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REVIEW OF

THE WIND RISES

The Wind Rises was released on July 20, 2013 in Japan. The film tells
the life of Jiro Hirokoshi, an aeronautical engineer known for being the
person most responsible for many of the Japanese fighter designs
during World War II. Jiro designed, among others, the zero fighter plane
used in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The film focuses on important
historical events that marked Jiro’s life, such as the Kanto earthquake
in 1923, the Great Depression in 1929, the tuberculosis epidemic and
the beginning of World War II in 1939. Added to this is the love
relationship between Jiro and Naoko Satomi, a young woman who
survived with him in the earthquake and with whom, years later, he will
meet again.
As of today, this is the last film that Miyazaki directed with Studio Ghibli.
Seen from that perspective, it is even poetic that his last film in his long
time talks about making our dreams come true. That concludes the
fundamental value of The Wind Rises: the search for our purpose in life.
Although, on the other hand, the film also
explores the contradiction between those
creations that we conceive in the service
of social well-being; and that, finally, are
used for destructive purposes. The
segmentation between the hopeful
expectation of an innocent child, and the
cruel reality of a dark world.