Headwind puzzled

Fabian 2022-04-21 09:02:23

I knew it wasn't going to be an easy story before I watched it, but I didn't expect it to be so meaningful.

The story begins with a young boy who wants to make a plane, his dream comes true, but what he makes is a tool of war. Experience the best love, but time does not allow them to be together for even a little longer. Such a blandness in just two hours, not to mention a relatively long life.

In this film, the suffering and greatness of a single person can be considered to be overcome and achieved through hard work, but the background color given by the entire historical era really makes people think of China without being able to help Japan.

I admit that I was probably over-brainwashed and never really thought about war from the point of view of a Japanese citizen or a Japanese aircraft engineer. But in the film, they design planes in a difficult environment, buy and learn German technology desperately, and are accused of plagiarism, complaining about why their country is so backward, and it is very difficult to get a little better in the end. I really couldn't help thinking of the Westernization Movement, the various things during the Republic of China, the two bombs and one star after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the crystallized bovine insulin. Every seemingly modest progress is filled with the mental, material and ethical struggles of countless people.

Recently, my uncle went to San Francisco on a business trip and sent me a photo, one of which was described as "Japanese breakfast". When I saw it, it was obviously a meal bag, croissant, butter, salad, a little scrambled eggs and potatoes. I couldn't help but reply to him, "This is obviously just breakfast in Japan, it's a proper European style." He replied to me again: "If you think that they have been entering Europe, you can understand. Japan is a very westernized country, I respect the Japanese very much, and I am very educated." After being

stunned for a long time, I suddenly thought of this paragraph:
"A country can waste ten or even fifty years, it doesn't matter, a The decline and demise of a country is not a big deal for human beings. If a country is unlucky, advancing and retreating, killing time, it can consume several generations; while people are different, waste ten years and basically destroy it. "The

aircraft designer in the movie was told at the beginning: just like an artist's inspiration is limited, usually only ten years, so do we aircraft engineers, so you have to make the most of this ten years. Ten years later, he really did.

Even if the historical background is sometimes incomprehensible against the wind, as small individuals, we often have no choice but to work hard to survive.

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The Wind Rises quotes

  • Caproni: Inspiration unlocks the future.

  • Caproni: Airplanes are beautiful dreams, engineers turn dreams into reality.