I would like to thank the netizens of station B for this article. Thanks to you, in any new commentary on "The Battle of the Ice Sea", you spared no effort in Amway, so that I could not miss such an excellent work.
In my opinion, the biggest advantage and the most commendable point of this work of "The Battle of the Ice Sea" is that it shows " real and complex human nature ". Many characters are very plump, which can give the audience a strong sense of substitution. Sometimes, when I look at it, my eyes get wet without realizing it.
Cry for growth.
In the early days, he was annoyed by this soft-eyed prince, and even more annoyed by his teacher "Lagunal" who doted on him infinitely behind his back. From an outsider's point of view, he is like a mama beside the empress, because of love, regardless of right and wrong, he takes the prince deeper and deeper. And when the plot gradually unfolds, we know the environment in which the prince lives: his own life is precarious, his parents and brothers are intriguing and other realities, and we also understand that it is not that Laguna's over-indulgence creates a cowardly prince, but that the cowardly prince does not want to Facing the real world, he blindly escaped in a dream called "Laguna". Laguna is dead, but the prince has not woken up. It was not until the prince arrived in a situation where there was only one person left by his side that he decided to walk out of this dream by himself.
When a person reaches middle age, looking back on the past, parents, teachers, schools, youth, and friends, is it not a dream that we do not want to wake up from? When you go out of the house, you gradually realize that not everyone can tolerate you so well. Out of the ivory tower, you gradually realize that learning is not an important measure, and many things are too complicated to quantify. Stepping out of your youth, you gradually discover that your dreams may not come true, and hard work may not yield results...
This is the price of growth.
Two cry, for glory.
The role of Biao Lun, in "The Battle of the Ice Sea", has not many roles, and most of them are negative: the five majors and the three crudes have no culture, eat poisonous mushrooms and become a berserker, hijack the male protagonist and so on. He has no pursuit, no morality, and nothing can be seen from his face. However, he also has the only belief that he does not want to live up to. When he was wounded in the fight and recuperated in the rear, he felt his end was coming. Although he could barely get up, he agreed to a duel with Ashirat in order to fulfill the honor of being a warrior. In the end, wearing armor, he died under the sword.
This kind of tragic, this kind of courage, knowing that the end of the road, but still going forward bravely, we have also seen in many other works: "Fate Zero" in "Fate Zero", the emperor who led the attack of thousands of troops, three times in "Bright Sword" The commander of the cavalry company with only one person left after the charge.
The end of the hero is the most moving.
Three cry, for the ideal. ?
It is called "VINLAND SAGA" (Legend of Wenlan), the story does not take place in Wenlan, and the protagonist is not named Wenlan. It has been 24 episodes, and Wenlan still doesn't know where it is. Therefore, the Wenlan in the story is more symbolic than practical.
Wen Lan, the place where the protagonist heard from Uncle Leif's story when he was a child, where the four seasons are like spring, there is no oppression, there are no slaves, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment. Although I heard that I really went to farm in the later period, the "Wen Lan" in the title does not really refer to this place, but refers to such an ideal living state in people's minds at that time. Living in troubled times, people at that time had similar longings: in the story of Asherat, it was called Avalon, and in the story of the prince, it was called the Garden of Eden (in Tao Qian’s story, it was called the Peach Blossom Garden ).
In the face of ideals, there are people waiting. Asherat's mother went crazy while waiting for "King Arthur" to come. Some run away, devout Christians in Wales, wanting to go to heaven after the "Judgment Day". But there are also people who are determined to pursue and create. Both Asherat and the prince made changes. A handful as old as Leif were willing to burn their own lives for this.
Don't forget the original intention, Fang De is always. May you all regain your ideals and strive for them.
Four cry, to let go.
Finally arrived at the protagonist Tol Fen, talented audience friends, also called him "TOOL Fen", because he is really an "emotionless revenge machine". Dad asked him to give up because of his dreams, but he quit. Leif used Vinland to lure him to give up, but he still gave up. Asherat died in front of him, making revenge physically impossible, and he... still didn't do it (so he would turn to attack the prince and everyone, he still wanted revenge, but changed the object of revenge to "Those who stand in my way from revenge"). In the end, when he was held back, the events of the past 11 years came to his mind, and it was the first time he really gave up.
Some things are easy to pick up and hard to put down. Obsession, planted in our hearts, we become slaves of TA. In real life, some people are addicted to plastic surgery, some people have constant lovers around them, some people are accustomed to pleasing others, some people are entangled in the details, and some people are immersed in painful memories. If you don't want to go out, it's even harder to let go.
a silence for love
There is a long literary play in the middle, about the priest thinking, what is "love":
Brotherhood is not love; teacher-student love is not love. It's just a "preference". What the priest pursues is a kind of great love, fraternity. This kind of love, according to my understanding, is the one we don't often encounter in our lives, but there are a lot of animation works - Our Lady (no derogatory meaning)!
The example of the protagonist's father Thors moving the priest is that he was willing to die himself in order to save his fellow villagers. In my opinion, this is not the best example, after all, Laguna is willing to sacrifice himself for the prince, isn't he? ? It is easier to understand what happened in the first episode of the animation: in order to save the dying slave, he paid a lot of money knowing that it was a pit. This kind of love is already higher than that of fellow villagers, and the preference among relatives is a purer kind of love.
In this way, I can understand the prince's last "cult" sentiment: the cycle of life and death in nature is a kind of great love, a kind of selfless tolerance: even if you were full of evil before, you can use your own blood to feed other creatures ( = offering of love). This point is a bit similar to the Tibetan view of life and death of "celestial burial": the greatest love is in the operation system of the whole world. When we read science fiction, we often feel a sense of loss, that is, we realize the insignificance of human beings and the eternity of time.
Finally, let's talk about the reasons why I like "The Battle of the Ice Sea".
In today's fast-food industry, audiences are increasingly impatient to understand one thing in depth: the articles are boring and no one reads, and the visual and auditory double shocking videos are on the rise. And videos, due to the audience's further loss of patience, are either getting shorter and shorter (the rise of short video platforms such as Douyin), or buried in dense bursts. Therefore, we often see the plots of fan dramas fly up, and the characters' ideas change bluntly. Do you think it's just because the production team is too poor? Don't you see, even a work like Giant is already a "well-known" work. It didn't hit in one episode, it became a dog, and it didn't hit in a season (Wang Zheng), the audience left...
However, life is not like that. Rome wasn't built in a day, and no one grows up in a second. Hayne's Law states: Behind every serious accident, there must be 29 minor accidents, 300 precursors of near misses, and 1,000 hidden accidents. If we only choose the "highlight moment", we will never know the real reason behind it, and there will be no "sense of substitution" and "sense of resonance".
Hope there will be more works like this in the future.
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