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by Kionon » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:50 pm
I came.
Twice.
Reasons:
5 CM per second.
Romance Video.
Living in Japan.
This impacted me much more than Cherished Memories, but that isn't actually something you did, so I can't give you credit for it. I thought the editing itself was a bit rougher than Infinity's. However, when I saw Cherished Memories, I didn't live in a rural part of Kyoto-fu. Now that I do, and I teach in a rural school district, the imagery has so much more personal meaning to me. Unfortunately, you only get a first impression once, so even rewatching Cherished Memories did not produce the kind of emotional effect, because I already knew scene order and what to expect.
With your video, watching it the first time and really paying attention to what I saw... the scenery for the memories.... could have well been Fukuchiyama, where I live. The trains, the apartments, the roads, the fields, the mountains... With your video, I felt it could be happening outside my apartment, perhaps in the area around Oe or Mikawa. This added a depth of reality to your video that kicked my ass and took names. Again, this is something you could not have known or intended, but you still brought out the source material through your song choice and your editing. I felt you accurately portrayed the feelings of the characters, and the editing really displays the concept of distance, between each other, and between rural and urban Japan, which might be beside each other, and yet are, in my experiences thus far, worlds apart.
Good fokken job.
Even if it is not something special or different, it is still nice to watch it now and then (not only one time - the first time) 
4/5 for me, and I'll maybe keep it in my comp to watch it sometimes 
It's too fast to be part of the vid, but maybe I am wrong ^^
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