This is a 2D animation about religion.
In the film, the patterned scene design and character modeling, especially the composition and color, are highly decorative. The background is simple and has a strong sense of form... After carefully watching the scenes in the movie, each frame can almost be used as a desktop wallpaper.
The city of Kells, Ireland, in the ninth century AD, is a country with its own cultural beliefs. They respect nature and are prohibited from going outside the city walls. This is not only to protect the residents of the city from foreign invaders, but also to restrict everyone from going out. to the wider world wall. The green forest outside the wall is the residence of the ancient gods.
The character Aisling, created by Tom Moore, is lively and lively. Her prototype is a white fox. As a forest guardian, she knows that there is a force that frightens her deep in the jungle, and her family has fallen. In that power, she could only try her best not to get close, not to disturb that power so as to revive him.
The male protagonist Brendan has listened to his uncle about the dangers of the outside world since he was a child, so he never walked out of the high wall until Aidan appeared, he told Brendan: "If you want to defeat the invaders, please use a pious mind to describe the totems of animals and plants and the natural world. Patterns, human history and culture will be handed down forever to have a bright future" and showed him the Book of Kells.
The unseen pictures that swept in took root deeply in Brendan's heart. His yearning for the unknown led him to sneak out of the city wall, met the ancient god Aisling, and with her help, Aidan's unfinished "Kaye" The Bible is filled in completely.
However, a terrible invasion still happened. The northerners invaded the city of Kells, where the high wall was about to be built. Aidan was regarded as the one who brought the war and was expelled. He entrusted the Book of Kells to Brendan. , and continued on his long journey. And Brendan was also locked in the tower by his uncle in the name of protection.
Next is the most emotional part of the whole movie: Aisling sat by the window, singing softly, sending his friend White Cat to his sleeping uncle's pillow, and getting the key for Brendan. Her power is weakening day by day, because of the dark power in the forest, she needs someone who can sing the song of the forest instead of her, so that the forest can exist for a long time.
In the end, Brendan completed the Book of Kells. He became a traveler like Aidan. Although the city of Kelsa is gone, its culture, like the ancient forest where Aisling is hidden, exists in Brendan's manuscripts. , so it became an immortal being, spreading across the land with Brendan's footsteps.
Although it is not stated in the film, the "northern" who invaded Ireland described in the film wore horns. In the real world, the prototype was the Vikings, who had invaded the European coast and the British islands from the 8th century to the 11th century AD; The dark power is ignorance and fear, and it takes a brave and resourceful person to fight back with a brush full of knowledge and power; and the Book of Kells brought by Aidan is also regarded as the Bible.
This is a movie about religion. The ancient cultural beliefs will eventually be continuously impacted and integrated, and will be handed down by the immortal cultural heritage. The city of Kelsa and the ancient forest in the Book of Kells are no longer there. It's pure Irish culture of the past, and they also incorporate stories that Aidan brought from elsewhere and spread far and wide by Brendan.
This animation is full of Irish national colors. The bright and jumping colors tell us that cultural beliefs are not afraid of high walls. If you have a heart, you can have a long history. Like Aisling's soft chants: You must go where I can't.
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