us to care about. Since he returns to his home at the end and little else is said (and he's then able to go back to Tokyo on his own) we can assume that his home life probably isn't that bad. If he his a victim of abuse, then okay, we know why he'd run away. It's hard to root for him when we don't really know what set him on this path. All we're told is that he "feels suffocated" at home, but that could be anything from him being abused to him just being a whiny brat. Not everything needs to be explained, but we don't really know enough about Hodaka to really understand him. The fact that we barely get any insight into the characters' backstories hurts it as well, I think. What about all the people's homes they just destroyed? What's romantic about being self-centered pieces of shit? It sucks that they were put in that situation, but it's hard to have any sympathy for them when they don't then address the consequences of their actions. In WWY, they just don't give a shit about sacrificing an entire city just for the sake of a teen romance. That's romantic in a deep and meaningful way. Whether or not they were in love, they did the right thing for the right reason and supported each other through it. They don't need to save everyone, but they do because they both care about the town, even when Mitsuha is sick of it. In Your Name, the characters work together to help each other with the things that are more important than either of them. ![]() I just can't get behind WWY for the final act and story direction. I watched them back to back in the cinema and whilst they are both mind blowingly pretty, Your Name has a significantly better story.
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