The dazzling stars, the vast plains, the magnificent waterfalls, the blizzards all over the sky... an epic and magnificent beauty gives a shocking visual feast. After watching the movie, what impressed me the most about Alpha: The Wolf's Companion Homecoming was the amazing Hobbit-esque epic scene in it.
The film tells the story of an inexperienced and cowardly primitive boy (son of a tribal leader) who unfortunately fell off a cliff while hunting. After waking up, he established a friendship with a wolf, depended on each other, and finally returned to the tribe after suffering. The plot is simple, the narrative is bland, but enough to move.
The protagonist is the son of a tribal leader, but he is cowardly, timid, impatient, and has absolutely no demeanor of his own father. This should have something to do with the doting of parents. But after falling off a cliff he was completely independent. Surprisingly, he is not a coddled son, and he is not as weak as he looks on the surface. He survived under difficult conditions. He escaped from the wolf's mouth, hunted by himself for the first time, and successfully drilled wood to make fire for the first time. This is the growth history of a young person. Only by experiencing hardships and overcoming challenges can a person truly grow up.
Alpha is a she-wolf who was cut by the protagonist while she was besieging the protagonist with the wolves. However, the protagonist did not have the heart to kill her, but took her to the cave to give her water, food, and sterilization of the wound. During this period, Alpha developed feelings for the protagonist, and on the way home, he and the protagonist depended on each other, fought side by side, and finally helped the protagonist return home. The emotion between human and wolf is the theme of the movie, and the movie is relatively successful in dealing with the relationship between human and wolf. Alpha pounces on the tiger to save the protagonist, and the protagonist desperately takes the exhausted Alpha home in the blizzard, etc. These emotions are expressed with great tension. The friendship between humans and animals is sometimes deeper and greater than between humans.
In detail, the language in the film is a fusion language created by Christine Schreyer of UBC Okanagan College in Canada, and it feels very real. The clothes worn by the characters in the film are not textile clothes, but leather clothes, which is not out of reality. The film's attention to detail is pretty good.
However, from the perspective of presentation methods, the narrative style of the film tends to be bland, while the background is epic as grand, although this can give people a visual enjoyment, but the conflicting sides always give people a sense of discomfort , just like eating egg fritters bought from the stall at the Queen's banquet, which is very uncomfortable. At the same time, it was a tribe from 20,000 years ago, but it was as solemn as an empire, without the wildness of primitive people at all. This is also unacceptable.
Generally speaking, Alpha: The Wolf Companion has a grand background, the details are handled in place, and the emotions are full of tension. Although the story is too simple, and the presentation method conflicts with the narrative style, this does not prevent it from being a good work. This movie isn't top-notch, but it's a masterpiece.
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