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The pure and healing hand-painted style like a picture book makes "Wolf Walker" show a beautiful fairy tale world from the beginning, and in this ups and downs fairy tale, its inner depth is not one-way and simple. Through the contradiction between wolf and man in front of the living space, it not only shows the grand proposition of man and nature, but also integrates the values of modern humanism with the awakening of the girl's resistance.
The prevalence of CG technology has made most of today's animations continue to pursue realism. Visible hair, gorgeous and realistic scenes are often the characteristics of this type of animation, but as director Tom Moore used his own "Irish folktale trilogy". Out of a unique way, with a highly recognizable hand-painted style, "Wolf Walker" not only shows its own distinctive style, but also uses different colors to complete its own aesthetic expression, making it seem simple. The lines seem to have been given a new life. This very characteristic hand-painted style is unique, and it also makes the beautiful base color of this fairy tale movie.
The background of the story of "Wolf Walker" takes place in Ireland in 1650. The continuous expansion of human beings is hindered by the existence of wolves in the forest. The little girl Robin's father is a professional hunter, so he was sent by the lord to destroy the forest. The wolf pack, but the father did not allow his daughter to hunt with him, but the little girl went to the forest alone in order to prove her skills, so she got to know Miba, the wolf walker who has the ability to call wolves and has magical healing ability, and her Her mother, who also became a wolf walker because of being bitten, but Robin, who had a deep understanding of the wolves, found that they were neither scary nor hurtful. How Robin and Miba worked together to protect the forest and save the wolves became a movie the main line.
In the movie, the relationship between man and nature has become the most straightforward allegory of this fairy tale. In order to obtain a wider space, human beings continue to cut down forests, forcing the wolves to resist, but the wolf walkers did not want to use them at the beginning. Violence resists violence, Miba tries to influence human beings by repaying grievances with virtue, but obviously this method has become a sign of weakness in front of the representatives of those who have vested interests in the protector of the country, and the insatiable human beings are still cutting down the forest. , to strangle the wolves, and ultimately suffer the consequences. The unbridled demands of nature will inevitably lead to natural revenge. The harmonious coexistence of man and nature is the only way out for human development.
While focusing on nature, the transformation of the girl Robin has become the independent awakening that the film needs to be a human being. The embodiment of this sense of resistance is Robin, who is still ignorant of the world. Although she is immature in the face of society, It is also pure, there are no religious and secular shackles on her body, the film focuses on the pure friendship between her and Miba, the two girls, who can be used as a father's hunter, although he restricts it in extreme ways in the name of love. Robin's freedom, but in such a society where religious and secular power merge, he is really just a victim.
As the lord of the ruling class, Lord Protector, on the surface, it seems that he exterminates the wolves for the safety of the people and to honor the will of God, but God never speaks. He wears a seemingly orthodox coat, but behind his back his purpose is only for his own greed, so Robin's rebellious awakening is not only free from the oppression of patriarchy, but also the dualism of feudal centralization and religion. Shackles, which makes the film tell an old fairy tale, but the consciousness it conveys is modern.
Tom Moore's unique scenes and pictures endow "Wolf Walker" with the beauty of form as an animated film, and the fairy tale composed by pursuing freedom and embracing nature has created the soul of the film.
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