A pair of lovers separated by the earth and the universe, the only way to contact is mobile phone text messages.
This is the 2002 animated film "The Sound of Stars" by Makoto Shinkai.
Makoto Shinkai's animation is still different from Miyazaki's style.
There will be many people complaining that this movie has a bad style and ugly characters, because Makoto Shinkai's films have always been known for their exquisite picture quality.
But in 2002, the scene that can achieve this level is already very powerful.
After all, it was an era when we could watch flash animation and think it was very good.
The speed at which electromagnetic waves propagate in a vacuum is equal to the speed of light.
Megako left Earth and went to outer space. The interstellar distance inexorably prevented them from telling each other about their thoughts.
Between them is a great leap in time in horror measured in light years.
In the summer of 2046, A-sheng, who was looking forward to the upcoming high school time, rode a bicycle with Mikako, and at this time, they did not expect that a year later, Mikako would be selected to go to outer space.
As Mikiko gets farther and farther away from Earth, they take longer and longer to receive text messages from each other.
The text messages sent between the male and female protagonists range from the earliest chat at any time, to the later message to be received a year later, and then, the last message to be received in eight years.
If the only way to connect is to wait, to wait for a long cycle, will you wait for a lover who does not know if he will come back?
For eight years and seven months, all we could see was a stack of treatises on cosmic technology lying quietly in his room.
There was once a person waiting for you somewhere in a distant time, but you didn't realize it, and you couldn't convey that heart.
The girl Mikako tells him on another distant planet that the environment here is very similar to the earth, but it is different from the earth.
Because there are no shops we like, no roads we have ever traveled.
The only thing left that transcends time and space is called thought.
It comes from the distant universe and from the depths of the interconnected souls.
Fifteen-year-old Mikako sends her last text message to A-sheng on the distant planet Sirius.
In the last annihilation operation, she was severely damaged in order to protect the battleship, and died with the alien creatures on an Earth-like planet.
Ah Sheng, on the other hand, had already learned of this news in the newspaper seven years ago.
However, when he finally got his wish to enter high school, he also chose to join the army and go to the battle to defend the earth.
At the end of "The Sound of Stars", Ah Sheng's mobile phone, which was about to be allowed to participate in the work of the fleet, suddenly rang.
Ah Sheng received the belated text message that he should have received eight years ago:
"15-year-old Mikako greets 24-year-old Ah Sheng and I want to tell you that until now, I still like you very, very much."
There are two factors that emotions can't surpass, one is time and the other is distance.
And these two factors appear between the male and female protagonists at the same time.
Love across planets, across light years.
So, Mikako, who calculated the arrival time, sent a message that read:
Hello 24-year-old Ah Sheng! I'm 15-year-old Mikako!
This relatively early rise of "The Sound of Stars" is also in line with Makoto Shinkai's previous style: love can not get the series.
In eight years, everything has changed over time and become a vicissitude.
In that trance, Ah Sheng seemed to return to the original time, as if the love was still there.
This is probably the true meaning of love through time and space.
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