A very difficult creation

Hayao Miyazaki: I'm about three times more interested in weapons and armor. But I'm neither a plane fan nor a tank fan. Most of what I care about is what it sounds like when a tank gets shot, who is horrified by the person sitting in the tank and the person watching from the outside, etc. I may be full of contradictions. But this is impossible. People without contradictions are probably boring people.

The work was as difficult to create as it was to be critiqued. In my opinion, "the wind is blowing, try to live" or "the cursed dream" is not really the core of the story. The creative motivation for the origin of this story is more of Hayao Miyazaki's incomparable love for flying tools and his admiration for aircraft designers.

This kind of feeling can only be experienced by people who can immerse themselves in some kind of aesthetic taste. For example, the delicacies and wines encountered by gourmets, the peerless masterpieces encountered by artists, and a more appropriate example are the heartfelt admiration of the beautiful formulas and their inventors by mathematical researchers. "She is so beautiful".

Inspired by Toshio Suzuki, Miyazaki, who is more than ten years old, decided to do such a difficult work.

Too difficult. Because it is a realistic story, it cannot get rid of the existing methodology of biographical films. The film uses three sets of narrative techniques that do not align with each other: the romantic flight fantasy of the jeepney sign (reminiscent of Howl's castle, the little white dragon, the red pig, or the little witch's broom) through the dreams of an Italian count Showa; a showa scroll with nostalgia and the style of the times; the most basic biographical story can only be narrated in fragments, and the love line (in the absence of a better way) is used as an important bridge and climax of the whole film. The entire film also needs to carefully eschew the war scene and its associated historical perspective, especially given Miyazaki's own anti-war stance. This original meaning of the story of how great designers put their hearts and souls into creating beautiful flying machines has sadly turned into a hodgepodge.

Of course, with Hayao Miyazaki's skill, it is not difficult to keep the whole film at a consistent level and leave ripples as always. But compared with Kubrick, who left a god-level posthumous work like "Eyes Open", this film cannot be regarded as the most perfect ending.

PS: Even if you don’t want to talk about politics, the scene of a huge strategic bomber flying over a curved river and a sea of ​​fire below can’t shake off the feeling of the Chongqing bombing anyway.

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