This was a romantic film. I knew very little about this movie going on, only that it was based on a real Japanese engineer. What I mean by romantic is that the movie was meant to invoke emotion, both inspirational and heartwrenching.
Given the war backdrop of the movie, if the goal of the movie was to somewhat detach the movie from any of those ill feelings and only lean into the personal and loving stories, then I think the movie fulfilled that goal. However, I couldn't help but keep wondering how much of the movie was in fact true to history.
After doing some reading, it seems that much of the movie was fictionalized, as I had suspected. But again, given that it was based on a war backdrop, the question of portrayal kept popping up in my mind, considering the fact that Horikoshi Jiro had designed a fighter jet.
But I'll discuss this all under the cut. If you only consider this as fiction, I think it was a decent movie. The love story felt a little forced at times, but it was 1000% a top notch animation movie, as we can always expect from Miyazaki Hayao and Studio Ghibli. It's just that the story was not the most convincing to me this time because it was more tied with actual history.
Spoilers.
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