The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth: Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys.
Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki's most recurring visual metaphor for freedom and creative transcendence is aviation (his famed studio, after all, is named after a 1930s Italian reconnaissance aircraft nicknamed the "Ghibli"). In Porco Rosso, the maestro places this career-long fixation front and center. The film is set on the Adriatic Coast of Italy in 1929 — seven years after Mussolini came to power — and it tells the irresistibly whimsical tale of a World War I Italian fighter pilot who has been mysteriously transformed into a pig (but still takes to the sky with swagger and derring-do). Was Porco Rosso cursed to become a pig due to the survivor's guilt he feels from the horrors he witnessed in the First Great War? Or has he become a swine because he dropped out of Italy's dehumanizing nationalist movement to live by his own curmudgeonly code of honor as a freelance bounty hunter — one who abhors the Italian secret police as much as the profiteering air pirates he tracks down in the skies? Miyazaki doesn't exactly say, but the freewheeling version of heroism that Porco represents is unmistakable. When an Italian officer invites him back into the Italian air force with a cush position, Porco scoffs, "Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."
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