tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post6636317324627556885..comments2024-03-24T20:15:00.996-04:00Comments on Critic After Dark: The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)Noel Verahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-72814308002892457542015-01-25T14:00:16.975-05:002015-01-25T14:00:16.975-05:00Good stuff. Good stuff. Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-82322714038603107422015-01-25T09:57:43.401-05:002015-01-25T09:57:43.401-05:00The final discussion of the film as existing withi...The final discussion of the film as existing within borders is a meta-theme, since <i>The Wind Rises</i> can be seen as Miyazaki surrendering to the reality of his own boundaries, as he has in the past. In 1997 he announced his first retirement, after completing <i>Princess Mononoke</i> and seeing the release of <i>Whisper of the Heart</i>, directed by longtime Ghibli animator Yoshifumi Kondo. Within months of that announcement Kondo the heir apparent died of an aneurysm and Miyazaki was back at his desk. Both <i>Howl's Moving Castle</i> and <i>The Wind Rises</i>--and even, to a lesser extent, <i>Ponyo</i>--are meditations on age, on passing the work from one generation to the next, whether brought about by natural disasters or man-made disasters or the inevitable passage of time.Patrick Drazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443293064318887299noreply@blogger.com