"The Secret of the Book of Kells ": It's about survival A woman in the mortal world, now in the fifth life, and a sea god in the next life; the legend of reincarnation has been passed down from generation to generation, and at the opening of the movie, like a storyteller of memories, the forest elves are still in the depths of the jungle. Looking at this changing world with those crystal eyes, I have lived for many years, I have changed carp, deer, and wolf... I have seen suffering and suffering in the dark, but when I was most vulnerable There is hope for seeing beauty. There are no complicated plots and no magnificent rhetoric. A good movie just tells a simple yet warm feeling.”
——Inscription (excerpted from the Internet)
2009 is Chinese The year of bad movies is also the year of splendid animation. This year's cartoons have pushed the cartoon industry to a peak in terms of output ratio and cost-effectiveness. Looking ahead, maybe the prosperity of animated skins in 2009 benefited from the inspiration of the 2008 "rock-breaking" work "Robot Wall-E", which allowed the director and the audience to see an animation that is more humanistic than an excellent drama film. Caring and compassionate feelings, seeing the throbbing and warmth brought to the hearts of the audience by the silent film images in the first half hour, and seeing a cartoon can also achieve the heroic spirit of "distinguishing the heroes".
So, in 2009, we saw a lot of excellent cartoons. After watching "Flying House", we continued to worship Pixar spontaneously. After watching "Mary and Marx", I realized that "Flying House" is not the best cartoon this year. The Australian clay cartoon "Mary and Max" was not nominated for this year's Oscar for best animated feature, much to the indignation of fans, but another Irish national-style cartoon "The Secret of the Book of Kells" was nominated for the best nomination. , at any rate to make up for the regret that "Mary and Marx" was not selected, and added a strong humanistic atmosphere and exotic flavor to the best animation section.
Best Animated Feature Film Nominees:
"Ghost Mom"
"Fantastic Daddy Fox"
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of the Book of Kells The Book of Kells: The Book of Kells, also known as the Book of Kells (
Leabhar
Cheanannais in Irish), is a gilded Codex, one of the early examples of graphic design. It was painted by Celtic monks on the island of Iona in western Scotland around 800 AD. Consisting of four New Testament Gospels, the book is a richly decorated manuscript copy of the Gospels of the Bible in Latin. There is a beautiful illustration at the beginning of each short essay, and there are a total of 2,000 illustrations in the book. The Book of Kells is a representative work of Western calligraphy, representing the peak of Irish island art and painting, and is also recognized as the most precious national treasure in Ireland.
The Secret of the Book of Kells is an animated feature film with a strong ethnic and religious style. Its delicate strokes like watercolor paintings, and lines full of ethnic and religious colors, the whole film uses hand-painted elements, colors and totems to interweave into this artistic masterpiece of animation. The whole film reflects that in the face of barbarians with strong ships and cannons, their strength is far stronger than our alien aggression. We should fight with eggs and rely on fortifications that seem to be "copper walls and iron walls" to resist, or choose to flee and save "wisdom". Seeds", continue the cultural inheritance, without the interruption and regression of civilization.
Involving the process of human civilization and social development, this film is already exploring and thinking about the future, destiny and historical trend of mankind. And provides a possibility that the culture will not be destroyed, and the civilization will recover the world. Even if the burning, killing and looting of barbarians will turn a certain period into a dark and terrifying disaster for mankind, and human civilization will undergo a serious setback, "a single spark can start a prairie fire", and "the seeds of civilization" are buried deep in the soil, until the wind blows. , "The wildfire can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows again", "A thousand sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and a thousand trees spring ahead of the sick tree!"
War and peace, civilization and culture. In the course of human history, there have been too many similar stories. Burning books and beating Confucians, World War I, World War II and other distinctive historical coordinates stand there abruptly. The world has changed and time has changed. Look back at the road you have traveled. , understand that human beings should always move forward a little bit every day towards a better life, and even if they stay where they are, they must not step back.
After talking about the plot structure based on the Nordic legend and the famous Irish classic "The Book of Kells" (a picture manuscript of the Gospel), let us reflect on the cultural atmosphere under the current national conditions. With the mushrooming of Confucius Institutes, and the constant chatter of Aunt Yu Dan, a gratifying "Renaissance"-like craze for Chinese studies has emerged in China. Putting aside the phenomenon of Sinology, let’s first define what is Sinology? There is a playful definition by a professor of Peking University: In fact, Sinology is the study of a country without a country, because it was not called that before, or it was said that Sinology was an institution of "Guozijian" rather than a cultural term. Why is it suddenly called Sinology? It was when Western culture invaded since the Manchu Qing Dynasty, suddenly the Chinese scholar-bureaucrat class felt a crisis from both the court and the opposition, and felt that the culture of our country was about to perish. At this time, the word suddenly appeared, we must defend the guoxue, this In fact, under the threat of the West, Sinology came up with such a word under the sense of crisis, and there was no such word before. Therefore, Sinology is often linked with the four characters of "existence and death".
From this point of view, the word "guoxue" has some kind of connection with the movie "The Secret of the Book of Kells". The world's culture does not separate families and should not separate families. To some extent, between countries and ethnic groups The most fundamental and essential values are the same, such as the Confucian "do not do to others what you do not want to do to yourself", and the morality of "truth, goodness and beauty" as a human being, all are the same in the world, and they are applicable everywhere, Christian doctrine, Islamic doctrine. , the American "Declaration of Freedom", etc. are all involved, not the original patent of a certain country, a certain nation, or a certain saint. Every culture is the precious wealth of all mankind and the eternal ladder of social progress.
2010-2-26
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