Recently, director Hayao Miyazaki exposed the production progress of his new work "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live". The work, which has been around for three years, was supposed to be released in 2019 as Miyazaki's claim to be the last animated film.
However, unfortunately, this time it is not to announce the completion of the film, the official production only 15% of the progress, 36 minutes can be said to be only 1 minute in 1 month.
Ghibli
According to netizens, it may take 7 or 8 years to complete. Is such a long wait worth the audience's wait? Three years and three years, but it did not erase the audience's expectations for this film, but it increased unabated, and the reason was only because it was Ghibli, just because miyazaki Hayao.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Hideaki Anno, who created Evangelion, and Oshii Mori, the director of Ghost in the Shell, have said, "It's a place like purgatory." It was Ghibli, who was like Purgatory, who created the world-renowned "Valley of the Wind", "Castle in the Sky", "Spirited Away" and other works.
Among them, many propositions full of connotations such as anti-war, environmental protection, and self-exploration have been analyzed by the public and film critics, but as an animated film, its essence is still to bring joy to teenagers.
Princess Mononoke
Once the release of "Princess Mononoke" made all sectors of society concerned about environmental protection, but when interviewing Miyazaki Hayao, he himself said that it was painted for children, and The old man said that adults seemed to understand it, thinking that they seemed to have caught a little tail, but in fact, they were confused.
His intention was that the children who had seen Princess Mononoke would go out and see for themselves in nature, rather than a group of adults surrounding the computer desk to discuss the environmental concepts in the work.
However, if Ghibli's production is only for teenagers to watch, it is too one-sided, Miyazaki hayao made an animated film only for adults to watch, "Porco Rosso".
Porco Rosso
The work deals with war, women, friendship, freedom, blue skies, and seas of clouds, as if these labels are not exactly what men seek to experience. Some people say that this work was taken by Miyazaki for himself, and I am willing to believe such speculation.
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(i) Middle-aged men are pigs
Polluk Rousseau was the ace pilot of the Italian Air Force, which followed the rise of fascism in the country. There are only two paths before Polluk, one for the fascist fatherland and one for the wanted snitch. And Polluk, who longed for freedom and did not want to support fascism, became a bounty hunter in the Aria Sea that existed between the two roads.
Produced in 1992, "Porco Rosso" coincided with the changes in the world political landscape in the early 1980s and the constant conflict in local areas, which caused a very strong stimulus to Miyazaki, and as a Marxist believer, this work became Miyazaki's voice.
However, it would be too much of a stretch to interpret Porco Rosso as an "anti-fascist" work. When Polluk was in the theater, his teammates hoped to come back to play for his country, and Polluk said: "It is better to be a fascist than a pig."
It's not that Polluk wants to do justice, otherwise he wouldn't have asked the snitch to take half of the gold coins and hostages when he was taken hostage by the snitch at the beginning of the film, he was pursuing freedom on the Ariatic Sea, but no one was there.
However, Polluk, who became a bounty hunter, knew that this was not a normal life, only a temporary measure, and could not respond to the feelings of her beloved woman Gina, and could only greet her from a distance every time, as if it was a middle-aged man's sense of crisis.
Miyazaki once said that "a middle-aged man is a pig"
Just like the contradictions caused by trivial things in daily life, love games? Secret base? Perhaps this is just a way for middle-aged men to escape from reality, but it is still difficult to make people feel a sense of belonging, tired of a stable and tedious family life, and lose the ambition of their youth. This is also why the younger generation can't love and can't understand the charm of "Porco Rosso", yes, a middle-aged man is a pig.
(ii) The time experienced is the maturity of a middle-aged man
"Porco Rosso" is not what Miyazaki used to please the public, after all, as the main character, Polluk is a pig, and fat and beer belly. Compared with today's "small fresh meat", it can be described as a "greasy middle-aged uncle".
This is very normal and reasonable, because even Leonardo DiCaprio (Little Plum), the male protagonist of "Titanic", as the Prince Charming of many girls at that time, it is difficult for everyone to accept it after entering middle age and being blessed.
When the red plane landed from the harbor, Polluk stepped down and crossed the wings to tip the port squat, and looked at the plane parked next to it with a sidepack painted with a sidepack — the Italian team had lost to the Lucky Sidewinder in two consecutive Slater Cup matches. But Polluk didn't look too hard, and then lit a cigarette to extinguish the firewood and looked at the light coming out of the bar window.
Why do I want to describe this humble plot so emphatically, just because this paragraph is natural, the content contained in the period can only be sighed and remembered by people who have real experienced it for a long time.
Friends
There's a passage in Friends when Monica asks Chandler to tip the waiter to get a quick seat. However, Chandler, who had not done so, repeated many times and could not gracefully tip the waiter.
It can be seen that a person's age and experience is not a mastery of anyone, the problem is not only in the skill and knowledge, to tip this is a lot of people know things, but how to give, how much to give without losing elegance but need to understand more sophistication.
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Often hear many people talk about the romantic stories in those romantic works of art, lingering pity and sad love, sometimes these romances will inadvertently appear in reality, 520 aerial confessions, the entire square is displayed "domineering president online show love" makes a city envious, between the sea and the sky at night, the building's light show has become a beautiful landscape, the name of the confession couple is the hegemonic floor lighting, in which the "I ❤ U" graphic is clearly outlined...
Qingdao Hisense Plaza
It's a romantic story, isn't it? If I were to be confessed to the girl, I would be very impressed, but if I were to do it, I could only shake my head.
When Polluk called Gina after the incident, he heard that Polluk was safe and had lost her husband as a pilot three times, crying and saying, "I don't want to have a funeral like that again." Polluk, who heard this, groaned a little and then replied, "A pig that cannot fly can only be an ordinary pig."
The life of a middle-aged man seems to have no story, no result, even if it is in how shocking the romance, there will be a slight fading after looking at the past.
Just as the young, beautiful and energetic girl Phil asked Polluk as she sighed at the light and the sea of clouds: what it was like to fly a pilot in the Adriatic. But she could only see the light passing through the mirror of Polluk's sunglasses, but she had no way of knowing what kind of look it was under her eyes.
Porco Rosso Gina
Women are very emotional creatures, but they are also more honest than men. When a woman says to you, "No need for you to be excellent, no need for you to be different, just need you to be with me...", when she says so, there is no need to doubt her sincerity. "If Polluk wasn't flying, wouldn't the whole thing turn around?" , but it doesn't make sense to say that. Women can easily if, but men can't, and that's exactly what, Polluk can't give up flying because of it.
As a man, it is impossible to respond only because of the woman's if, Polluk, as a pilot in pursuit of freedom, has always shown a gentlemanly, gentle self, and it is Poluk who has always released himself that seems so different to others.
But there are always "a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", and the image in the eyes of everyone is not beyond Polluk's control. But to give up the ego and not fly anymore is unacceptable to Polluk.
Polluk loved flying and took pride in it, lamenting the beauty of the world at a height far from the hustle and bustle.
As Miyazaki's artistic image, Polluk is not so different, has no money, no fame, is not "Porco Rosso" when not flying? Gina has not already said the answer, of course, if women can fully understand men, then there is no need for men to build anything, but I am afraid it is difficult to achieve. So our world continues, and Polluk still flies on the Ariatic Sea.
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Miyazaki's pursuit of the sky and his dream of flying can be read from "Castle in the Sky" and "Hal's Moving Castle", as Miyazaki's semi-autobiography, "Porco Rosso" is not only an animation, but also a reflection on all aspects of life:
About life
Polluk went to the bank to get a large pile of banknotes, which made the teller envious, and the white-collar workers who were bank employees were eager to exchange their lives with each other, saying "I really envy you, I also want to make so much money at once." But he failed to see that Polluk's suitcase full of banknotes had to pay off the airship loan, and there were thick bills to pay.
Life is more or less like this, people always unconsciously live in the imagination and expectations of others, which is difficult to say purely for their own or for the expectations of others, after all, people are eager to succeed but they are also afraid of failure. Others, on the other hand, are envious of the appearance of others, but ignore the embarrassment of others.
About love
Adult love, after losing its passion and dreams polished by life, simply says like and love. Even if there are others living in the heart, they are the forbearance of wanting to love and not being able to,
"If you're all right, it's sunny"
Since you know each other's life and death, you will continue to live your own lives. Polluk and Gina like each other, but they are inseparable. Polluk came to the bar every night in the night, listened to her sing, talked to her, but never went into her garden. The two accompany each other like old friends, ambiguous in the comfort zone, tentative but not piercing, this is the careful love of adults.
About Glory
You can not love your career, after all, you can do what you like is only a few lucky people, but you must be cautious about it, because it provides you with food, but also the embodiment of an ordinary person's own value and glory. If you remove your work, you don't know what is left because of the skills you know about your work? Your good family lineage? Or a legacy that fell from the sky? But these are not earned by themselves, and only immature children can do so.
Polluk witnessed the death of the battle, which made it difficult for him to be full of enthusiasm for flying, but the inertia of life has always pushed him forward, even if he does not want to fly, he must continue, because flying is already the means of his life, as Polluk said: "The pig that cannot fly can only be an ordinary pig."
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