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That was an excellent one.

I'll tell you why so serious

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Hayao Miyazaki really could work with different genres. This is the only one I can think of that's completely normal. It seems more obvious that a lot of normal stuff is based on a true story. I admit that I probably thought this was the weakest movie he did. Granted, it's still awesome! As Doug Walker would say, I'd rather watch the worst Miyazaki film than the best Michael Bay film.The best part is probably the love story. I really was interested in how well of a role that played. Of course, as other people might have guessed, a lot of the events of the real person's life were fictionalized. I guess I was just thinking that a movie taking place in World War II would feature a lot more action. It still worked great as like "Argo", it showed a lesser known story about a lesser known person who wasn't right in on the action. Of course the animation is fantastic. ***1/2

Jiro Horikoshi is a young boy who dreams of flying machines. In 1918, he's given a magazine and he starts admiring Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni. Caproni would be in his dreams as he works to design advanced planes. There is a massive earthquake and subsequent fires which devastates Tokyo. Jiro helps Nahoko and her mother. Banks are closing and the economy is collapsing. Kids are starving but Jiro gets a job at aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi with his friend Honjo. When their plane Falcon is rejected, they are sent to Germany to study Junkers' designs. They return to Japan to produce the most advanced fighters in the world for the military despite being behind and much poorer than Germany. There are the secret police and the mysterious anti-war Castorp. Jiro would meet again the love of his life Nahoko.The great filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki returns to deliver the fictionalized historical biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the Zero. There is a simple beauty and an ever-present sadness to this movie. I didn't know the subject of this movie but it becomes obvious that the timeline is converging on a delicate era. It fills the movie with a sense of inevitable doom.

Hayao Miyazaki had made many magical, fascinating animated motion pictures in his lifetime with Studio Ghibli. Some of these fantasy films include Spirited Away, Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, and The Cat Returns. His last film, The Wind Rises, was recently released, and is like none of his previous animations. In the other movies, the characters are set in a bizarre, surreal, magnificent world on an unusual mission. In The Wind Rises, however, there is no unseen, amazing world. Rather, the story is set in Japan, and it revolves around an airplane designer, Jiro Horikoshi. What Miyazaki does to bring the story to life is focus and discover the beauty in times most people don't see beauty. For example, work can be drudgery and an annoying aspect of life. However, Miyazaki sees work as a time of inspiration and an opportunity to display one's skills. The rain can be gross and make one feel dank, but Miyazaki sees it as a beautiful experience and an opportunity to hold close to a loved one under a small umbrella. By focusing on the different views, Miyasaki had made The Wind Rises just as enchanting as his surreal animations. The Wind Rises is extremely captivating in animation and thought. The story was based on true events, so it was realistic, yet it shows that life can be fantastic when looked at in the right perspective. In this picture, Jiro Horikoshi has vivid dreams of designing airplanes throughout his life. Along his journey, he faces a devastating Japanese earthquake and later meets his soul mate, who was dying. In the end, Jiro builds the "Zero" jet, later reminiscing about the creation and speaking sadly by the thousands of deaths caused by the "Zero" planes in the military. This film elicits giggles, smiles, and tears, getting to the hearts of the people.

My expectations made this film a little less thrilling than it might have been; still I am pleased to have seen it.Jiro, a plane designer, lives a rather mundane and ordinary life. He dreams of becoming a creator of planes, and takes inspiration from those before him. The Wind Rises captures the will and person of Jiro as he learns what it means to be an artist of planes. Characters in this movie are sparse and mostly undeveloped, but they are still endearing and easy to understand. I watched the English dubbed version of the movie and so some of the acting was (I know it can't be helped) a little offsetting. It was tolerable. I can say i grew attached to the simple characters whose role was not so much to describe certain people but to characterize certain attitudes about the history and culture. Perhaps I watched this movie hoping for more permanent, particular people, but I understand that the movie did not serve to show them in that way.The most incredible part of the film was the artistic choices Miyazaki dared to make. I didn't like the movie too much because it was slow and very quiet-- this however creates an effect much like the wind. The wind heavily influences the flow and dynamic of the piece, and so it became a canvas moved by the delicate hands of life. What I wanted to see in this movie, however, was a little more depth of narrative. The movie is not for those who come to see a mentally riveting production, and I think that is perfectly fine. The point of the movie is to posit a historical piece of information, and like all history, lay down a thesis of life. Life is passing, quick, and cannot be seen so much as it has to be felt. But we know when we feel it.Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" is a diligent piece of art.