许多爱情电影的故事都始于一场美好的相遇，之后的一切都由此展开。但在电影《你的名字》中，观众们甚至都无法确定男女主角是否真正相遇过，尽管他们都曾诡异地在彼此的身体中醒来。
An *endearingly loopy mix of time-travel, body-swapping, and disaster-movie ingredients that’s already a massive hit in its native Japan, this unconventional romance *hails from the imagination of Makoto Shinkai, a talented young animation director who launched his career with the ultra-indie Voices of a Distant Star (2002), and who has *dedicated himself to creating some of the country’s most stunning anime ever since.
这部电影集穿越、身体互换、灾难片等多种元素于一身，在日本本土已成为票房的一大热门。这一突破传统的爱情故事源自一位年轻的动画导演新海诚。他极具天赋，以独立派的电影作品《星之声》（2002）出道。从那时起，他便致力于创作日本最精良的动画。
Because neither Newton’s Laws nor traditional genre rules apply here, Your Name’s fantastical premise skips the usual love-at-first-sight cliche and introduces its would-be couple–big-city Tokyo teen Taki and provincial schoolgirl Mitsuha–under far more intimate circumstances.
无论是牛顿定律，还是其他的传统规律都并不适用于《你的名字》这部电影。于是，它的奇幻设定也越过了一见钟情的老梗，以更为亲切的方式呈现了生活在东京的少年泷以及乡下女生三叶之间的故事。而在他们所处的未来中，东京是现在的两倍大。
Rather than worrying
观众们对男女主角之间可能发生的一系列事情并不感到担忧，整部电影的悬念却在于这两人能否最终找到彼此，以及为何一开始宇宙能将他们连在一起。
Sooner or later, this playful setup gives way to a far more elaborate supernatural *scenario, one that exploits a feeling not unlike *deja vu, only stronger, as neither character can seem to hold onto the memory of what they did while “out-of-body” for long. Meanwhile, the puzzle becomes increasingly clear to us, the audience, as we gradually come to understand the significance of a gorgeousatmospheric condition teased in the film’s opening seconds.
而这一有趣的设定最终会被一个设计更为精美的超自然场景所取代，并探索一种比似曾相识更为强烈的情感。由于长时间的“灵魂出窍”，男女主人公似乎都无法留住那段时间的记忆。与此同时，观众们也逐渐解开了片中的谜团，开始理解影片开场展现的华美气象的用意。
Audiences would be hard-pressed to find any animator capable of rendering more beautiful skies, or landscapes, than Shinkai, although much has been written in recent years
近年来，手绘动画时日无多的担忧言论层出不穷。但即便如此，观众们也很难找到能渲染出像新海诚那样绘制出壮丽的天空与景致的动画师。
Granted, no *cels were harmed in the making of Your Name, though the director and his team have found a way to keep the aesthetic alive–to heighten it, even–while doing all of their drawing on tablets and screens.
在制作《你的名字》这部电影的过程中，的确没有一帧动画受损，但导演和他的制作团队找到了一种让美保持鲜活——甚至将其升华——的方法，他们所有的绘制工作都是在平板电脑和屏幕上完成。
The movie has even received international acclaims. “Throughout, Shinkai *juxtaposes male and female, town and country, science and superstition, past and present. But it’s in the twilight twinkling ... when night and day meet and worlds old and new *collide, that the real heart of this story lies,” The Guardian’s Mark Kermode wrote. “Like Chris Marker’s pioneering sci-fi La jetée (1962), Your Name *spirals elegantly towards a point where beginnings and ends become indistinguishable, but does so more in the manner of a *melancholy coming-of-age comedy than an abstract arthouse experiment.”
该片甚至还获得了国际赞誉。“在整部影片中，新海诚将男性与女性、城市与乡村、科学与迷信、过去与现在并列一处。但在暮色的闪烁中…日夜相交、新旧世界碰撞之时，那才是这个故事真正的核心所在，”《卫报》的马克•柯默德写道。“正如克里斯•马克开拓性的科幻电影《堤》那样，《你的名字》优美地上升到了一个开头和结尾别无二致的高度，但它更像是一部忧郁风格的成长喜剧，而非一个抽象的艺术电影实验。
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