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Archibald 2022-03-23 09:02:38

On the evening of the 22nd of this month, I got my wish to see the first screening of "Son of the Wolf Rain and Snow" in Hong Kong at the MCL Telford Cinema. It seems that the first show is the only show that is full. When I watched it twice the next day, the theater was obviously left with more vacancies. I don't care how many times I watch the same movie because I really like it.

At the beginning of the movie, in the golden flower sea, the protagonist Ah Hua was lying in the flower field with a smile, turned her head slightly, and saw a wolf figure in the distance gradually approaching. Having read the manga, I naturally felt that this scene touched me for the first time.

There are very few scenes where Ah Hua and Dad Lang have dialogues. In the trivial matters of Nissan between Dad and Ah Hua, after Ah Hua is pregnant, and the scenes where Dad Daddy dies, they all use the insertion of background music instead of dialogue. It's so little that it can be ignored, but it can impress and shock the audience.

There is very little space about the wolf father, and it is basically used as an introduction, and even the reason for his death is just a brushstroke. It was the part where he died, even though there was no background music, only the noisy sound of rain. "A wolf's body was lying on the artificial river. The staff who got off the garbage truck picked up the wolf's body and put it in a bag. Ignoring the woman with two children, they just put the body with the body in it. The bags were thrown into the garbage truck in order and left the scene."

Although the space is small, we can at least know from the episodes of his life that he was a good father and a good husband. But what Wolf Dad and Ah Hua said became the main line of the whole story - "What kind of people will the children grow into?"

Ah Hua is also a good mother in the play, optimistic and single-minded by nature, and even looks quite Some are naive and even natural.

Quietly waiting in front of the coffee shop on winter nights, waiting for the arrival of Father Wolf, without complaining, he just smiled blankly and said to Father Wolf, "Great, you are here."

A gust of wind blew in the wild, Ah The man in front of Hua turned into a werewolf. Although A Hua was surprised, he was not frightened by him. That night, Father Wolf asked A Hua: "Are you afraid?", "You are shaking", "Would you like to see each other again."

And Ah Hua shook her head and replied softly, "No, because that's you." She affirmed that she loved Wolf Dad, and did not deceive and reject her love for him just because he was a werewolf. Pushed down by him. (This is correct)

After Xiaoxue ingested dehumidifier by mistake, she was worried about whether to send her to the hospital or the veterinary hospital; in order to prevent outsiders from discovering the identities of the two siblings, she avoided various social registrations, and was finally accepted by the Children's Consultation Office. Rebuked for "ignoring the life of the child" and "you are abusing the child", and she could only cry aggrievedly and say "please go back" and closed the door, watching the two children sleep soundly, and she could only Endure the pressure of all aspects of human society.



The two children, A Xue and A Yu, have both embarked on their own paths, but before they really set foot on the road, they have tried to reject half of their own

. It was only during the interaction of her life that she realized that she was different from an ordinary little girl, so she began to suppress her wolf nature; in the misunderstanding, after hurting Kusanagi in a werewolf state, she finally refused to be half of the wolf and deceived herself.

Xiaoyu, who has been introverted and cowardly since childhood, is inferior to her sister in all aspects; she has tried to reject herself as a wolf since she was a child, but she accepted it because of Ah Hua's enlightenment; Friends, and gradually began to hate school, germinated the yearning for nature and finally went to the road of wolves.

I can't help but wonder, did society change them, or did their personality change them?

In that torrential rain, A Xue's frank acceptance of his identity as a human and a wolf, A Yu's extreme middle-class behavior and a long howl at the waterfall at the end gave me the greatest moving.


At the end of the movie, A Xue went to junior high school and lived in the dormitory provided by the school, and he seldom returned home since then; A Yu inherited the job of Teacher Fox and maintained everything in the mountains; A Hua sat alone in the house and squinted his ears with satisfaction. Listen to a wolf howl from the mountains.

I often think about this episode and ask my own questions. Does Ah Yu, who is close to home, come home from time to time to visit Ah Hua, who lives alone? Has A Xue also contacted A Hua from time to time?

I think this question is a matter of opinion, but for Ah Hua, she doesn't care. Because Ah Hua firmly believed that no matter which way she went, she would be happy.

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Wolf Children quotes

  • [after Revealing to Hana that he is a Werewolf]

    Wolf Man: Were you surprised?

    [She nods]

    Wolf Man: Do you want to break up?

    [Hana shakes her head]

    Wolf Man: But you're trembling, are you scared?

    Hana: No.

    [pause]

    Hana: Because you're you.

  • [to The Wolf Man]

    Hana: I'll welcome you back home.