From misunderstanding to understanding, from difference to acceptance, all you need is an open and warm heart
This animated film is like an exquisite children's picture book, which tells the story of two children who understand each other through curiosity, accept differences with tolerance, and harvest the different colors of the world with pure and open hearts. Even in an environment where there are multiple conflicts and coexistence between the human system and the natural environment, the ruler and the ruled, the local people and the outsiders, it does not affect the blending of children's hearts and hearts at all.
The style of the film at the beginning of the film presents a strong contrast between the human system and the natural environment.
In the panorama that appears many times in this film, the lines of the distant human town are mainly drawn in straight lines and monotonous, expressing a closed, rigid, serious, solid, and gloomy atmosphere ; while the nearby forest is completely the opposite. The forests are all drawn with curves and colorful, expressing openness, liveliness, brightness and vitality. This is the antagonism and conflict displayed in the tone of the film .
In the picture, the human town as a latecomer only occupies a small area in the upper left corner of the picture, but they selfishly want to annex everything around them. They cannot see all living beings in the forest, and all they see in their eyes is themselves.
Different from the colorful and curvilinear composition of the forest, the human world uses a lot of rough and sharp lines, which accurately express the perspective and mentality of the two worlds when looking at things; the expression of the environment has established the opposition and conflict from the very beginning. keynote.
Character characteristics:
Protector - Unchangeable
This is an extreme character with extreme beliefs and narrow cognitions. He attributes all people and things of different beliefs, regions, bloodlines, and cognitions to the alternative, either brainwashing and taming them or treating them as evil and different. Christian slaughter and eradication. He represents extreme closure and unity , and he is the ruler of the town.
He saw the Irish in the town as uncivilized savages, the English as tools and slaves, and those who were disobedient and rebellious as heretics; and everything outside the city walls was in his eyes. It is an evil beast that can only be destroyed by killing. In his black and white world, he is the whitest person under the light of the Holy Light.
Werewolf Goodfellow - Forced to Change
The father of the little girl Robin, an Englishman imprisoned by the English system, has long lost the courage to pursue freedom, and is regarded as an outsider by the local Irish enemies. Seeking the safety of his family, he has been kneeling to survive and bowing his head for a long time, making him short-sighted and full of fear, but his selfless love for his daughter finally helped him break through the shackles and enter a new world...
Robin - Active Change
A lively girl full of stories about killing wolves, slaying dragons, giants, and witches. She loves adventure and is full of courage. She is proud of her father being the best hunter, and dreams of becoming a wolf hunter like her, even though she has never seen a wolf. When the kind and brave Robin met the wolf walker Maeve for the first time, they became friends. The friendship with Maeve and the experience of being a wolf gave Robin a new understanding of the wolf and the forest...
Maeve the Wolf Walker - Openness and Acceptance
"Wolf Walker" is a very fantasy character created by this animated film. He is a human during the day, and turns into a wolf when he falls asleep. He can also heal wounds with the help of the power of nature. He clearly thinks that humans are stinky but frankly likes "the delicious food in the city", and he is obviously wild and strong but willing to accept the lively and thin Robin. Wolf Walker acts as a bridge between nature and human beings. She lives with her mother in the forest outside the city. While leading the wolves to drive away the humans who cut down the forest, she waits for her mother who has not returned, and meets the little hunter Robin under the arrangement of fate...
Based on the tone of opposition and conflict in the film, these four main characters deduce the vivid process from misunderstanding to understanding, from difference to acceptance between people and between people and animals.
And that's the real theme of the movie --
From misunderstanding to understanding, from difference to acceptance, all you need is an open and warm heart.
Robin, who originally called himself a wolf hunter, had first contact with Maeve and the wolves, and found that the wolves and the wolves not only had no evil to kill, but also helped her heal her bird Merlin. When Robin began to really understand them, he gave up the idea of killing wolves in his heart.
After clearing up the misunderstanding, she was afraid that her father would meet Maeve and the wolves. She neither wanted her father to kill the wolf nor did the wolves hurt her father. Robin began to change.
The climax of the theme of the film is a new experience opened from the perspective of a wolf after Robin transforms into a wolf for the first time. The full three minutes of gorgeous and mysterious pictures are accompanied by the song "running with the wolves", which instantly pulls the audience into the scene. To the forest where all life comes alive under the Northern Lights.
They closed their eyes and listened;
They feel with their limbs;
they run and jump;
They play in the rain, they feel free;
People who make noise in the sun can only see themselves;
Only under the silent starry sky can all creatures be felt;
At this time, Robin finally accepted her difference. She completed the transformation. She enjoyed the freedom she had never felt before, and she no longer had the fear and fear before.
Robin's father is not as open and warm as his daughter. His heart has long been imprisoned by the cage of fear, and he has never dared to take the first step to eliminate misunderstandings. When he first saw his daughter transform into a wolf with his own eyes, the instinct to protect his daughter helped him break the shackles in his heart and gave him the courage to resist. At the time of his daughter's crisis, he instinctively transformed into a wolf shape and fought against the authority of the system, the protector of the country. When he rescued his daughter, he actually completed his self-redemption and regained his freedom.
From misunderstanding to understanding, from difference to acceptance, the little girl Robin is active, her father is passive, and the protector who created the closed town with his own hands, he only has a narrow hierarchy and extreme beliefs in his heart. The heart and soul are completely closed by rights and interests and cannot be changed. The flames in his hands, which symbolize killing, are all outlined with the thickest and sharpest lines, which is why at the end of the film he would rather fall off a cliff and die than accept it. The pity of the "wicked heretics" in his eyes.
In addition to the above four protagonists, there are also Irish natives, a group representing the public. At the beginning of the film, the lumberjack whose scratches were healed by the Wolf Walker changed his attitude towards the Wolf Walker and nature. Imprisoned by the public yoke of the protector.
They respect nature and love life, but they are also imprisoned by the system and interests. This group in the middle of opposition is like most people in reality. Although they are confused, the right to choose is always in their hands.
What kind of people are we going to be?
Like the protector of the country, the heart is closed, rejecting and hostile to all dissidents in the world;
Or like a werewolf, in the cage of money, afraid of stepping out of the comfort zone and not daring to pursue freedom;
Still like two little girls, use an open and warm heart to eliminate misunderstandings, and freely accept the differences around you;
In this regard, the film does not teach us how to choose, but uses a beautiful fairy tale to show us the children's choices and the final outcome.
Life experience should be exchanged for inner strength, not closure;
Even if the world is hot and cold, you should not chill your heart;
That developing and warm young heart may be the true meaning of "May you leave for half your life and return as a young man".
Learn to be a free and wild "Wolf Walker"
Like the theme song "Running With The Wolves"
"My heart is still beating, my skin is still feeling"
"My lungs are still breathing, my heart is still afraid"
With an open and warm heart,
Walk into each other's side, understand each other's past, listen to each other's heart,
We are all different, thank you for adding new color to the world by being different.
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