你的名字。

There exists quite a lot of criticism to Your Name., like excoriating that the mixture of various high-end literary forms and concepts revealed the director's full ambition and aggressiveness. Lacking in a bit of rigorousness as control over the time line, it still outstands as one of the most prominent masterpiece amongst the Japanese animated films which the author has watched till now.

By contrast with From Kokuriko Hill written by Miyazaki Hayao and directed by Miyazaki Goro, music and film art of Your Name. never performed inferiorly than did the former, nor did plots underperformed in any respect. Works of Genre Miyazaki were adept at utilising abundant and variegated classical symphony and soft female vocals to decorate themselves as exquisite French banquets in beautification; Shinkai Makoto got used to applying more elements of popular music, and more boldly, he chose RADWIMPS, a Japanese niche rock band, which presented just as a Japanese dessert in average home, with catchy commonness full of favour and precisely targeted emotion expression. From the perspective of film art, Your Name. inherited the exquisiteness in every frame, since 5 Centimetres Per Second was issued, and revealed more integrity as well as smoothness than did the works of Genre Miyazaki. Speaking of plots, the film was not merely as fresh and romantic as Garden Of Words, but full of delectable ups and downs as well, which indeed displayed his thorough sincerity and effort to tell a tale.

With no resemblance to the works of Genre Miyazaki in seek of grand themes and profound thoughts, instead, Shinkai Makoto prefers to realise life and emotion of modern men and women, to render magnificent dreams and explorations beyond times, and to pursue briskness, exquisiteness, elegance as well as tenderness. Moreover, he even contains sort of Naturalistic charm. Bold applications of new technologies or even cutting-edge technologies feature Shinkai Makoto distinctively and endow his works with excellent painting techniques and visual rendering. Yet due to such innovation, these trials incur disdain from some conservatives of Hand-Painted Genre along with harvesting appreciation.

Cartoonists of Genre Miyazaki hold a philosophy that even a flower can reflect a universe, while Shinkai Makoto is in favour of depicting trivial life with delicacy and nihility. The two genres are not two antagonist blocs like ice against fire but twin stars of Japanese animation industry, mutually attractive, yet independent. To be concluded, the author reckons that New Rococo High-Tech Group headed by Shinkai Makoto are the emerging next generation who can completely relay cartooning from Genre Miyazaki or coexist with them to expand the Japanese cultural pattern.

Note: "Rococo" and "High-Tech" are both derived from architecture. Although there are derived concepts of Rococo in literature and painting, but the author knows little but Rococo in architecture. Hereby the concept used in the text is derived. The concept of High Tech refers to the transformation and application of achievements of contemporary new technology, in accord with the core the High-Tech in architecture. The concept of New emphasises its epoch-making innovation.

對《你的名字。》批判挺多的，說高大上的文學形式和概念雜糅一起上，看得出導演十足的野心等等。儘管時間線的把控的確差一絲嚴謹，但它仍不失為筆者看過日本目前最傑出的動畫電影之一。

與宮崎吾朗導演、宮崎駿編寫的《虞美人盛開的山坡》相比，無論是音樂、美術還是情節，《你的名字。》毫不遜色。宮崎系擅用層次豐富且變化多端的古典交響樂和柔線女聲，每次都如一場精美的法宴；新海誠運用流行音樂元素較多，此次更是選擇了日本小眾搖滾樂隊RADWIMPS，這倒像百姓家的日式甜點，上口的尋常中仍飽含心意，感情傳達直擊靶心。在美術上，電影則傳承了《秒速5釐米》以來一貫的幀秒精緻風，也比宮崎系更一體和流暢。情節上，不僅有《言葉之庭》的清新和浪漫，更有極具觀賞性的起伏跌宕，看得出新海誠這次是在用心講一個故事。

新海誠不像宮崎系追求宏大的主題和深邃的思考，而緊貼現代男女之間的生活與情感，展現瑰麗的夢幻和超脫現代的探索，追求輕快精緻、秀雅溫柔，但也含有幾分自然主義韻味。大膽運用新技術甚至尖端技術是新海誠的鮮明特點並使其作品擁有精湛的繪畫工藝和視覺渲染，收穫讚譽的同時也因其拓新遭到堅持“手繪至上”的部分保守勢力的輕蔑。

宮崎系秉信用一草一花講述宇宙的理念，新海誠則愛以精緻與虛無刻畫瑣碎的日常。兩派不是對立的冰火，而是日本動畫界的雙子星，各自珍惜也特立獨行。總之，筆者認為以新海誠為首的洛可可世新高技派是完全能夠接力宮崎系畫派或與之共存的拓展日本文化格局的新生代漫畫家。

注：“洛可可”與“高技派”皆源於建築學。儘管“洛可可”有文學和繪畫領域的概念，但筆者對此少有涉獵，僅對建築學領域的“洛可可”略知一二，因而由此引申本詞；“高技”此指對當代新技術新成果的轉化和運用，契合“高技派”內核。“世新”強調其劃世代性的創新。

22.07.2018

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