{"id":936,"date":"2017-05-06T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/2017\/05\/06\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsyour-name-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:55","slug":"httptheblurb-com-aureviewsyour-name-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsyour-name-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Name – movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stunning, finely rendered and detailed animation in the Japanese anime style is the hallmark of Your Name<\/em>, a youth fantasy written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, who also wrote a novel of the same name. It concerns a mysterious connection between two pupils \u2013 strangers \u2013 living different lives in disparate parts of Japan.<\/p>\n

\"your-name-01\"Mitsuha is a high school girl living in the rural town of Itomori, who is fed up with her life in the countryside. She wishes to leave her mountain village for the hustle and bustle of Tokyo. She dreams she is a boy living in the Japanese capital. Taki, a Tokyo secondary student, wakes up in a daze and comes to realise that he is not himself. Somehow Mitsuha and Taki have managed to body swap. In time they grow used to it and start intervening in each other\u2019s lives. They begin communicating with each other.<\/p>\n

Mitsuha helps Taki get closer to a female coworker at the place where he works part time and even to land a date with her, while Taki aids Mitsuha to become more popular at school. Clearly Mitsuha and Taki have strong feelings for one another and during the course of the movie these are played out, although the plot is anything but straightforward. It involves a comet hitting Mitsuha\u2019s hometown and the pair being in disconnected time zones.<\/p>\n

Your Name<\/i> is a very special production, with extraordinary attention given to each carefully crafted scene. Put simply, it is beautiful to look at.<\/p>\n