【心得】ef - a tale of memories.

故事可分為三條故事軸，三角關係跟追憶那段有點老生常談了；蓮治跟千尋的故事卻令人陶醉。千尋在十二歲那年遇上交通意外，自此記憶力出現問題，只能記下過去十三小時的事；到了第十四小時便會把當日第一小時發生的事忘掉。因此他每天寫日記﹑讀日記；因為怕給人麻煩，所以避免到人多的地方，不去上學，性格因此變得孤僻。長時間活在自己世界的千尋日復日，年復年做著相同的事，寫下相同的日記，讀著相同的日記。蓮治與他的相遇，改寫了他千篇一律的生活。有了蓮治的協助，千尋鼓起勇氣重新開始他放棄了三十一次的夢想－－寫一部小說。

全片很多地方用印象式的畫面呈現故事，容易令人眼睏。這故事很好，音樂也很相配，人物設定不俗，值得一看(話說我很少推薦4星評價的卡通)。

以下轉貼了故事中千尋寫的小說，也不錯看，蠻煽情的。

The girl is the only one in the world. That make her the god of this world.

She found herself on an island when she began to understand things around her. There was a mansion on the island, which was connected to an old castle by a passageway. She did not know why, for what purpose, those structures which completely seemed to be unfit in the environment that were built there. She did not need to know why. And besides, the girl never wondered why she had been there before she realize. There were a huge amount of preserved foods and daily necessaries inside the warehouse of the castle, so she did not have to starve (although she was hungry until she realized these were eatable). But she almost died several times because of sickness and injuries. In most cases, she almost got herself killed by eating either spoiled food or plants and inorganic things around her.

She used the mansion as a residential area, and almost never set her foot in the old castle. There was no particular reason to draw a line between the two structures. It was only a rational judgment that the old castle was unfit for her to live there. She had nothing to do. The island was small, and one could go around it in half a day by foot. All she could see at the beach was the ocean, the sky, clouds and the horizon stretching as far as she could see in a 360-degree view. That was the everything the world offered.

She painted a human being. It was good. But the girl did not feel like painting a human being in a bigger size. Because she was unable to judge whether it was well drawn or not. So she decided to add a figure of a boy into the paintings of landscape she had painted. Boy was added to all the paintings. With no specific reason, she started those paintings in the same places where she painted them. There was not single place in the mansion she did not paint. The boy was just standing straight in all the paintings. And the boy was looking straight ahead. It meant that the girl and the boy looked at each other every time she looked at the paintings. The girl had no feeling of achievement. Would he be a "human?" she thought. This was the "painting of a human being". She knew that from the very beginning. He did not move. She did not think. He was simple there, lonely? Finally, she could ask herself by finding the word. She was not lonely.The girl started practising by drawing her own portrait from the day after the wedding. There was only one human being on the side of the paintings.So, she started painting herself on the paintings.

On the other side of the paintings, the two had smiles on their faces. Still, the girl felt strange to see herself in the paintings. She could not find right words to describe her feelings. She did not really understand her emotion .But the paintings continued to capture her attendtion without making her bored for first time for month to come. The girl was alone in the world. That made her the god of this world.

Something mysterious happened.

It was the day after she repainted all of her paintings, hundreds in numbers. The two in those paintings had moved. But it did not startle the girl, because she had no idea asking herself whether it was abnormal or not. From the beginning, she was trying to make humans. "Did it work?" The god looked inside the miniature garden. She looked close at the paintings. It appeared that the other side of the paintings could not see the world on her side. The two in the pictures seemed to be doing something, smiling at each other. But the paintings were blured. The world itself appeared blured, giving her no clue to see what they were doing. Why, the girl thought.She could not confirm results. She could not see what was supposed to be there.A strange feeling developed in her mind.

She could not describe what it was. She could not find in a dictionary the defination of something she could not describe.She wondered why the paintings became blurred even though she painted them so clearly. Was it a failure? But the two in the paintings were smiling at each other. That was what her felt--which made her feel weird on the other side of the paintings. Something must have been wrong. I had understood things in the way, making mistakes repeatedly? She thought. She repaint them over and over. But the results were exactly the same. She was at a loss. She began to unsure of everything.

The girl is the only one in the world. So she thought she should make her world much cleaner. She burned all pictures. She set fire to the mansion and the old castle. Along with the structures, she burned all her memories. Lastly, the god threw the trash, the only trash left in the world, out from the cliff.