The Wind Rises
Week #21 (Summer break #6): Ever since I first saw The Wind Rises, I've thought about it at least once a day. I've fallen in love with this movie, unlike with any other. Sure, Whisper of the Heart may be more relatable to me. Sure, Forrest Gump is an impressive package story of everything I love. But The Wind Rises is a movie that stuck with me, influenced me. It is a bitterly beautiful tragedy of dreams becoming reality done with such magnificent artistry of animation and drawings. It is not a perfect movie, it has flaws, like any piece of art, and I can see why some don't like it, or dare to call it boring. For me, it is pure love for what it is, and I don't think there should be anything more to explain love.