Thursday, March 20, 2014

Kaze tachinu (The Wind Rises)

The dreams of a modest principled hard working youth patiently materialize in Hayao Miyazaki's Kaze tachinu (The Wind Rises), an animated account of a brilliant Japanese aeronautical engineer whose poetical mathematics helped remodel Japan's aviation industry.

The frame insulates a wise psychological stratagem for growing and changing during tumultuous times, within Jirȏ Horikoshi's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) mind, and provides him with the strength to go-with-the-flow as hardships, sicknesses, and political aggressions challenge his strong sense of self.

He grew up in the years leading up to World War II and had to helplessly sit back while his designs were co-opted by the military.

The film doesn't shy away from exploring technological testaments to militaristic miscues.

Horikoshi has to hide for a time as jingoistic agents grow suspicious of his activities.

This aspect of the film fades without receiving enough attention.

I'm supposing the pre-war years were quite oppressive as indicated by Horikoshi's attempts to converse with less fortunate citizens who are frightened by his humble offering of sponge cake.

Research and development processes and workplace pastimes are a recurring feature as his dreams become a reality through the application of diligent trials and errors.

Love fills-out the creative cure, as a respectful romance energizes his designs.

Kaze tachinu offers innocent industrious insights into a dedicated upright life of work and study whose successes and failures are stoically articulated.

Romance, rewards and retinues refine his tragic pursuit of innovation, his revered reveries, seek, search, discover; apply; install.

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