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/anime/41190/kaze-tachinu
Review of Kaze Tachinu
by Aaron Chuah
Posted on April 8th, 2019
Positive 10
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i don't know how to even begin reviewing this film. a declared swansong of perhaps the world's most iconic animator (apologies to the mickey fans out there -- there can't be that many remaining), this movie is unabashedly reflective and derivative: sweeping imagery of flying that launched him into flight as nausicaa's wind, porco with less porkiness, graveyard with fewer tears, cat returns' realismo-magico without the felines, poppy hill without the activism, and extending beyond his own works, the aviator without the madness & umbrellas of cherboug with more wind. however, when one inspects the artistic licence taken, ultimately this was a historic tale of a conflicted brilliant todai engineer who simply did what he did best -- and ended up instrumentally designing arguably the most aerodynamic weapon of ww2, but miyazaki swapped in (for romantic interest) instead the personal life of a struggling brilliant mit/princeton physicist (rpf) who was instrumental in designing ww2's most destructive weapon (the a-bomb). for this antidisneyfication, i feel almost cheated. jiro, the dreamy kid who went from zero to hero by making the zero, didn't really have such a tragic romance after all, in that sense i am relieved. but the tears the miyazaki tries to evoke through jiro & nahoko's personal struggle, belong to a different story; perhaps he deems that it belongs in every story, especially in the context of war & suffering all around. that said, this is one of the rare movies that stirs the audience into reflection. and for that, hayao shows that he still excels at what he does best: creating a sense of wonderment, no matter what the situation around is. two of his works that i remember most fondly, future boy conan & arietty the borrower, reflect this, as does this movie, with a title lifted from a french poem but intentionally bereft of its ending cadence (yet it is spattered often enough throughout the film): "il faut tenter de vivre!" and so we must.
Aaron Chuah
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