After book VS movie

Description: Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

Initial release: 11 April 2019 (Germany)

Director: Jenny Gage

Box office: 6.95 crores USD

Producers: Anna Todd, Meadow Williams, Mark Canton, Jennifer Gibgot, Courtney Solomon, Aron Levitz, Dennis L. Pelino.

Production  Production companies: Voltage Pictures, Offspring Entertainment

   

      
  The After movie makes major changes to the story of Tessa Young & Hardin Scott from the original book by Anna Todd. There's the scene at the lake, where Hardin offers Tessa a peak behind his typically guarded nature, and Tessa deal with the aftermath of Hardin drunkenly smashing up his father's house. The movie also includes the scene of Hardin's father's wedding, where Tessa learns about his family's troubled past. After even adapts, albeit loosely, the storyline of Hardin and Tessa moving in together. There are also changes to the character of Hardin and the ending of the story.

Hardin is incredibly manipulative and emotionally abusive of Tessa. He attempts to control all aspects of her life, getting her an internship off-campus, coming in-between Tessa and her high school boyfriend, all while treating her cruelly. In the book, Hardin convincing Tessa to move in with him is more clearly a sign of his manipulation and an attempt to keep Tessa away from his friends. It all comes to a head at the very end, when it's revealed Hardin's friends dared him to take Tessa's virginity, and she learns that their entire relationship was built on a lie. Then the book ends on a cliffhanger with their relationship in ruins and Tessa devastated by Hardin's betrayal.

After the movie works a great deal to remove the abusive nature of Hardin's behavior and treatment of Tessa; he's less cruel than in the book and more respectful of her boundaries. Early on, when he asks her out and she says no, he takes that no at face value. Though she changes her mind almost immediately, it's her decision. The movie gives Tessa more agency in general, which works to balance out the dynamic of her relationship with Hardin. And although Tessa becomes consumed by Hardin, it's all by her own choosing, rather than as manipulation of Hardin. But After doesn't shy away from the third act reveal that Hardin built his relationship with Tessa on a lie. Instead of being dared to take her virginity, though, it's revealed he told his friends that he'd make Tessa fall in love with him and he'd just turn off his feelings for her. This declaration is captured on video and shared with Tessa toward the end of the movie.

the After film adaptation sees Tessa deal with the devastation that results from the revelation. She repairs her relationships with her mother and her high school ex-boyfriend, who's also her best friend. She moves back into her old room. She also proactively works to make her life better, changing her major to be something she enjoys rather than something practical and getting an internship on her own. The movie ending also holds Hardin accountable for his actions. What he did to Tessa isn't OK, and the movie never frames his actions as simply a consequence of falling in love, which in the book it arguably does. Rather, in the movie, it's a hard lesson that Tessa learns about putting her trust and love in someone she doesn't fully know yet. And, though Hardin attempts to win Tessa back, the movie ends on a cliffhanger of a different kind, leaving it open-ended about whether Tessa will choose to ultimately forgive him.

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SYNOPSIS

Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.

DIRECTOR: MAKOTO SHINKAI

BACKGROUND

Byousoku 5 Centimeter was completed on January 22, 2007. The first of three parts was available for streaming on Yahoo! Japan exclusively for its premium users between February 16 and 19. The complete film was released on March 3, 2007.

The film won the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

If you have already watched the movie, then you are welcome below. If not, SPOILER ALERT!

EPISODE 1: CHERRY BLOSSOM

The movie starts with cherry blossoms falling and the character saying that the speed at which cherry blossoms fall, it’s five centimeters per second. Then the two kids namely Akari and Takaki run down the lane and gets separated in a railway crossing. Before bidding goodbye, Akari wished to see the cherry blossom again with Takaki next year.

Takaki is seen reading a letter, probably from Akari. In the letter, she wrote about summer and their last time together at their elementary school graduation. It has already been half a year and she wonders if takaki still remembers her.

It is the end of autumn, and takaki is seen reading another letter from Akari. A senpai interrupts him. She wanted to know if it is true that takaki is transferring schools. Takaki agrees and says he will change at the end of the year, to Kagoshima because of his parents. Takaki continues reading Akari’s letter where she talks about the changes she had and jokes how takaki won’t recognise when he sees her.

Takaki is sitting in a bench exhausted with his friends during P.E. when he casually asks them if they have ever been to Tochigi. He wondered how to get there. Apparently, Akira is in Tochigi. She moved there upon graduating from elementary school.

In another letter, Akari finally learns about Takaki’s transfer and expresses that she feels a little lonely because Kagoshima is a little far away and it would no longer be a distance where she can just jump on a train and see him whenever she wants.

They decided to meet each other on MARCH 4TH.

Takaki befriended Akari when she transfered to his elementary school in Tokyo. They had similar interests and attitudes which resulted in them growing closer to each other. They liked reading the same books and they preferred the library over playing on the sports field due to their seasonal illness. They were often teased by their friends for being together but as long as they had each other, things like that didn’t scare them. Their seperation was painful for both of them.

 

He received the first letter from Akari half a year later, during the summer of his first year of middleschool. He remembers every word last word of it. Over the two weeks before the day they were to meet, he spent his entire time writing a letter he could give her. It was filled with all the things he had to tell her. All the things he wanted her to hear. There were so many.

On the day, they were to meet, the rain turned into snow in the afternoon.

The train was delayed at every station and soon their agreed time passed. The unfamiliar place, slowy ticking time and hunger was trying to dampen his spirit. He also had a feeling that Akira was beginning to worry. In the Oyama station, he learnt that his next train will be delayed for more several hours, he decided he has no choice but to keep heading towards the station where Akira is waiting.

When he was about to buy a coke from the vending machine, his letter slipped from his pockets and was carried away by the wind.

 

Due to disrupted schedule from the heavy snowfall, the train had to make a temporary stop. But in the end, the train remained stopped in the barren wilderness for two hours. He was hoping that Akari had already returned home.

When Takaki reached their agreed place, he was suprised to find Akari still waiting there. He went near her and called her. When she saw him, she couldn’t stop her tears and they both started crying. It was a long journey, afterall.

 

They had dinner (most delicious rice balls) together and roasted tea. They strolled through the night. They had their first kiss under the cherry tree.

He felt like he knew where eternity, their hearts and their souls all lay. He felt as though he had shared all the experiences of his 13 years and in the next moment he was filled with an insufferable sadness. He knew that they wouldn’t be together forever. The overwhelming weight of their lives to come and the uncertainity of time hung over them. They spent that night in a shack by the back of the field, wrapping themselves in an old blanket, they talked on and on and on…

The next morning as he boarded the train, he parted with Akari.

He never told Akari that he had lost the letter, he wanted to give her because he felt that his words were completely changed after that kiss while Akari silently looks at her own letter addressed to Takaki. All he wanted was the strength to protect her and with that thought in his mind, he continued to gaze out over the landscape beyond the window….. forever.

It tells a very beautiful romance story revolving around the lives of two people. It can be incredibly depressing and heartbreaking at times, and yet it also has genuine moments of heartwarming mixed in too. Filled with beautiful animation styles, it takes the viewers on a deeply introspective journey.

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Being a child

Recently I have seen many posts like the need for war, terrorism, revolution, how without those terrorists our existence wouldn’t be possible, etc, etc.  I am getting so  frustrated and irritated that whenever these kinds of posts pop in my newsfeed, I want to make the writer sit and ask,

Have you ever experience war?

Have you ever been in one?

Were you present when the terrorist attacked?

Do you have any idea how many people have died because of war and terrorism?

Are you sick or a sadist?

Are you illiterate?

Haven’t you learnt anything from the past that war doesn’t solve anything, only brings death and suffering to the people?

You want a revolution, do you know how much the economy of a country is affected by war?

Do you know how much the country will suffer?

Maybe your intentions are not wrong, you are thinking about the welfare of the people. But I think anything which brings sufferings to the people whether he is a hindu, a muslim, a christian or maybe a sikh, an assamese, a bengali, a nepali or a marwari is wrong. They are all human. How can you forget that?  I can’t beleive the customs and beliefs are so deep rooted in us that even the youths of todays generation still discriminates people on the basis of caste and religion.

People still can’t accept inter-caste marriage. They still have the feeling of mistrust, disloyalty when they mingle with people of other caste. At face value, he is friends with everyone but inside he is recoiling and making sarcastic comments about them. I don’t think any caste or religion is superior than the others. I think we  are just afraid that if people of different background mingle with each other, the original lineage will be lost. Also, man’s thirst for power made them critisize each other in order to prove who is superior among them.

People of  every origin has some idiots who is a dishonour to them. But we can’t judge everyone based on the idiots. They are idiots not because of their caste or religion. They are idiots just because they are idiots. Not all people are like those idiots. It is not right to hate the whole religion or caste just because you hate those idiots. And if you are a human killing them is not an option. I can’t imagine how can that thought even cross a person’s mind.

A 21 year old boy said that I am a child. I can’t understand these things. I am too small to know the importance of #ULFA ( a terrorist group in Assam). I don’t know reality. Maybe I am not an adult. I don’t have much experience in practical life. Tomorrow I will complete 16 bitter- sweet years on earth. But if being an adult means being a moron, bunking college classes, long bike rides, drinking and smoking at the end of the day, fighting, no rational thinking, writing posts about supporting terrorist groups, critisizing politicial groups, challenging people of other backgrounds into a fight, thinking violent activities like war or terrorist attack will solve economic problems just because it will bring a change in the government. If all those things means being an adult, I am happy being a child. I am not saying I am 100% right or I know everything. Maybe that terrorist group had contributed a lot for the welfare of the  Assamese people, but I can’t accept the thought of supporting them because they are killers. They are also responsible for the bomb blast and the death of hundreds of people. So, no I had rather be a child than indulge myself in violent activities and think my friends are my foe just because they follow a different religion.

“Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things.To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know a childish person, is to know a very immature person. To know childlikeness is to know original wisdom; to know childishness is to know original error. And there are many children more mature than adults, many adults less mature than children.”
C. JoyBell C.

Those people who thinks that violence is all and the solution to every problem should just watch NARUTO. It is funny how an anime series can teach people all the important values of life. Maybe that is the reasons why children are so innocent. They know how to love. But as we grow, we get involved in hateful, violent activites. We think watching cartoon is childlish and forget all the important things we learnt from it.
So, people who forgot all about love. Please watch NARUTO. Watch him believe in himself and his friends. Watch him fighting for peace. Watch him spreading love and uniting people. Watch him forgiving every people who did wrong to him. Watch how love can change everything. You will be amazed, inspired and motivated at the end beyond doubt.

These are according to me. Please comment and let me know what do you think about it. whether you agree or disagree? and please let me know about my mistakes.

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