

Giving them perverted, shy, quirky, and thought-provoking characteristics all added up to two loveable on-screen animated characters that I found myself tearing up with by the final moments of Your Name. What a film needs to do in order to make its audience care about its characters by the final moments, is to make compelling cases as to why we need to care about them.

If you are willing to think and be open for anything, I'm sure 90% of its audience will fall in love with its premise. While this is not a personal flaw I have with the film, it's definitely where I feel the dislikes will come from the people giving it negative reviews. Making viewers rethink the entire film, there are quite a few moments where I can see the audience becoming totally lost, not being able to fully grasp the emotional conclusion. Not staying in that territory for long, a much deeper and touching story arises. At first, this film is a loveable (and slightly perverted) comedic body-swap story. This film does an impeccable job at easing you into the complexity of its story. The fact that the conclusion can have a few different meanings, is also my one complain about this film. There are a few different ways of interpreting the conclusion of this film, and I personally found it fascinating. The very essence of this film is about time and what it truly means.
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Through a series of fun mishaps, sad realizations, and a punch-to-the-gut twist that alters the entire framework this film sets in motion throughout the first act, this familiar body-swap storyline is far more complex than what the initial plot synopsis/trailers have lead you to believe. Feeling a sense of connection, they are determined to meet each other. Randomly occurring over and over again, they learn to communicate with each other in cryptic ways. Two separate people, living two separate lives, in two separate parts of the world, suddenly wake up in each other's body one morning. Here is why I believe Your Name is a near-perfect film. You may or may not be able to get a chance to see this film at this point in time, but once this film is available to stream or purchase, I can't recommend this film enough, especially if you are a fan of this genre of filmmaking. Not only is this film beautifully animated and one of the best stories to come from any Anime film in recent memory, but the emotional impact this film delivers in the third act is truly out of this world. After seeing this film on the big screen, I now see what all of the chatter was about. Finally making its way around the world, Your Name is a film that has been loved by the people of Japan back in 2016.
