One day we all turned to stone and resurrected in the old ballads to go home

Linnea 2021-12-25 08:01:39

"Song of the Sea" is the second animated feature film by Irish director Tom Moore, adapted from Irish folklore-Ben and Saoirsa are brothers and sisters, mother Brona was thrown into the sea when Saoirsa was born, the two of them and their father Live each other in the lighthouse on the cape. Ben gradually discovers that his mother's relic has strange magical powers, and the annoying little sister has mysterious powers that can awaken elves...
This cartoon was nominated for this year's Oscar, and eventually lost to "Big Hero 6". I don't like the latter. Although there is such a pleasing role as Da Bai, I still can't get rid of Disney's usual stale routines. If you make a comparison, "Song of the Sea" is literature or poetry, while "Big Marine Corps" is only a decent online novel.
"Song of the Sea" is a hand-drawn animation, each frame of the picture contains the characteristics of splendor and innocence, and each note sings joy and sadness at the same time. The process of watching the movie is fascinating, the only word I can think of is: inconceivable.
Think about it later, this word is indeed suitable to describe this cartoon.
"Incomprehensible things" is extended to the extent that the (beautiful) things cannot be compared with all things in the world. It comes from the "Mandarin • Under Chu Yu" written more than two thousand years ago: "The decline of Shaobao, Jiuli chaotic virtues, gods of the people Miscellaneous, not square things." "Fangwu" refers to distinguishing the name, real or name of things. In the ancient legends of our nation, there was a period in ancient times when people and gods lived together, and it was impossible to distinguish who was a person and who was a god. "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty•The Biography of Zhang Heng" also has "people and gods are bothered, and you can't square things."
In Ireland, folklore and mythology are also inextricably intertwined with history in this ancient Celtic residence. For example, the Giant’s Causeway, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, extends from the cliffs of the Antrim Plateau into the sea. Legend has it that it is the masterpiece of the giant Finn McCool in order to reach Scotland and live there. The giants on the side competed against each other. In the film, the lighthouse promontory where Ben and Saoirsa live with their father is a giant that turned into rock in sorrow.
The Irish masters such as Yeats, Beckett, Wilde, and Joyce all benefited from the nourishment of this culture. At the end of the nineteenth century, Yeats roamed the northwest coast of Ireland to collect the scenery, and compiled and recorded a collection of Irish myths and legends-"Celtic Twilight" with the words of poets. The content of the book is all-encompassing, with elves, ghosts, gods, humorous stories and country legends emerging one after another, which outlines a world where reality and gods blend. "All of this exists, it's true, the world is just a piece of dust under our feet.
" The cartoon "Song of the Sea" seems to be from ancient Ireland, from the book "Celtic Twilight" "We are flawed and imperfect... the immaculate and perfect'world' still exists,... the purer ones among the fairies and elves live there... with the tender weeping sound of the violin , Mourning our fallen world... They are destined to continue their tragic songs, and we are destined to continue weeping until the door of eternity opens faintly."
I think anyone who likes "Song of the Sea" can receive a password from a more distant world from it, and activate the childish soul that has been obscured by the red dust for a long time. Yeats said in the preface of the reprint of "Celtic Twilight", "However, as a person grows older, his dreams are no longer light; he starts to weigh his life with his hands, and he prefers fruits rather than flowers-perhaps this is nothing. Significant loss."
Maybe.
One day we were all turned into stone, and then resurrected in ancient ballads, and went home.
But some people will always be stones and never return home.
Wisdom comes with time
, although many branches
root but only one
through all of my youth lying the day
I shake off my branches and flowers in the sun
now I can wither into the truth (Yeats)
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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