Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Seventh Day: Happy Sunday Movie (The Wind Rises)


This writing should be posted on the last sunday (03/16)

This sunday, me and Kak Atha went to a movie for watching "The Wind Rises". That is the title for an anime movie made by the legend, Hayao Miyazaki and produced under Ghibli Studio roof. "The Wind Rises" or "Kaze Tachinu" (title in Japanese version) becomes a very special movie since this is the last mastepiece of Miyazaki Sensei before he claimed for a retirement as an anime movie maker. For those who adore Miyazaki's works, like "Spirited Away" or "Tonari no Totoro" might have already waited this movie for a long time.

The story tells about a dedicated airplane engineer, Jiro Horikoshi. He is the real character who lived in early 1900's. Yes, this movie is dedicated to him. Jiro had obsessed with airplane since he was young. In the movie, it showed that he often dreaming of an aeronautical engineer from Italy, Caproni. He ran for his dream and successfully being promoted as a chief designer of an airplane which will be used for fighting during the war. He experienced the failure at the first trial. But then, his later designed airplane called Mitsubishi A5M or widely known as "Zero" became the success and introduced at the early of world war II.

Overall i enjoyed the movie and this time quite thoughtful seeing Miyazaki showed how dedicated Jiro was, both for his role as an engineer and  a life-partner. At the last scene, in Jiro's dream, Caproni asked to him which one he prefers, world with or without pyramids. The question emerged to confront his thought of the regret for his own invention which caused the deaths on the war.


I asked the same question to a friend on the day after i watched the movie, just for fun. We might think the existence of pyramid would not affect our current life. He said if there is no pyramids in this world, our life might be very different from now. There will be no air-scrapper building or any other innovation, especially for architecture development history. And i think he is right. Everything brings something to this world, even though they have such dark sides. Like the airplanes which Caproni and Jiro made. They might have been utilized as the tools to attack or kill people, but they still have their own beauty which is needed to make a life-scenario.

I believe everything happens for a reason. Only few could be predicted but the remaining are mystery. Jiro just done his best to be an aeronautical engineer, but destiny brought him to be an actor of a story. Life is full of mystery, hence it allows surprises come along with :)

By the way, sorry for the late post and i won't tell you any such excuses for this :)


Cheers,

Sawitri Wening

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