'Song of the Sea': It's a Sad Story

Chance 2022-03-24 09:02:33

There is nothing more damaging than the loss of dependence. There is nothing more devastating than the loss of a woman in a family. Women are the link between family members and the core of the entire family. After the core, the story of the whole family begins to become sad, and the movie is such a sad story. The movie uses a simple two-dimensional animation to depict a mythical story full of meaning and sadness. Under the imaginative brush, the sketched scene has a hint of intelligence and wit, but also bold layout and imagination. When it is tapped inside, it not only deconstructs the existence of love and hierarchy behind the sad story, but also reveals the dazzling and complicated inner world. The post-modern style of painting shows the director's description of the animation's inner world, and returns to tradition in a world full of 3D animation with a painting style different from traditional animation. The story interpreted by the very serious behavior style is full of the arrogance of the outdated society, but also full of respect for the warm story. The director values ​​the most real and moving emotions presented in this chaotic world. What he grasps is the most capable of reflecting the real inner changes and blindly hurting feelings, using myths and legends to reflect the outdated society, and using the truth to change the original impossible hierarchy. Love cannot break through everything. It just brings us the courage to break through the boundaries. When reality and choice are placed in front of us, it turns out that love is so fragile and painful.

There is no happiness in the movie. From the very beginning, the director has established such a core purpose. Everything stems from the occurrence of a tragedy. People who cannot merge together and form a family must leave silently. There is no reason. But the reason is so irresistible. It started with a good wish and gradually evolved into a senseless resentment, that is, the helplessness and loneliness brought by the mother's departure, and the disguised anger In the case of the younger sister, the change of this delicate emotion seems unreasonable, but there is always an indelible human nature in it. The director deeply grasped the description of this delicate emotion and guided the emotional development of the story step by step. The clues of the children show the love and forgiveness hidden in their hearts through the pain and irresistible helplessness of the children. The director's use of painting is based on an imagination of innocent children. On the one hand, it expresses the child's cognition of the whole strange world, and it also radiates his own innocent imagination to the world full of fantasy and fear. This adventure in the movie is chaotic. The only thing that is confusing is adding myths to satisfy the interpretation of adventure stories, and using myths to explain how two people with different identities and statuses care about each other and cannot leave each other. In a process, the director used the feelings between brothers and sisters to reflect the love between men and women with different identities. It has to be said that he added a lot of expectations for pure feelings, and temporarily gave up the reality in front of him, and everyone faced the reality. All people are suffering, just like the description in the movie, after stripping all the pain, people will turn into stones, yes, people's feelings are a complex mixture of many pains, in addition to pain, people There are no other feelings, the director actually wants to reflect the theme of the lack of happiness in this society, the hard-to-break hierarchical boundaries and the originally selfish and cruel human nature, the flood of feelings will only make people more miserable, and want to strip out this. This kind of pain, but people will become as emotionless as a stone. Of course, the story is still based on Irish folk myths. It reflects the relationship between a brother and sister and rescues all kinds of elves trapped in pain, so that the world can regain its old appearance, and truly understand oneself and face reality. decisions that need to be made.

Tom Moore uses the construction of geometric figures to highlight the sharp and sensitive feeling that animation brings to people. His deconstruction of regular figures resists dissatisfaction with the outside world with sharp edges and corners. The emotions he wants to express are also very animated. The representative of the character, use the circle to highlight gentleness and kindness, and use the angular shape to represent selfish conflict, let the graphics and graphics change to lead the change of emotions and plots step by step, I have to say that this relatively bold painting style can highlight on the one hand The strong personal style of his own works, on the other hand, also shows the director's uniqueness and uniqueness in expressing the meaning and emotion of his animation works. When we watch this movie, we can deeply appreciate the director's deep dissatisfaction with the world. He seems to see through the nature of the impossibility of human beings to change the world. himself, and thus the story has only an imperfect ending.

This is a sad story, from the beginning to the end, from the beginning to the end, we can't see the bright results from the story, we can only struggle to give up in our own emotional world, we can understand the symbol from the freehand picture The dazed artistic conception, the complex and messy picture is full of confusion of cognition and confusion of feelings. You look at every frame of the picture and feel the feeling behind each picture, all of which exist in an empty soul. Expressing helplessness in the face of the world, the movie is full of expressions of pain, you can't find a trace of happiness, all you can find is that the movie is full of the most real feelings, and in this feeling, you will still choose the dazed unknown .

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Song of the Sea quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Ben: Holey Moley

    [repeated line]

    Ben: Holy Mary and Joseph

    Ben: [to his sister] are you really a selkie?

  • Conor: [on his daughter's seal skin] I threw it away... I should've done it years ago

    Conor: [locks his daughter's seal skin in a chest which he throws overboard] I lost you Bron... I can't lose her as well