"Forest Warrior" tells a similar story. The father of the girl MK firmly believes that there is a kingdom of elves in the forest, which protects the ecological balance of the forest, but MK does not believe it; in order to find the elves, her father even sacrificed her family and lived a solitary life in the forest. The plot unfolds. When MK visits his father, he strays into the world of elves and experiences a splendid adventure.
The villain is a rotten force, and the forest warrior is a green vitality. The two opposite and connected phenomena in nature are designed as opposite roles; MK and the rebellious kid in the forest warrior have completed their irreversible growth in character; the macro world and the micro world , Not just the relationship between inclusion and inclusion; "There are some things that you can't see or believe, they don't exist." This kind of conceptual discussion has some religious implications. The film’s settings and themes are actually very rich, and they cannot be simply summed up with the word "environmental protection".
Compared to the seemingly complex theme, the execution process of the story is not as delicate as the small and beautiful forest guardian, but a bit clumsy like MK's father. Director Chris and Witch tried to adapt the original work similar to "Alice in Wonderland" into an adventure movie that conforms to the current entertainment trend. As a result, the adventure is like an animated version of the plot of "Avatar". MK is undoubtedly the first protagonist, the rebellious kid and her father are also experiencing the arc of the protagonist's character. In addition, the rationality of the macro- and micro-traveling must be taken into consideration, as well as the necessary parallel narratives. I am afraid that the visual effects alone made the director exhausted, and Chris seemed to lose sight of one another, so that the film lacked enough humor and smooth plot transitions. Juggling action fights, due to the excessive consumption of American animation in recent years, have become cheap entertainment chips that are not attractive. Snails and slugs have taken on the biggest task of selling cute and funny. Unfortunately, just as their roles are not enough, they are dedicated. The jokes can't support the whole movie.
The English name of the movie is "Epic", which means "epic". The director and Blue Sky Studios use such a big name, probably just like naming a Chinese-language movie with "wuxia", which can easily disgust local audiences. Unless you are doing "Kung Fu" like Stephen Chow, it is difficult to escape safely from the huge trap set by yourself. Mainstream Hollywood movies are the safest fantasy world. All adventures will turn from nightmares into dreams, especially cartoons. This certain safe world, as well as the commercial requirements of maximizing entertainment and age-free viewing, gave "Epic" a rich theme and some profound questions, which revealed a bit of sharp corners and was suppressed. Going back, in the end, it became a self-defeating young "epic".
If you believe in the mystery, ghost films will give the greatest horror experience; if you believe in fairy tales, American animation will bring the safest and cheerful adventures. Blue Sky Studio’s 2008 "Holden and Anonymous" has presented the microcosm of nature and creatures once. If you have not seen it before, or if you have seen it and your curiosity has not been exhausted, "Forest Warrior" is worth wasting 100 minutes. The time, it is far from being as mediocre as imagined. [Sohu Entertainment]
(Thanks to Qiu Lei and the novel "Compound Eyes" for the first paragraph)
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