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The Boy and the Heron

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David Armstrong
Dec 10, 2023
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Caveat lector: spoilers follow for The Boy and the Heron.

Recently I watched Porco Rosso for the first time. I didn’t expect to find the tale of an Italian sea-plane bounty hunter in the Adriatic Sea cursed to look like a pig by his distaste for humanity in the wake of the Great War as personally moving as I did, but boy did I. Porco’s ace pilot schtick…

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