The film I’d like to talk about is “my tomorrow, your yesterday”. It is a japanese live action film based on a novel with the same name. The reason I chose this movie is because of the concept of inverted parallel that has been used in it and somewhere reflects the allegory of meeting the right person at the wrong time where one’s time is moving forward where as other’s time is moving backward. The film talks about a twenty year old guy named Takatoshi Minamiyana who is pursuing a UG degree in visual arts. One day while commuting to the college he encounters Emi Fukuju where they exchange greetings and promises to meet each other everyday and soon they start dating. On march 1, Takatoshi discovers Emi's journal and is shocked to see how emi had written the journal as if the time is moving backwards and the first page of the Journal is dated March 16. Not able to understand anything Takatoshi goes to Emi the next day when Emi reveals that she is a being from a world in which time runs backwards; what humans perceive as the future she already experienced as her past, and vice versa. Emi has been watching Takatoshi from afar since he was young; she was the adult woman who rescued him from drowning at the age of 5. Because her memories of him fade as time goes on (and her time goes backwards), she keeps a journal to remind her of him. She also tells him that they can only be together for a month every five years, and because 20 is the only time their age matches, the current month is the last time where they can pursue a relationship. The concept of inverted parallel world used in this movie somewhere makes the concept look realistic and more believable that maybe there is a parallel world out there where there isn’t much of a difference and is same as our world. Not only this other movies like “your name” “orange” etc are based on the same concept and somewhere turns this idea of parallel world a more realistic one where we are conditioned to think what if there is a world like that out there?
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Date: 2019-07-31 12:03 pm (UTC)