After five years, director Tom Moore returned with healing, childlike and iconic ethnic elements, bringing with him the third work in the Irish legend series, "Wolfwalker".
In 1650, due to the large number of wolves in the forest and the expansion of the town was hindered, the Protectorate ordered Goodfello to come to Ireland to hunt wolves with all his might. Daughter Robin follows her father to this strange land, and she wants to explore the forest with him and become the best hunter. But her father only let her stay in the city and work as a maid in the residence of the Protector.
The process of the two girls meeting is not harmonious: Robin, who is hanging from the trap rope, mistakenly thinks that Maeve in the form of a wolf is going to eat her, and the rope breaks during the struggle, and Robin is bitten.
But the innocent become friends, and Robin realizes that wolves are not the heinous villains of the song. She wanted her father to stop hunting wolves, but the blind father just blamed her for going to the forest again, and didn't listen to the explanation at all.
Things changed subtly at this point, and the bitten Robin turned into a wolfwalker.
Faced with an obsessive father and a brutal protector, Robin and Maeve have to find a way to find their missing mother and save the wolves and the forest...
However, robin, who was not satisfied with the status quo, sneaked into the forest. Here, she meets Maeve, a girl who is a "wolf walker". Maeve and her mother lead the wolves in the forest to guard the territory, while the mother who transformed into a wolf spirit has not returned recently.
The rough brushstrokes and dreamlike pictures, like the picture books we saw when we were children, have a kind of pure and pure. In the story, there is not too much complicated human nature, straight forward, there is no side oblique plot, it is really like a bedtime fairy tale for children, and with the solemnity and deep groaning for adults. In such a story, there are rough seas and heroic and kind little soldiers, coupled with exotic environments, ancient times and the unique mood of Celtic music, the whole gives people a clear and clean, uplifting but also sad feeling.
The secrets of the Kyle Sutra and the song of the ocean come from the visual amazement to the refinement of the wolf walker's painting style and the charm of the real hand-drawn animation. The story is highly completed, I like this fantasy story about wolves, the barbaric expansion of civilization makes arrogant human beings infinitely greedy encroach on the nature on which living creatures live together, wantonly destroy the ecological environment, weave various cages in a vain attempt to tame all living creatures, practice has proved that these are not feasible. The two girls are attracted to each other because of their individual differences, and because of their common beliefs, the father who transforms into a wolfwalker finally guards Max, and the family of four is far away from the hustle and bustle and returns to the empty nature.
Tom Moore's unique scenes and pictures give "Wolfwalker" the physical beauty of an animated film, and the fairy tale composed by the pursuit of freedom and embracing nature casts the soul of the film.