Yesterday, I picked a rainy time to watch "Wolf Walker", and I really watched a super VIP single-player, it was cool.
The style is unique, the hand-painted style is both traditional and modern, and there is also the first perspective of the wolf in the middle, which is very game-like. This exploration is laudable.
At first, I thought it was a mythological theme, but as I watched it slowly, I soon discovered that it was actually the historical theme as the backbone, the mythological theme as the appearance, and the natural mythology was just a change of history.
The protagonist girl in the play is slender, long and light-haired, with the characteristics of immigrants from high latitudes, and is good at using crossbows. In the play, she borrowed the mouths of a group of rogue boys to point out that she is from England. The Celts, the Wolf Walkers have druid traits, and it's certain that this is what happened in Ireland or Scotland. There are also profound historical reasons for the selection of the Wolf Walker in the story. In ancient England, wolf skins were a tribute to kings and nobles. The king's knights can win the land, provided that all the wolves on that land are slaughtered first, which means that the conqueror wins the land. Wolf hunting parties were usually organized by kings and nobles, and by the 16th century, wolves had become extinct in England and Wales. However, they lived longer in other regions. In Scotland, wolves persisted for nearly 200 years, despite the professional wolf hunting teams organized by nobles and Scottish kings. Irish wolves did not disappear until the mid-18th century. By 1760, wolves in the British Isles were completely wiped out. Later British immigrants to the Americas and New Zealand were still the extinction of wolves. The extinction of the wolf and the extinction of the ancestors' culture are based on the same imagery, both from the extermination and alienation of the conquerors, just like this world alienated by English culture.
Coupled with the appearance of Duke Protector, it is basically a replica of Cromwell's image. Of course, it appears in the form of a hateful dictatorial new aristocratic leader. Combined with Lord Protector's suppression of the digger movement, he drives the middle and lower class farmers to come from The warriors open up wasteland and kill the aborigines (Lord Cromwell's iron cavalry is selected from the peasants who believe in Puritanism and endure hardships, hate feudal lords, devoutly believe in God, and have strict discipline, and can firmly believe in killing people in accordance with God; later North American colonial development is also In this mantle), while squeezing the free claims of the poor to land, the history of expeditions in Ireland and Scotland. Cromwell landed in Dublin, and after a short rest, he led his troops north, besieging Drogheda on September 3 . After the fall of the city, Cromwell ordered the surrender of the enemy and all the men and women in the city to be killed. The massacre lasted for two days, and about 3,500 people died. The defenders of Carlingford and Newry fell without a fight. In October, Cromwell marched south to capture Wexford , another fortress. Cromwell's troops entered the city and slaughtered 2,000 prisoners in the streets and squares. "God's just judgment on these savage wretches whose hands are stained with innocent blood". In an impassioned letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Cromwell praised God for the victory of England, comparing God's elect to "Israel's chariots and horsemen" (the above are the Lord Protector's in Ireland). heroic deeds). The above history is consistent with the plot in the play. I checked that the director is Irish, so the history and the story are consistent.
Of course, this is a natural mythology for young children, which is distributed to the world, especially to English-speaking countries. Therefore, it cannot be made into a national historical story accusing the United Kingdom. It can only be a more international theme of natural mythology. Therefore, the story The protector of the country is also not consistent with history. In the image of the tyrant, he died in the crazy action of expelling the wolf and burning the wolf. In the hands of father and daughter of England wolf. The play ends with the English father and daughter driving away together with the Irish mother and daughter, seemingly forming a family of wolf runners. This is in line with the history of the colonial history where men were killed, the tools of war fell behind and conquered tribal women and conquerors combined, giving birth to mixed-race descendants, which coincided with the history of the birth of Irish Christian culture. Celts are often named after tribes (such as Scotland), not races, and historically have been integrated into Germanic Viking and other conqueror cultures.
(BTW: Roman Catholic priest Patricius used the locally abundant clover in Ireland to explain to the people the "Trinity" of Catholicism, including the Normans who later conquered England and conquered Ireland to become monarchs, and Catholicism gradually ruled the area of Ireland, in the story The druids of the 19th century can only be arranged into the mountains and wilderness. The formation of the Irish nation symbolized by the clover occurred at the same time as the demise of the Celtic belief culture. In the era of the post-Reformation story, the Irish people who insisted on Catholicism were The English became second-class citizens again. As for the confrontation between the English/Anglicans vs Gaelic/Catholic Church, it was not shown in the story. It would be too sensitive to express this. The real-world religious and territorial issues are especially relevant. To the conflict in Northern Ireland, it must not appear in fairy tales, so the appearance of Celtic Druid beliefs that have died in fact is easily associated with environmentalism and feminist fashion trends)
There is also a cultural conflict in the story. Many people modernize it as a conflict between urban civilization and natural civilization. In fact, it is the conflict between the Conqueror's Puritans and the primitive Druid beliefs. As a Puritan, Cromwell highly respected the will of God, and managed everything with his harsh principles. He believed that taking the land was the will of God's promise. In contrast, the Celts themselves had primitive totem beliefs, and later accepted the Druid beliefs, which were also nature worship. In the Druid beliefs, "If you want to become a Druid, please feel The teachings of the Ruids, our hearts are connected with nature, when we feel danger, don't panic like a wild bear, get strength from faith..." Among the Druids, men and women are equal, and the religious leaders are Celtic women, while As an English heroine, she can only do laundry work. Rather than interpreting it as modern feminism, it is better to dig deeper and see the essence of its ethnic culture and religion. The result was the Druidization of the English women and their fathers over the army of the godly Puritan Patronus.
Like Jun Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke", it is also based on the conquest of the Aizi by the Yamato clan into a myth, and "Wolf Walker" directly borrows the Druid mythology to tell things with similar backgrounds. The difference is that "Princess Mononoke" integrates historical stories into the broader struggle between man and nature. History is only the background, deepening the adult mythology with the theme of nature, while "Wolf Walker" tells a more historical story in a distinct animation style. The story of sexuality has been treated with youth and harmony at the same time, and the bloody side of itself is bridged with the love of women and nature, so that the descendants of the conquerors can also accept the work and praise it in the name of love. Nature is a cultural symbol and a symbol that can be interpreted by modernization. Here, nature is a religious belief developed from primitive worship in Celtic culture. In the end, people of different cultures and ethnic groups can understand each other in Celtic religious culture. The fusion of blind love and mutual love is a metaphor for denying that Christian Puritans sanctify conquest in the name of God (after all, in Northwest Europe and the English-speaking world where apocalypse religions are popular, direct attacks will be boycotted by believers). Therefore, if you don’t know history, this is a children’s myth of a bottom-tier peasants and warriors resisting feudal lords’ land acquisition and destroying nature. It seems to be the opposition between urban civilization and natural survival, or it is more fashionable to understand feminism over male patriarchy. Going deeper Look, there is another story about the conqueror and the conquered. The war between the ruthless Puritans who killed the pioneers and the naturalistic primitive believers in the name of the Lord was not based on revenge, but on love and understanding. In this letter to young people, reconciliation is the future.
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