When I was a child, my mother asked me, who was obsessed with cartoons: Will you watch cartoons until you are eighty? Now that I'm halfway through my eighties, I still like cartoons. Although maybe my world is getting bigger and bigger and I like more and more things, cartoons are not as obsessed as they used to be, but deep down I still love cartoons. The film retains its place, not only until the age of eighty, but at the end of its life. After the baby was born, I took Dengdeng Miaoyu into countless cartoons, because I wanted to watch with them what I once loved, and what I still like now. As they grow older, they must dislike some of me. Once liked, obsessed with some I don't like, it doesn't matter, we will all like cartoons. After watching "The Secret of the Book of Kells" and "Song of the Sea", Tom Moore is another cartoon director I like, and I really like and yearn for Ireland as a country and nation, where the first generation of Europeans lived there. The Celts, the descendants of the inhabitants, have this long culture and history, and have repeatedly produced prodigies in the fields of art, music, literature, and creation... "Odin and His Children" is the free and rough of Norse mythology, " Gulliver's Travels, the giant country and the Lilliputian country, the pinnacle of stream-of-consciousness literature "Ulysses", the Cranberries and the song "Never grow old" that I liked very much in college are the singles for writing papers. song cycle. In modern times, the most tragic is the colonial war between Ireland and England. In the winter of 2004, I took an overnight boat from Liverpool to Belfast. The news on the bumpy boat was about bank robberies, Irish police and people. Conflict, on the way to take in my host family after landing, I saw many buildings surrounded by high walls. I thought it was a prison, but it was actually a police station. That year, I spent the first white Christmas in my life. It was an unforgettable trip in my life without crossing the border to Ireland. In such a beautiful place, such a peaceful and joyful festival, there are still traces of conflict in the mottled and black brick walls. These are also the era backgrounds that Tom Moore's latest cartoon "Wolf Walker" needs to know: what happened in this land around 1650? In 1649, Cromwell, the all-powerful class revolutionary leader, executed King Charles I of England after quelling the English Civil War, and then suppressed the domestic uprising and expedition to Ireland. Under Cromwell's brutal suppression, two-thirds of the Irish territory was destroyed. Famous for Britain, about a third of its inhabitants died and thousands of Irish residents were exiled to desolate places.…
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Against this background, "Wolf Walker" tells the story of hunter Bill and his daughter Robyn who followed Loardof Protector to Ireland to slaughter wolves. The younger daughter Robyn secretly followed her father to slaughter wolves and broke into the forest. The little wolf who is a bit careless and jumping like Erha, this little wolf also saved her eagle. In order to save Robyn who was hanged by the trap, the little wolf accidentally bit Robyn, and later the little wolf returned as a soul body. The body of a little girl turned into a red-haired Mebh full of wild freedom and happiness. It turned out to be a human when she was awake, but she turned into a wolf when she fell asleep, and can command the wolf pack. The one with healing power is the wolf walker, which is also a wolf. Walker's Mebh mother was asleep. Although it is known that Mebh is a wolf walker, the two innocent girls quickly become friends. (On the children's openmindedness and acceptance of courage and heart, 10,000 words are omitted here)
With the forest and yearning for freedom, Robyn was taken back to the imprisoned town by her father Bill who wanted to protect her, and for her good (familiar?) let her go to the bathroom to work, but at night, when Robin fell asleep, her soul Out of body turned into a wolf. After being bitten by the wolf runner, Mebh's treatment on her did not work, and she also became a wolf runner. She turned into a wolf and left the town, shuttled through the mountains and waterfalls with Mebh, and played freely. When she went back, she was hunted down by humans, broke into the castle by mistake, and saw the captured Mebh's mother, a giant wolf. At this time, the protector of the country repeatedly talked about domestication (tame), using religion, power and violence to domesticate a wild wolf, domesticate a human and a region that was uncivilized in his eyes, and domesticate his own compatriots. After experiencing the fear of death, Rohyn surrendered, she compromised to do the endless cleaning lady in the bathroom, to protect Mebh she let the children in the street put her in a cage, like imprisoning her to protect her The same rules as her father and the protector of the country, she called "No" feebly but no one listened. The conflict was broken, the giant wolf rushed out of the cage and took Robyn to the edge of the forest to join Mebh and the wolves. At this time, Robyn's father shot Mebh's mother (giant wolf), and the children fled to the depths of the forest in order to save the mother. Habitat, Duke Protector led the army to burn down the forest and slaughter the wolves. The conflict broke out to a certain point, and the father who endured the humiliation and submissive became a wolf at the critical moment because he was bitten by Mebh (a familiar setting of vampires and zombies), and finally defeated the protector of the country, a miracle occurred, and the mother was saved. The family of four Drive a carriage surrounded by flowers and take the wolves to the farther forest.
Since the birth of a work, there have been countless possible interpretations, just as there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, this film is full of all kinds of expressive expressions: oppression and the struggle of the oppressed; The contradiction between spiritual growth and the confinement of rules; the eternal theme of environmental protection; the conflict between the spiritual home of mankind and the religion, town, civilization, class, etc. generated by modernization... I asked Miao Miaoyu which part she liked the most, and she said it was the last The most exciting climax of the fight, but I like to drive the carriage and go to the free country where the flowers are blooming at the end. Maybe I will love cartoons until I am 80 years old, but I will no longer watch cartoons from the perspective of a child forever. From the perspective of a mother, the other touching thing this cartoon brings to me is the role of parents. set up. In the book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", mythological master Joseph Campbell tells us that the hero's journey consists of the following main stages.
- Departure: Abandon the current situation and enter the field of adventure;
- Enlightenment: gaining some kind of understanding expressed in a symbolic way;
- Test: fall into danger, fight with fate;
- Return: Finally return to the field of normal life again.
This is the only road every hero must go through, and this is the blueprint for almost all stories. The hero who overcomes personal and historical limitations, or the protagonist alludes to this road of our growth as a human being, and the beginning of this road of growth. The most tragic and tragic first victory was the parents. This is also why in many stories, the protagonist either has no parents, or one parent is missing, or one parent is a big boss that needs to be defeated. Father-killing is very common in the mythology of any ethnic group. In Greek mythology, the Titan god Cronus defeated Uranus, the god of the sky with the help of his mother Gaia, and Zeus overthrew the rule of Uranus. Kingship may be the cruelty of life and death, but ordinary people cannot escape. To have an independent personality and become an independent individual, they must be separated from their parents. Parents must be strong and must be defeated. Therefore, gradually, the patrilineal and maternal lineages are differentiated. The traditional way of saving mothers and defeating fathers in adult human culture. In "Wolf Walker", Bill as a father, his love for Robyn is to keep Robyn safe no matter what danger he is in and what grievances he endures, and hope to be with her forever and protect her, "This for your own good", imprisoned in the name of love, because this love is one-sided love, I love you, I know what is best, so you must obey me; Mebh's mother's love for Mebh lies in She taught Mebh what her truest soul is and embraces her truest self with her, but you are still too young, waiting to return, which is also the love of the protector. Generation after generation, various complex emotions and cultures that cannot be explained make it impossible for parents and children, the closest people, to truly communicate. The conflict between children and parents is the conflict of growth, and it is the mutual incomprehension between the two camps. , Often with the passage of time, they have to go through a lot of pain, quarrels, fights, escape, power and coercion, and finally break up. Children grow into independent individuals. Parents must let go and allow and accept children to become independent individuals. the process of. This is adolescence and adolescence, it is a young yearning to go far away, and it is the nuclear power that starts your own life, which is full of destructiveness and power. In the movie, when Bill says "Iamafraid", when the father returns to become a wolf, and when the mother is resurrected, this miracle is not only another revelation for our children to break free from their cages and find themselves, as parents, as a life pressure The adults below, we want to speak out in addition to being a stepping stone to the story, and I'm terrified. Once, we were also carefree teenagers who were not afraid of being lost, but when we became parents, we respected the world and life. Let us surrender and compromise willingly, just to leave a small safe place for you to grow up in this stormy world. From the day you were born, I have been filled with fear, fear of disaster, fear of impermanence, fear of disease, fear of loss.... But is there no hope for all adults, all parents? In addition to becoming a firewood to light up the distance for children, in addition to leaving blood to pave a smooth road, apart from sacrifice, is there no other choice? After all, in this year when human lifespan has been greatly extended, parents still have a long time to experience, and the same brave and rich souls live in their bodies, so I am deeply grateful for the ending of this movie, don't Leave us behind and let's go to the free country where the flowers are blooming. 2020718
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