![]() ![]() ![]() This is repeatedly lampshaded as part of the narrative, as Porco is something of an egoist. Porco is an anthropomorphic pig in an otherwise semi-realistic and pseudo-historically accurate world. The strengths of Porco Rosso are best understood in contrast to The Wind Rises, as Porco Rosso succeeds in delivering a more complex lesson than the latter film despite the cartoon framing. ![]() As the film progresses, it partly recounts Porco’s experiences as a pilot within the Great War, and as well as taking as a given the regime change within Croatia (then Yugoslavia) and the Great Depression. It is dated with a Miyazaki leitmotif of a magazine cover, placing the setting in the late summer of 1929. It is a purposefully international film, introduced with title narration in a variety of languages, and formalizes Miyazaki’s adoption of Europe as a setting and subject in Kiki’s Delivery Service, the setting is merely implied to be European by being European-like, but Porco Rosso is explicitly set over the Adriatic Sea. It uses fairy-tale magic as a plot device in a way similar to Kiki’s Delivery Service (“I wish I could release you from that spell”) whilst shunning the overt historical drama and lofty ambitions of The Wind Rises. Porco Rosso is the strongest of the three, being bright, bold, and easy to follow whilst touching on more serious themes than its premise might suggest. It is the midpoint of an unofficial Miyazaki trilogy examining flight as a method of personal and national liberation, beginning with 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, and concluding with 2013’s The Wind Rises. Porco Rosso is one of the more famous Studio Ghibli films, released in 1992. ![]()
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