Garden of Words film animation by Makoto Shinkai

I just recently watched this film... it's about two person meeting in a park ONLY during rainy morning. They do not know much about each other but the male protagonist in the course of their meeting fell in love with the female protagonist. As for the woman, she is unconsciously fell to the man but with in mind that they weren't meant to be. A star cross lovers perhaps?

But the film didn't evolve about the romance part, or I think that is after watching the movie. It is more on the growing up. As you can see, the meeting between the is a discussion mainly of the man and his dream. As for the woman, she listened and as she listen, she is piecing her life together.

The part which revealed this to me was the climax, where the man proposed to her and the woman rejected him as per the circumstance. The man got up and left. The woman tailed him, more like chased after him. After the dramatic scene of her running after him, she saw the man reflecting on what had happened. Then the man ranted and lashed out his anger towards her and her misfortune. Little did her know, it was his conversation with her, of him talking about his dream that made the woman realize of what she was missing in her life.

"You saved me," the woman cried as she hugged the man. The sky rained as her own eyes, rained on with the sky.

He saved her... but how? As you can see, the first time they met, she was down. To the point perhaps she was feeling suicidal, though it wasn't revealed in the film. But him talking about his dreams. No matter how silly the dream of the man is, he is continuing on while she on the other hand have given up.

He gave her hope. It wasn't love that mattered at that time, in my opinion. But hope.

The film ended with the woman elsewhere doing a career she pursued and the man on the same meeting place that they were. Only did he mentioned that he a lot more walking to do himself just like the woman.

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If only the Firefly King have existed, he would take the shoes to the woman, and give them possibility of being in contact with each other. And perhaps let them meet once more on that same park. Make it rain in the winter season, just so the two of them meet once more. Of having that star crossed romance happen.

But either way, I'm glad it ended that way. I guess, after the film ended. I've understood a bit of life. I'm glad I watch the film.