Porco Rosso
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May 3β8, 2019
Central Cinema
Central District (Seattle)
$5 - $10
How many of you have abrasively retorted, to some ridiculous proposition, “Pssssh, when pigs fly!” Well, the legendary Hayao Miyazaki has an answer for you ungrateful, cynical fucks: Porco Rosso, which translates as “red pig” in Italian—and boy, does this pig fly. Not with literal wings, but in a plane. (I’m not sure which one is more improbable.) This 1990s-era Miyazaki tale follows an Italian World War I veteran fighter ace and current freelance bounty hunter as he chases air pirates above the Adriatic Sea. He’s cursed to be a pig, though. A talking one at that. This is one of the few Miyazaki films to take place in a plausible historical context.
by Jas Keimig