The painting style and soundtrack are undoubtedly beautiful, but the logically criticized places can also be explained. The following are some of my own views:
1. Although there are stories similar to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in Irish mythology (hiding the fairy clothes, the fairy was forced to marry the Tibetan clothes man, and the fairy left after finding the clothes), but Brona and Connor are in free love, a seal girl In love with an ordinary human man. It can be seen from the beginning of the film that Brona was wearing a seal suit and accompanied Connor, indicating that Connor did not hide her clothes. According to the setting of the myth, the seal girl who got her clothes would leave immediately, but Brona in the movie did not.
2. The seal girl has a mission to put on her coat and sing to send the elf home, otherwise she will become weak (hair turns white) and die. The seal girl can only live on land for a period of time without dressing or singing. As for how long this "period" is, it depends on God's will.
3. Brona's "some time" just in time, graying hair was an omen, but she happened to be pregnant. If she puts on clothes and sings, then she can save herself, and in doing so she must leave the human world, and the unborn Saoirse must also leave the human world with her because she is a seal girl. But she doesn't want to leave the human world, and she doesn't want Saoirse to leave Connor and Ben, but she is already very weak, and if Saoirsa is born, then she will die (dystocia). Shirona chose the latter, leaving Saoirse behind. So before leaving, she kept apologizing to Connor and kept saying "Save the child" to Connor.
4. When Shirona was born, this "period" of Shirona did not end, so Shirona would not be weak and continue to nurture Ben.
5. After losing Shirona, Connor lost his energy and neglected to care for his children. Connor didn’t understand Hirona’s departure, thinking that the coat was the reason for Hirona’s departure. So they locked Saoirse's coat (tie Saoirse, don't want to lose Saoirse). When Sao Erza took out her coat to wear, she was even more afraid of Sao Ersa leaving and threw her coat into the sea.
6. The elder brother thought that Sao Ersa's arrival took away his mother, so he hated Sao Ersa. But he was actually in love with his sister Saoirse.
7. Since she was a child, she did not have enough love from her father and the hatred from her brother, which made her a little autistic and reluctant to speak.
8. You can speak when you put on a coat, because, first, the coat has divine power, and second: when you put on the coat, it is the time of redemption, and Saoirse can naturally speak when she is relieved.
7. This mission is performed once for every generation of seal girls. Since Shirona is of pure elf blood, it is inferred that Saoirse's grandmother performed it once. Hirona came to the human world from the elf world, fell in love with Connor, wanted to accompany Connor, chose not to execute it, or waited until she had to wait to execute it again. (For the sake of children's love, he gave up his mission). Sao Ersa performed her mission and should have left, but because of her human blood, destroying her coat can become a pure human and stay in the human world.
8. Every year, naughty elves come to play in the human world and forget the way home, so it takes generations of seal girls to call them home.
9. Saoirse jumping from the well is an instinctive reaction of the seal attribute.
Movies adapted from fairy tales should be understood in conjunction with the prototype of the fairy tale. As for the plot, maybe that's the case with mythology. To be careful, many myths cannot stand up to logical scrutiny. The film can be recreated to tell the story better.
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