This French animation outlined with elegant watercolor brushstrokes seems to tell us that when alone, bears and mice will hug together to keep warm. The story of "Ait Bear and Senna Mouse" is similar to the Japanese "Emerald Forest", but it has a richer connotation, a more anthropomorphic background setting and a three-dimensional character portrayal.
Senna Rat is intern at a dental school and collects bear cub teeth for the medical school every day for customers to replace. But what she really likes is painting, and believes that not all bears are vicious, so when she is at work, she always takes the drawing board and carefully imitates all the good things that she sees in the bear world. Ai Texiong was born in a family of judges. He had high hopes from his childhood, but he fell in love with music and gave up his studies for music. Now he is destitute, and he is worried about three meals a day.
Saina Mouse and Ai Te Xiong are both young literary and artistic youths with dreams, but because this dream is incompatible with universal values, they appear lonely and helpless. Until that day, he was so hungry to stare at Venus. He found her sleeping when he lifted the lid of the trash can in order to search for food. The strange fate made them the targets of each other's society. Fate created a pair of accomplices who depended on each other for their lives. Inexplicable.
The society of bears and rats in the film is so similar to ours, the regions are full of prejudice and malice; candy shops and dental clinics are turned on, and the egoism is exhausted; the social system is condescending, obliterating and contempt for personal values . And the seemingly absurd friendship between Ai Te Xiong and Senna Rat is not simple friendship or love that can be summed up, but is closely dependent after being isolated by universal values. At Xiong Xue Xue’s house, it is precisely forced by the chaos and secular world. The last corner of the corner is simple and beautiful. There is a bear here who can’t eat mice, and even holds her in her arms while she is having nightmares and softly soothes her; there is a mouse here who believes in the kindness of bears, and will even help him when he is asleep. Gently wipe off the snow falling on the tip of his nose from the roof.
The happy ending only exists in fairy tales, and life must continue after watching the movie. Thank you for having art, which can take good stories out of life, and let people get a gentle dose of morphine when they are tired. After all, always living in fantasy, of course, will die, but always living in reality, it is also easy to go crazy.
The film was nominated for the 86th Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film with its beautiful soundtrack, charming watercolor style, innocent and cute but full of satirical stories about reality. Also nominated are DreamWorks' "Crazy Primitives", Universal Pictures' "Despicable Me 2", Disney's "Frozen" and Hayao Miyazaki's "Wind Up". Faced with the top-notch quality of the best animated feature films nominated for the Olympics Awards, the literary category of "Ait Bear and Senna Mouse" is under great pressure to win, but it is a fresh sketch that is very worthy of appreciation.
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