Film Review: The Wind Rises (2013) is a fittingly bittersweet swan song for director Hayao Miyazaki. While initially jarring, Miyazakis unapologetic deviations from fact help the film to transcend the linearity of its expected structure, the film eventually revealing itself to be less of a biopic than it is a devastatingly honest lament for the corruption of beauty, and how invariably pathetic the human response to that loss must be. Miyazaki’s films are often preoccupied with absence, the value of things left behind and how the ghosts of beautiful things are traced onto our memories like the shadows of a nuclear fallout, and the film looks back as only a culminating work can. A visually sumptuous celebration of an unspoiled prewar Japan. What Miyazaki offers is a layered look at how Horikoshis passion for flight was captured by capital and militarism, and the film is Miyazakis most ambitious and thought-provoking vision as well as one of his most beautifully realized visual projects. In conclusion, it is a worthy final chapter and a great send-off to a legendary filmmakers career. Also, perhaps the greatest animated film ever made. Overall, it receives 5/5 stars!
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:22:46 +0000
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