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1media/the-wind-rises07.jpg2017-10-31T09:48:55-07:00The Wind Rises11Miyazaki's Memorial Masterpieceimage_header5313492017-10-31T10:59:26-07:00What was presumed to be acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film was seen as a magnum opus, a masterful capstone to a career filled with compassion, beauty, and activism. After announcing that it would be his final film before retiring (though he has since proven far too restless to retire), Miyazaki released The Wind Rises, a movie many readily considered to be the director’s swan song. Miyazaki’s films are known to be masterful not only for their visual splendor but for their transcendent storytelling and powerful streams of activism. Like the wind that rises in the film, the movie soars above many contemporary films whose focuses are fast cars and explosions in place of depth and contemplation. Miyazaki graces us with sheer purity of narrative and grounds a solid pacifist commentary within a visually striking and quintessentially human understanding of the best that we strive to be.
