Il Porco Rosso

Zoë loves the Miyazaki movie "Porco Rosso", and she likes to play that she is friends with him. The other day, she wanted to play something that went like this: "let's pretend that Superpig read on my blog that I'm having a tea party and only girls are invited, and he's really jealous." So young, and she already understands everything about the blogging.

Comments

[Saheli]

For a minute I was confused about why he would be all jealous since they're all girls, but then I realized Zoe is all enligtened and modern. :-)

[cw]

Hey, I just put that on my netflix for my kids. I was worried it might be too adult for them, but they've loved many other miyazaki films.

[Maureen Hay]

I tell everyone to rent this for their kids, because we need more kid's films that have heroes saying "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist." Good discussion starter too.

[Rob Rushing]

Jesus, my son is obsessed with this movie. He knows every line of dialogue, even though he just turned three; the most lofty and elevated object in the universe is the hydroplane. It's one if those great movies that is just as fun for grown-ups as kids. Sasha made us get the book (Artwork of Porco Rosso), and I found a great line of dialogue that got cut from the version on the DVD: as Porco is loading Fio into Gina's plane at the end, Gina says to him: "Marco, you're throwing away a perfectly good teenager." As far as the "too adult," the only problem with the film was that it introduced Sasha to fistfighting and guns (albeit in a friendly, non-fatal context)--he now owns multiple water pistols, and transforms every stick into a gun (there has also been the inevitable metaphorization-of-penis-as-gun).

Strangely, Sasha has saved all his love for Cinderella, the story one, not the movie one (he still hasn't seen the American one, although he likes the Russian version reasonably well).