Porco Rosso (Disney, Blu - ray) is Miyazaki's
fantasy of a loner flying ace, a World War I hero who lives in isolation on an island in the Adriatic Sea and patrols the skies on a personal mission to keep them safe from high - flying sky pirates in an imaginary post-World War I Italy.
The fantasy of the loner with a secret is played to the hilt, with no greater thought in the picture's head than to offer opportunities for our hero to be underestimated and unsheathe those Freddy Kruegers.
Not exact matches
The neo-luddite wilderness
fantasy is an old theme, explored by a variety
of writers and real - life
loners.
In Reed Morano's gorgeous post-apocalyptic movie, Peter Dinklage plays a grumpy
loner who gets to live out a «Twilight Zone» - like
fantasy of having all the time in the world to read in his empty town's library.