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saviour2012
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Saddletank
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Porco is my second favourite Ghibli after Whisper of the Heart, though I'm biased because I find the historical and mechanical aspects of it interesting. I have a love of Italy and flying, and an interest in military subjects so the basic setting puls me in and involves me before anything else much happens.
I feel especially uplifted watching the flying scenes in Porco, I don't think Miyazaki has animated better airborne sequences anywhere else; the sequence of Porco taking off and travelling across the islands in the middle of the film seems to be not only giving us breathtaking images but paints us Porcos character as he goes, a man alone and vulneraable, always travelling, both physically and looking for something inside himself, I get quite emotionally tangled up in that one 'simple' sequence.
The juxtaposition of the comedic aspects (air pirates) against 1920s fascist Italy and the sinister sides of it that are hinted at really bite at me and the up and down emotional ride is another of the things that make this one o fmy favourite movies.
On top of that we have romance too, which if you've never experienced it, will mean you miss big chunks of what's happening and why, the long flash-back told story of his pre-war love is mixed up with hesitant reluctant connections with Fio and the ending is a lovely one that lays many ghosts to rest.
Its a superb movie and it deserves to be better known.
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San Toelle Ul Shichikokuyama-g
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I love the movie, animation, and the underlying lesson/moral thing. Plus, I was obsessed with pigs when I was little and firt saw it...
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saviour2012
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quote:
Originally posted by Saddletank
On top of that we have romance too, which if you've never experienced it, will mean you miss big chunks of what's happening and why, the long flash-back told story of his pre-war love is mixed up with hesitant reluctant connections with Fio and the ending is a lovely one that lays many ghosts to rest.
Its a superb movie and it deserves to be better known.
i would say i got it and at the same time did not get it.
i think the point is misinterpreted, porco with fio is just stupid. [and i am banned as a future ghibli staff forever because as far as i know miyazaki had a quarrel with a important staff about it and he went away(probably anno)] but i feel fio is being more like asuka in nge...... and now i am getting a feeling that you girls likes to cling on older boys than that are similar to their age[is it really?] it is cool that you agreed ending is great but it can not be popular specially to kids.
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Saddletank
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I see no problem with the Fio/Porco relationship. Nothing is spelled out at all, little is even spoken and much of it is just implied. Such as the awkwardness in the swimming scene at Porco's island home.
There's the traditional friction of an older experienced man doubting the skills of a young woman in aeronautical engineeering, and there's the mentor/father figure that Porco forms for Fio. All traditional things, but in this film never explored, just offered to the viewer to consider.
Miyazaki could have made things much more implicit but he didn't, he left a few small hints of things, of people's thoughts and emotions and left it there. Its a miniscule part of the film but its there and I like it, its another part that lets you sit back and draw your own 'what ifs'.
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