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When I was a child, I watched "Porco Rosso" and thought it was a romantic love story of a hero and a beauty.
Looking at it now, I found that the protagonist Poluk, the pig who piloted the red plane, is very much like us who have been extinguished by reality in front of the screen but have not given up.
Hayao Miyazaki has always said that he makes movies for children. But I feel that people who are no longer children need Miyazaki's films more than children.
Because in the eyes of children, it is natural to be treated gently by the world.
Just like the beginning of the movie "Porco Rosso", the female students who were hijacked by the air thieves had almost no concept of good and bad people, and they became hostages themselves but were not afraid at all, looking at everything with a game mentality, turning the air thief's flying machine into a playground.
And the bad guys in the cartoon are really as good-tempered as the girls expect, and they don't tie them up when they are caught, but let them crawl around in the cabin, hindering the fight and talking cool things.
And when adults see this, they will feel a**. Because not to mention the bad guys who expect gentlemen, even the good guys who meet gentlemen can be regarded as a small fortunate era," The two words "* are destined to be firmly bound to adults who have been wounded by life."
Porco Rosso is special, he is one of the few middle-aged protagonists in Miyazaki's writings, another heroic profession - a bounty hunter who fights air thieves, and the only character in an anime movie with a full human form to show a pig's face.
At the very beginning, the movie answered the audience's questions through the mouth of the beautiful barmaid because of the curse.
But unlike the frog prince we are familiar with, there is no witch-like character from beginning to end, shouldering the task of cursing Porco Rosso, which is actually a hint to the audience that not being a human and becoming a pig is the choice of pilot Marco Pagote.
Porco Rosso takes place in the intervening period between the end of World War I and the brewing of World War II. During World War I, Porco Rosso was Marco and was a member of the Italian Air Force.
In the summer when the war was about to end, Marco and Gina's newlywed partner, his good brother Bellini, were on a reconnaissance mission when they encountered a German flying formation.
After a fierce battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties.
Porco Rosso does not use realism to restore the tragic scene of the pilot's crash, but chooses to use a dreamlike scene to show the cruelty of war - the exhausted Marco crosses the clouds and opens his eyes in the plain of the sea of clouds, he looks up and sees a shining Milky Way under the sky, which is composed of the deceased pilot and his aircraft.
Bellini, who died in this battle, rose high into the sky at the shouts of Marco and became a star in that galaxy.
This galaxy may be the best destination for the pilot's soul, but the countless star spots show the insignificance and powerlessness of human beings in the face of war.
What will Gina do after you're gone?Bellini could not answer this question.
Gina, who was left behind, seemed to be living a good life, worry-free about food and clothing, and a woman loved by all sea pilots in the Adriatic.
Only when she was with Porco Rosso in private did she reveal her true emotions, "I've been waiting for three years, and my tears have dried up." ”
This time, it was not Bellini who was waiting, but her third husband.
After Bellini's death, Gina went through two more marriages, both to pilots, one in the Atlantic Ocean and the other in Asia.
A brutal trivia fact, during World War I, the average mortality rate of pilots from all countries participating in the war was as high as 16%, and the mortality rate in large-scale offensive operations was close to 100%.
The statistics that are difficult to perceive in peacetime are the heavy reality revealed in the film.
When Poluk heard that Gina already knew about the death of her third husband, she sighed, "The good guys are dead."
And he who did not die, he was also the one who was left behind, and his choice was not to be a man and to become a pig.
Not continuing to be human means not being bound by human rules.
An ace pilot with skilled flying skills, rich combat experience, and survival in World War I, no country will want to give up.
But if you continue to serve in the Italian Air Force, it means joining the fascist camp, working for the country and politics, not knowing if you will be able to see the sun tomorrow, and you will not know if your teammates who are fighting together will be able to return together.
Porco Rosso, who survived the war, has doubts about his life choices and about the career he was once proud of.
That's why people say Porco Rosso was made for frustrated middle-aged men.
But today, the progress bar of life has been stretched a lot faster, and the state of losing ideals and falling into confusion has long been advanced.
After a year or two of being beaten by work, many people realize that there is almost no difference between ideals and fantasies, and that it is better to be driven by ideals than by money.
How much money there is, how much effort is contributed, like Poluk who picks and chooses his work on an uninhabited island.
After recognizing the reality and becoming completely disillusioned with humanity caught up in the frenzy of war, Marco renounces his human identity and chooses to become a pig who is not bound by the state and the law.
He continued to fly planes, but instead worked as a bounty hunter, earning commissions by capturing air thieves. In fact, most of the air thieves and bounty hunters are retired pilots, tired of the senseless bloodshed and sacrifice in the war, some choose to be unjust air thieves, some choose to make money by capturing them, the only common thing is to make money, no longer have to fight to the death.
When withdrawing money from the bank, the teller advised Poluk to buy some love treasury bonds, but he refused without thinking, "This kind of thing is only suitable for people to do."
During the war, many countries launched national bonds dedicated to war expenses, and the bonds and patriotic sentiment were raised, and the act of buying bonds to contribute to the country became an invisible responsibility of citizens under the deliberate propaganda of the state. And Porco Rosso, who decisively refused, naturally became the object of contempt for bank employees.
But the closer one is to the war, the easier it is to break away from extreme patriotic sentiments. In response to a question, the shopkeeper said, "The guy who makes his fortune from the war is a wicked person, and the guy who can't earn a bounty is a waste."
However, after becoming a pig, can you isolate everything in human society and live freely?
The truth is that when you abandon your country and your political position, the country will also abandon you, and Poluk is wanted by his own country, and when he returns to Milan to repair his plane, he will be targeted by the fascist secret police.
Former comrade-in-arms Ferrarin spoke out in the cinema about the consequences of "being a pig", "You are guilty of anti-state non-cooperation, smuggling, and decadent thinking, and you are a shameless and lazy pig, and your obscene arrest warrants are posted everywhere." ”
And in the face of his comrades-in-arms' invitation to return to the Air Force, he still firmly chose to continue to be a pig.
That is until he meets Phil, a young aircraft mechanic.
In a sense, Phil is like Marco when he was young, and his love and seriousness for flying machines allowed her to stay up all night until she made a repair plan that satisfied Poluk.
The innocence and purity in her not only moved Poluk, making him agree that Phil was in charge of maintaining the plane, but even loosened his already disappointed in humanity.
In Poluk's eyes, Phil represents the next generation who will create the future and determine its direction. That's why I said to her, "When I see you, I feel that there is still hope for mankind."
That's why only in front of Phil, he briefly changed back to his human appearance.
Turning back into a human being means no longer being confused, no longer escaping, and a new round of growth – you can be disappointed in reality, but you will always be hopeful for the future.
At the end of the movie, Phil unexpectedly kisses Poluk, and he panics and runs to his own aircraft, behind which is the American pilot who shouts "let me see your face".
The movie has an open-ended ending, and whether Porco Rosso has changed back into a human is the biggest suspense left by the film to the audience.
I'd rather believe that he's turned back into a human and is with Gina, who has been waiting for him for a long time.
Not because I like happy endings, but because Miyazaki's stories are always hopeful.
Hayao Miyazaki has said that his film is to tell children who feel "why should I be born" that the world is worth living.
The kiss of true love, which on the surface resembles the routine of the "Frog Prince", in my opinion, it is not love that really dissolves the spell, but rekindles the long-extinguished hope for life in Porco Rosso's heart.
However, after the re-release of the film, another voice emerged.
Porco Rosso's not tall and handsome image design, coupled with the preference of two cute female characters for him, made some viewers disgusted and questioned that the whole film was the lust of failed middle-aged men.
Click on the latest comment area of Douban's rating, and you can see the two worlds that are separated.
One of the worlds, as it has been for the past thirty years, took solace from this work, briefly escaping from real life and taking a breather.
At the end of the year, shareholders began to quarrel endlessly for interests, and all kinds of hearts and minds were tireless. Hide at home and watch the movie, okay**.
The other world is full of negative emotions such as "anger", "doubt", and "dissatisfaction", saying that it is the worst of Miyazaki's films, and that the love of all the women in it is inexplicable.
It's hard to ignore the man's lust for a seventeen-year-old girl who falls in love with herself as an old pig. ”
At first, it was hard for me to understand why anyone would come to such a conclusion after watching the movie. But later, when I thought of the movies that had detonated social ** in the past two years, I suddenly understood.
Gender and stance are getting more attention than ever before.
Almost every Chinese and foreign film released has to pass these two levels first, and people have never consciously paid attention to conscious "censorship". The film began to detach itself from the film itself and became a match thrown into the straw pile.
The topic extends from the plot itself to a debate between the positions of the two groups. The most typical "Barbie" has set off a gender war of words all over the world.
The realist films that lead the domestic box office use topics to generate topics, and the events that are themselves full of gender controversy have been reprocessed by art, and they are the selling points that the filmmakers vigorously promote before their release.
Can you say they're wrong?No, this is an act based on business logic, there are topics, there is traffic, and it is a popular product if you do it, why not do it.
But this kind of environment does make more people wear colored glasses called "stand", and when there is a plot similar to a girl falling in love with a middle-oil man in the movie, the radar in your head will be dripping.
What's more, this pair of glasses can't be taken off in reality. A while ago, for well-known reasons, "Schindler's List" received a large number of bad reviews, and the people who participated in the bad review campaign gave one star not even to the film itself, but to the race of the filmmaker.
Two years ago, "Porco Rosso", which went through the gender trial, also experienced the approval of the position and encountered the one-star movement. At the time, it was criticized for even younger reasons - "anti-defeat" and "glorification of war criminals", but because of the small number of participants, it had no significant impact on the rating.
And "Schindler's List" was once ** to 42 points, and then returned to the original 9 under the platform adjustment4 points.
The rating of the movie can be returned to its original appearance with the help of external forces, and the "colored glasses" that grow on the audience can only be taken off by their own strength.