The Wind Rises

This movie made me feel empty (in a bad way). Seriously i feel no emotions during the whole movie, no anger, no joy, not even sadness. The movie feels stakeless and boring as hell. The protagonist pretty much already has everything, a good education, a good job, and good friends. The conflict apparently came from his creations and how he want to build a plane not for war but for travel. Yet, the conflict isn't really explore that much. He seems way too content on making the planes without much resistance, one could argue that he has no choice but atleast give him a stronger inner turmoil between what he wants and what the country wants. And then there's the romance which is the worst part. First of all they literally just met for like a fee days and immediately proposed a marriage. Sure they've meet eachother a long time ago yet the only real build up to their relationship is that one singular scene of them playing paper airplane. Romance so bad I came up with my own interpretation that the protag doesn't even trully love her but instead use her as a distraction for the war planes he helped created. This allign well with the convo on how the hotel is a place to forget, just like how the protag uses her as a mean to forget. I do like how in the end she decided to leave him, paired with my personal interpretation it feels way more satisfying. Also the ending in a vacuum is genuinely good and showcase the true horror on what he created, but again I wish there was more buildup to it.