They flee Piccolo's workshop after the Fascist government attempts to hunt them down, because Rosso won't fight for his government.Īfter escaping from Milan, Porco flew to his hideout after a quick detour to get more gasoline for the plane. Initially Rosso is not pleased, but he grows to like her. A young girl, Fio Piccolo, ends up re-designing his plane. Due to the depression, Piccolo only as female workers, mostly from his family. Rosso survives but has to head to Milan on train. Having successfully defeated the pirates, the so called Mamma Aiuto Gang, Porco retires to the Hotel Adriano, which is run by his long-time friend Gina.Īt the restarurant an American named Curtis proposes to Gina, but she rebuffs him.Īfter Porco Rosso leaves to Milan, to make repairs to his plane, he is shot down by Curtis, who wants to achieve fame by killing Rosso. The film, set in the Adriatic Sea in the interwar period, begins with the titular character Porco Rosso, a veteran WWI fighter ace and freelance bounty hunter, responding to an alert over an attack on a ferry liner by airborne pirates. The gunship battles look awesome, which in a sense, is also a problem.Porco Rosso is a 1992 Japanese animated adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. eh.īut sure, it's still an interesting film.īut I'd also say Nausicaä (the manga, haven't seen the film) is more interesting take on some of the same questions, if you notice that Miyazaki tells an anti-war story, yet he is clearly in love with the airships whenever he draws them. The other main thing was the romance, which. But then what he was doing with the whole preceding two hours if there must be a monologue at the end? It didn't feel like a sign of good storytelling. The ending was beautiful, in a way, (especially if you've seen Porco Rosso), but on the other hand, Miyazaki had to have a character to spell out loud and clear the whole central ethical dilemma (airplanes are beautiful and the fighter airplanes are the most beautiful things, but they are used as horrible weapons of war). Somewhere in the uncomfortable zone of not being a total mess, but not very great either? flying) was great (as always with Miyazaki / Ghibli), but I thought as a serious film it was.
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