A beautiful movie, or the taste of "The Secret of the Book of Kells", "Song of the Sea", "The Breadwinner", this is the style of painting that only Cartoon Saloon studio is willing to make and can make. Today, when the 3D animation represented by Pixar has fully conquered the animation film market, the final glory of flat animation (except for Japanese comics) is a two-hour visual enjoyment.
Innocence and humanity, freedom and bondage. Robin is a girl with a free nature, but her rebellious spirit is about to be wiped out by power and patriarchy. Miba is a wolf walker who lives a carefree and happy life following her heart.
When Robin's father told Robin again and again, "I'm all for your own good." When his father ignored her words again and again, when power made her an obedient tool again and again: stay in a safe place with peace of mind, Doing housework well, being protected by others, she gave in, she broke her promise, she said to Miba what she hated the most, "I'm all for your own good." It is for your own good. Finally a part of her So she died. She accepted her father's words, her own destiny, and the fate that she could not resist. This was a murder from her father and power for protection.
If this is a movie with a more adult orientation, then the plot behind it will be extremely dark, but this is not, this is just a fairy tale, a fairy tale for children. In desperation, Miba bit Robin's father, turning him into a wolf runner. The ignorant person can finally witness the miracle, and the ignorant person can wash away the ugliness from ignorance. It seems that the style at the end of "Blade Runner" can be seen here.
The role of a father is undoubtedly very hateful. From the beginning to the end, he is always saying that I am for your own good, I don't want you to be hurt, but he never believes in his daughter and keeps her from going all the time. Do whatever she wants and be the one who really hurts her daughter all the time. In the end, the father turned into a wolf runner. He knew he was wrong, but the director avoided the important here and turned the real contradiction between the father and the daughter—the father does not believe in the daughter, the father does not want to admit the independent personality of the daughter—the father knows Regarding the guilt of Wolf Walker himself for misunderstanding his daughter, it seems that his eyebrows are pleasing to the eye, but in fact, he is still such a thing in his heart, and the arc of the whole character is invisible.
Robin's growth lies in the fact that she hated the wolves from the very beginning, and finally understood that the wolves were only to protect her homeland and her clan, but her feelings for her father changed very vaguely, and she began to worship her father immensely. , in the end we find that she still admires her father. Is she disappointed? Of course she was disappointed. Did she resist? It didn't seem to resist. She still can't break free from her father's shackles, she still hasn't completely shaken off her father's shadow, she can't even demonstrate to her father.
It is indeed a big problem in the film that the core father-daughter emotion is handled so vaguely. Similarly, this can only be explained by the director's sacrifice for a fairy-tale Happy ending.
The father's role is too abhorrent and perhaps the director's private goods, after all, "Song of the Sea" also has such an incompetent father. Just like Ang Lee can't get rid of the theme of patriarchy in his entire life, to "Billy Lynn's Midfield Battle", "Gemini Man" also contains private goods of patriarchy.
But as a fairy tale, if you want a Happy ending, then the shaping of such a character image is indeed a bit too much. To be honest, I saw that my father was angry with my teeth and I couldn't wait to see how he hung up. It turned out to be a happy ending (rolling my eyes). And I have to say that at the end, the Robin family and the Miba family are really full of slots, all for the children sitting in the theater...
If the author were to rewrite the ending, Robin would have bitten his father who kept resisting and refused to admit the truth in order to get his body back. As a result, his father became a wolf walker, and his father woke up. At this time, Duke Protector shot Robin. During the torn between his father and the protector of the country, they both fell into a cliff and died. The protector was dead and the army was broken, and Robin used the mana of the Wolf Walker to drive away the soldiers. Robin dragged his body to the cave and howled with the wolves. Miba's mother was finally healed, and Miba was too exhausted to be healed. Robin died in the cave. Miba and his mother left the forest with the wolves. Before leaving, Miba released the old man and turned him into a wolf walker. From then on, there will be no more wolf walkers in this land, and there will be no more miracles in this land.
In the author's opinion, the relationship between Miba and Robin is indeed like the Aisha sisters in "Frozen". There are sparks of love in many of the scenes where the two are together. Rolling together many times, does it mean... Many times the faces are completely attached together, showing a love-like shape, does it mean... And the combination of Robin's father and Miba's mother makes the relationship between Robin and Miba and "Frozen" "Aisha's sister relationship is even more similar. Maybe this is just the author's over-interpretation led by political correctness and the author's bad taste...
In addition, from the background of the tide of political correctness, this film is undoubtedly very funny, feminism, human rights, protection of the environment, and resistance to patriarchy, but these words also appear repeatedly in Cartoon Saloon Studio's films, and have always been the core motif. And there is, the eternal thirteen or four-year-old heroine, the eternal resistance to the world, from "The Secret of the Book of Kells" to "Wolf Walker".
Of the four films at Cartoon Saloon Studio, my favorite is "Song of the Sea." The author will never forget that "The Sea" shocked all the children and made the theater start silently in an instant.
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