in your song

Wayne 2022-04-19 09:02:25

Comments said that the animation lasted for ten years and was hand-painted frame by frame. It is not that handmade works are necessarily better than computer animations, but at least it shows the creator's intentions. Personally, I like the animation of this tone very much. The picture alone has a literary temperament, not to mention the sweet folk songs.

Relive fairy tales with singing. The fairy tales I listened to when I was a child were like this: there was the vast sea, the starry sky of Van Gogh, the cursed elf, the evil witch, the huge and mighty king, there were little boys and girls, and there was beautiful music. That's what makes up the film.

The little boy Ben lives by the sea with his parents. His mother told him many stories and taught him many songs. One of the songs of the ocean is particularly beautiful. However, the mother left without saying goodbye after giving birth to her younger sister Saoirse, and from then on, the father led Ben and Saoirsa to live a frustrated life. Sao Ersa is growing up and has a kind feeling for the sea, but she can't speak until she is six years old; Ben lives in the longing for her mother, but she doesn't have much affection for her sister. In his eyes, her sister is restless and restless ( Maybe I feel that my mother's departure is related to the birth of my sister); my father takes on the heavy responsibility of the family by himself after his wife leaves, and still chooses to continue to live under the lighthouse by the sea, longing for his wife's return.

One night, following the guidance of the elf flash, Saoirsa found the cape and conch (instrument) left by her mother at home. She put on a cape, came to the beach, played the conch and danced gracefully, gradually merged into the sea, turned into a seal girl, and roamed freely in the sea with the seals.

Saoirse is a seal girl, and Saoirsa's mother must return to the sea after giving birth to Saoirsa.

After the seal girl puts on the cape, she can not only speak, but also sing a beautiful song, and the singing can even dispel the terrible curse.

Grandma felt that living by the sea was not good for Ben and Saoirse, and despite her father's objections, Grandma brought the siblings to live in town. When Halloween comes, the legendary witch's owl is going to move at night, capturing the elves with a glass and turning them into stones. The three remaining elves meet the seal girl Saoirse in the town. They seek the help of the seal girl, hoping to relieve the curse that happened to the same kind through the song of the seal girl, and save the elves that have turned to stone.

The evil witch Macha, years ago tried to use magic to relieve the pain of the giant king Lil. Because of the great sadness, Lil wept for days and nights, and the tears pooled into a boundless ocean. Macha's magic turned Lil into a stone mountain. Macha, who lost Lil, became obsessed, and began to turn many elves into stone through owls.

On the way home to find the cape, Ben and Saoirse are separated. Saoirse had to put on the cloak left by her mother in order to sing. Singing is the antidote to magic.
Saoirse was taken to her magical cabin by Macha; Ben met the memory elf on the way, and in the memory elf's hair, the little boy read the legend of the elf. Ben bravely travels to Macha's magic house to rescue Saoirse.

The half-petrified Saoirsa played the music of the conch, and the curse of Macha's magic house gradually dissipated. Macha, also lost his magic. Saoirse was dying.

With the help of seals, Ben finds the cloak thrown by his father at the bottom of the sea. The seal girl Saoirsa put on her cape, gradually regained her strength, and began to sing the most beautiful. Sing, dissolve all the curses of the world around you. Sad Lil's soul also floats out of the stone to join Macha; the mother of the seal girl - Ben's mother - also appears before them: she is the spirit of the seal.

Mom tells Saoirse that the cape is Saoirse's last connection with the seal elf, and she has to choose between a human and a seal elf. Saoirse handed the cape to her mother and stayed by the sea, watching her leave.

The music is awesome! The picture has style, and the art is beautiful!

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Extended Reading

Song of the Sea quotes

  • Saoirse: Ben

    [last lines]

    Saoirse: Granny

  • [first lines]

    Bronagh: Come away oh human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.