Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso (1992), with Deleuze
When Gilles Deleuze long enough to the spelling of his ideas and concepts is watching and listening, they begin to capture his own thinking and perceiving pleasant. When I saw yesterday evening Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso for the first time, I was immediately clear that they have to deal with a thoroughly Deleuzian work. The film is the structure of a form of subconscious desire produced in which the various elements of a utopian dream of becoming. As there would be: a transformed into a pig pilot with a bogey-trench coat who hunts with his red machine hijackers. An American flyer Dandy, the dreams of the cinema and would later be president. Women who are tinkering in a workshop on a special aircraft, while upgrading their uniformed men for the war. A fascist Italy, where for pigs and pirates and aliens no place. Children, the huge machine guns for sale. A woman who has lost her heart to a pig and turned the evening in the bar the air with their songs captains head. A 17-year-old, who has built a new control mechanism and knows no fear.
The beast and the children Porco Rosso The children have never been afraid in Miyazaki films. IT CAN define their child-Being: The curiosity is always greater than fear. At the beginning of Porco Rosso kidnap Pirates a class of 15 girls who enthusiastically jump on board, playing and climbing between the arms hang laughing at the firing guns, pull the buccaneers of the beard and admire the skull paintings. Later the mechanic Fiona, meanwhile Porco Rosso's co-pilot, bringing a whole horde of angry pirates with a few words to reason and to offer himself as a prize in a dogfight. The children at Miyazaki deterritorial think, not of their own position, their security considered, but from the horizon, from the other based on its position engaging, just curious. In the Deleuzian sense, they are always left, not quite conservative, but in the making, in becoming child. Becoming a child, the show Miyazaki's films for children that will be when watching another always something very beautiful, is not growing up, but rather the spread of perception, of feeling, of empathy on all things and beings, strangers and old, men , women, animals, weapons and monsters. Miyazaki's films are no initiation stories of adolescents, but rather exercises in the child, without a universal curiosity territory.
Or will animals, as Porco Rosso. The story of the enchanted prince who is saved by a kiss, runs as a subtext of the film, but was not told to the end. Porco Rosso, Miyazaki makes abundantly clear, does not suffer from the curse of the transformation into another being, he's become this creature, or rather he is in the process of animal Werdung. "Better a fascist pig," he says at one point, but you can also generalize: better pork will be as a person. Do not be part of a nation, a movement, a community, but remain alone, beyond the limits of the clouds, even that is becoming-animal. And enjoy: the women, the wine, the risk of the wind, loneliness.
In Miyazaki, there are pictures of the work. Factories and manufacturers. If cities and socialization appear in his films, they are always in the early capitalist stage in which one can see the work still done by hand, labor. Some of the most amazing sequences in Porco Rosso from the Milan workshop of a flight engineer, which only reduce women to the construction plans of a young girl a new machine. Their husbands are in the Air Force of the fascists, the women build the anarchist pig is an airport and escape device. Maybe looks like the unconscious, no Freudian farce, on the Stage Dad and Mom copulate on forever, but a factory that manufactured in the new will and desires take shape.
Porco Rosso is a celebration of deterritorialization. Except in Milan, playing all the action from on a variety of small Adriatic islands, pirate nests, retreats, Fantome L'archipelago. This does not localizable yet kartografierbarem Atoll, all characters have come together to be anything but want to be everything (child, animal, woman, heterosexual, adult man, Deleuze, one can not be only) Spelunkensängerinnen, pirates, dandies , pigs, scum. Although they fight each other, is clear that they belong together, not as a community, but a rhizome, of a network. A dream.
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