As a big fan of Miyazaki Hayao animation movies, of cause I am not going to miss this newest one and seems to be the last production before his retirement.

Not every movie theater was showing it, so we had to drive to El Segundo and watched it in the Arclight theater.

The story is based on a real person’s biography, who designed the fighter air plane for Japanese army during WWII, mainly used for fighting with China and US. So it’s very different from other animation movies he made, which were telling fantasy stories.

The WWII background and the tragedy ending of the love story brought the movie a quite very sad and heavy feeling. The air plane technology and the engineer were brilliant but it was used for a war that killed millions of people.

I am not sure if the engineer himself really had this confliction in his mind or not but the producer seems want to show this feeling in his movie.

Finished movie “the cloud atlas” this weekend. It was almost 3 hours long, contains 6 sub stories crossing different area and time. i was completely lost in the first hour since scenes switch fast between the 6 stories. But it still remain interesting to me and i didn’t not want to stop.
Many famous actors are in this movie. Like Tom Hanks. He has multiple roles in there, some are greedy and evil, some are with great heart willing to help others. It must be a interesting movie for him to play.
There are still many unanswered questions in me even after finishing watching it. It’s a complicated story and the underlying thoughts is deep too. Does it want to say what ever we do, it will affect others and.people in the future or it is taking about afterlife, reborn. Or maybe both.

Anyway it is a very interesting and good movie.