At a time when domestic animations were constantly proclaiming that they had "honed a sword in ten years" and "the conscience of domestic animations", there was an animation that was shown abroad two years ago, which was quietly introduced into China, giving those exquisite no-nonsense A nice slap in the face.
It is "Song of the Sea"
This film was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film at the 87th Academy Awards and won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Animated Feature at last year's Shanghai Film Festival
The story of "Song of the Sea" is not complicated, and it is estimated that many people already know it.
It is based on European mythology and tells the adventure saga of two children.
The little boy Ben lives on an island with his father and sister. His mother left them when he gave birth to his sister Saoirse, so Ben is full of resentment against Saoirse, he doesn't like this sister.
Their father has been immersed in grief because of his wife's departure. Their grandmother wanted to bring the children to live on land.
But the children didn't like life on land. At this time, Ben discovered that her mother was a legendary seal girl, and Saoirse inherited her mother's blood. If she didn't go back to the island and find the clothes of the legendary seal elf, Saoirse would will die.
So Ben tried his best to take Saoirse back to the island. On the way back, he found that all the myths that his mother once told: elves, owl witches, giants turned into stone are true!
In the end, Saoirse put on the seal suit and saved all the elves. Between becoming a seal girl and losing his spiritual power, Saoirse chose to stay by his father's side, and the family lived happily together.
There are two story lines in this movie, one is in real life, Ben and Saoirse's father is immersed in the sadness of his wife's departure, and grandma tries her best to let the family live a normal life.
Another is a fairy tale in which the owl witch sucked his emotions and turned him into stone in order not to grieve her lost lover's son.
The images of the two groups of characters are very consistent
Combined with the Irish legend that the human soul will become a seal.
Maybe the story is actually from Ben's perspective:
Ben's mother passed away due to dystocia, leaving behind his autistic sister Saoirse and his father who was overwhelmed by grief. Ben and Saoirse were taken to the land city by their grandmother, but they were very uncomfortable. Ben wanted to take Saoirse back to the island.
Along the way, they passed the grass and the ocean. Ben remembered all the fairy tales his mother told him. When we were young, we all thought the stories were true.
Saoirse can't speak, but can sing, this setting is also in line with the characteristics of autistic children
When the seal elf sings, all the elves return to spirit In the world, Ben can no longer see the characters in the fairy tale, which means that Ben grows up.
In this way, this story about growing up is both sad and beautiful.
Director Tom Moore's creative inspiration came from many years ago when he took his 10-year-old son to the beach to play, and saw many fishermen kill a large number of seals in order to make a living. He was told that such a thing would never have happened before, because the fishermen used to believe that seals were the souls of the dead, that is selkie, that is the seal girl.
For seven years, Tom Moore used his unique style to construct a beautiful fairy tale world with geometric figures and abstract lines, and each picture is exquisitely called a work of art.
Tom Moore's success actually stems from his confidence in his own culture. His last "The Secret of the Book of Kells" was also based on Irish national legends and was also nominated for an Oscar.
Our popular domestic animations in recent years, such as "Big Fish and Begonia", although on the surface it seems to be telling a Chinese story, it is still the core of Hollywood commercial movies, and the picture is still in the Try to expand appropriately on the basis of realism to ensure the smoothness of the action.
Where is the charm of our true culture?
"Song of the Sea" was released for 11 days, and the cumulative box office was only 14.77 million. Although the resources on the Internet are already overwhelming
, some movies must be watched on the big screen once in a lifetime. This is the case with "Song of the Sea".
It does not have the love triangle of "Big Fish and Begonia", the green tea bitch
, the shameless plagiarism of "Automobile"
, and the American heart under the domestic coat of "Rock Tibetan Mastiff", but
it brought Irish folklore to the world and won praise .
For that alone, Song of the Sea deserves our respect.
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