I remembered "Song of the Ocean" today, and I opened the pad and revisited it. Every frame is beautiful, and it has the temperament of European fairy tales. Of course, it's not just fairy tales for kids. I was a little confused when I first read it, but after the second reading, I tried to sort out the context of the story. The mother is a seal elf. She has her own mission, so she has to leave the home she built with humans, her husband, son, and daughter; the elder brother thinks that the arrival of the younger sister has made him lose his mother, so he dislikes the younger sister; the husband feels betrayed because, for six years, he used wine to drown his sorrows and became depressed. He took his son and daughter to live in a lighthouse hut by the sea; his grandmother was from the city and felt that his son should not be trapped in decadence, bringing the grandchildren back to the city to live.
The witch Macha is the giant's mother. The giant was in pain because of something. He was crying and crying, and the tears flowed into the sea. The witch couldn't bear to see her son so sad, and sucked his feelings away, so he became a rock without feelings. The elves whose emotions were sucked by the witch's jar turned into rocks, and the witch herself, half of her body was already a rock, because every time she was angry and excited, she used the jar to suck away her emotions and seal them up. stand up. My dad is like a giant. Because of his wife's departure, he is in deep pain and can't help himself. Grandma feels sorry for her son and grandchildren, but she doesn't know how to help. She thought it would be good to take them away from this little broken house where they lived together, no? Like a witch?
The witch Macha used a jar to contain all her emotions; sadness, pain, disappointment, distress, joy, and joy were locked in transparent jars. I think she's just trying to avoid negative emotions like sadness, but I guess whether it's in the fairy world or the human world, there's never been such a thing: you just have to accept the good, not the bad. So, I guess those happy, happy, and happy ones are also claiming to be. The little sister elf played music with all her strength in weakness, the jar cracked little by little, and those liberated emotions returned to the master.
The little sister wearing the seal elf coat regained her strength little by little. Under the guidance of her brother, she sang the song of the ocean. The song awakened everything. The elves who turned into stones were resurrected, the giants woke up, and the mother appeared. The elves have returned to order and are leaving. Mom wants to take her sister away, but her sister chooses to stay and stay in the human world. Dad said, "I love you, was and still am," and then mom and dad kissed goodbye; the brother said, "In your song, in your story, I'll always be there," and mom said, "I love you always and always will be."
Finally, the younger sister can speak, the elder brother knows he loves the younger sister, the father looks forward, the grandma's heart is relieved, and the family lives happily. The first time I saw this film was in the cinema when it was released in China more than two years ago. When I watched it for the first time, I couldn't understand the reaction of this elf mother. The mother appeared at the beginning and end of the whole movie. When the movie finally appeared in front of the family, she didn't say a word at first. What extra action? He just came over and took my sister and walked into the sea. It was my son who asked first: "Can Mommy keep her?" "Can you not leave Mommy?" I saw her eyes. tears, but how is such a reaction? Don't want your son or daughter? Won't you give me a hug? It was puzzling at the time.
I remember when the movie was over, with tears on my face, I told the people around me, since she knew she was going to leave, why did she stay and live with him in the first place, and she gave birth to two children. He just smiled and didn't answer me. Times have changed, and the people who went to the movies with us have also left. I used to wish very much to have a jar like the witch macha but in a slightly different form—I used to think for the past two years that if I could just take out my heart and throw it into the sea to feed the whales, because the feeling of loss is too painful , the feeling of being torn apart by various emotions is too painful. Two or three years have passed, and when I look at this movie again, it seems that the confusion is a little less. At least I will no longer ask questions like "Why did you stay together in the first place since I knew you were going to leave?" I can still watch it. To the elf mother's restraint, forbearance, and love. The person who left said let go, and the person who was left couldn't take out their hearts to feed the fish or turn them into stones, so let it be. What I saw was a story of loss and letting go.
View more about Song of the Sea reviews
