He had watched this film before — on a laptop, on a phone, on a faded TV in a waiting room. But never like this. PSYCHD meant the grain of the watercolor backgrounds was preserved. The 1080p meant when Nahoko painted her watercolors, he could see the individual brush hairs. And the x264 meant that when Jiro whispered, "Le vent se lève," the breath carried perfectly, uncompressed, from 2013 into this lonely room.
The film explores the "cursed dream" of aviation—the tragic irony of a man wanting to create something beautiful (flight) that is destined to become a tool of destruction (war). It is a deeply personal, contemplative work that tackles Japan’s Taisho and Showa eras, including the Great Kanto Earthquake and the Great Depression. The.Wind.Rises.2013.1080p.BluRay.x264-PSYCHD