If you liked Your Name, the movie by Makoto Shinkai we talked you about last January, then you should not miss another movie by the same director, out in Italy for a special event scheduled for 11st and 12nd of April! Thanks to Nexo Digital, in fact, we can watch in Italian theatres The Place Promised in Our Early Days, the first full feature film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. We watched it: here’s why you should do it as well!
A mysterious and nostalgic story
The protagonists of The Place Promised in Our Early Days are three friends united by a dream: to fly their plane by the mysterious tower on Hokkaido Island, a construction so tall it seems lost in the sky. Their happy days however end abruptly with the disappearance of one of them. In the background, there’s a war that threatens to erupt at any moment and that seems to have at its centre the strange and high tower. What’s its purpose? And why friends that seemed inseparable have now taken different roads?
Science fiction meets feelings
The true nature of the tower is unveiled really slowly, with clues that led us to the second act of the movie, when everything becomes clear. The passage to the melancholic first part the second one maybe is a bit abrupt, but the sci-fi implications don’t take over the most delicate and dramatic aspects of the story. Until the end, The Place Promised in Our Early Days it’s the story of three kids, their friendship and their dream.