Xiaobian recently in order to relax the mood, found a 2016 released in China cartoon movie, the whole painting style is very healing, the storyline is actually relatively simple, suitable for children to watch and suitable for big friends to watch when relaxed. (189320224 Tang Xueqin)
The animation film was released in 2014 and in China in 2016 because it is a foreign animation, and it won the Best Animation Award at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2015 and was nominated for several awards. There is also a high rating of 9.2 on Tencent Video. The film is based on an Irish folklore about the elves of Selch. Long before the production of The Secret of the Book of Kells began, director Tom Moore traveled with his wife and children to the west coast of Ireland for a vacation. Heartbroken to see someone on the beach hunting seals, Moore was reading Man in the Sea: A Magical Journey in Search of Seals, which reminded him that seals are lost souls in the sea. He found that people had lost not only the ancient story, but also the respect for nature, and he wanted to change this situation, so he conceived the whole story of the film.
The story begins with a little boy's mother telling a story to the little boy and teaching him to sing, which is very warm, but then because the mother is about to give birth, she finally walks out of the door and never comes back.
After the arrival of his sister Silsa, the little boy believes that the sister has taken away his father's love and left his mother never to come back, so he hates his sister and does not want to take care of her. When my sister was 6 years old, she still couldn't speak, but she had a strong feeling and desire for the ocean. On her 6th birthday, she stumbled upon the conch her mother had left for her brother, blowing the conch and following a group of dots of light to find her clothes. And play happily with the seals.
But because Grandma came out to look for her when she found out and found her being slapped on the surface of the sea by the waves, Dad had to bring his two children to Grandma to live in the city out of safety. But neither of the children wanted to go to the city, so they sneaked out of Grandma's house, and the adventure of the two children home began.
From the way, the brother learns that the fairy tale told by his mother is true, and that his sister is a seal elf, who needs to wear the clothes left by his mother and sing to rescue other petrified elves. But because the sister did not wear the clothes left by her mother for a long time, she was already sick and needed to put them on in time, and the clothes had been thrown into the sea by the father, and in this way, the story of the brother taking the sister home began, that is, during this time, the brother no longer hated the sister.
On the way home, Sisal is captured by the witch Macha, but her brother finds her and defeats Macha with love and courage. Macha the Owl is one of the three goddesses of fate and war in mythology, her name symbolizes "battle" and "anger", and has the alias of "red-haired Macha", in which Macha is black-haired and black-eyed.
Later, while her sister was dying, her brother, with the help of seals, got her clothes on the bottom of the sea, and Silsa sang the song of the elves, freeing all the petrified elves.
Finally, they met their mother, and just as their mother was about to take Sishale away, the brother stopped and begged not to leave, and Sisha also said that he did not want to leave, and in the end, Sishar stayed and lived with his father and brother.
The whole plot can be said to be a more old-fashioned storyline, but the painting style is very healing, it is said to be an animation drawn by hand, and it has a sense of line. It also calls for the protection of nature. The director adapted the story, obviously lamenting why humans cannot coexist and die with seal elves, which is a satire on cruel humans, while at the same time full of pity and lamentation for the natural world polluted by industrialization.
Note: The above pictures, except for the first cover, the rest are from watching screenshots.