I had another midweek journey to the cinema. It’s a nice thing to do. I enjoy the journey there, I enjoy the views near the cinema and I, hopefully, enjoy the film. While I’m waiting for the trailers to be over I read a book on my phone and at the moment I am reading about NASA’s contributions to flight since the inception of the NACA. I have completed the chapter about aerodynamics and this covered the contribution of Whitcomb including: the area rule for transonic drag reduction, the supercritical wing for transonic efficient flight, and the winglet to reduce induce drag. I’m now on a chapter about helicopters and NASA’s contributions to human knowledge about those machines.
For historical reasons I have to mention the state of the tidal part of the Medway here and I could see that the river was low so the tide was out. This seems to be the tidal-state for the last few times I’ve been to the cinema so I’m starting to think there might be a conspiracy. After watching this film I rated it on IMDb, there’s a communication here covering how the scoring works. While I was watching this film I really wanted to give it 8/10 because I really enjoyed it. But, according to my own rules I have to award it 6/10 because I’m probably not going to sit through it again.
I really enjoyed this film. It was touching, emotionally satisfying and overall just well made. There were a few times where I laughed out loud, the first time seemed inappropriate given that no-one else made a sound but I don’t care, it was funny. Japan looked amazing and even the rougher areas of Tokyo seemed exotic. It’s stunning to see Mount Fuji in the background of a few shots, I knew it was there but it’s shocking to see just how looming and pretty it is. The story of this film is happy and I enjoyed the characters journeys. It is a touching film that doesn’t moralise too much, although it does highlight the problems with strict social status and entrenched “traditional” views on society – I shan’t rant today.