<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Klaus: The Secret of Christmas</h1>
Christmas, as the grandest holiday in Christendom, has a large number of works in film and television dramas, and even special Christmas specials have been developed, in which Christmas means warmth, friendship, harmony, reunion, and gifts. Professional film critic Alonso Duralde has also published a book to help audiences quickly select quality works from a huge number of Christmas films and televisions.
However, this 2D animation "Klaus: The Secret of Christmas" is different from the previous warmth and friendliness. It is to start with selfishness, violence, hatred, the children of the rich family who nibble on the old and lazy are sent to the ice and snow of the Arctic town, the townspeople are divided into two hostile factions that fight day and night, the children also hate each other, such a terrible place, actually born Christmas?
As the son of the director general of the Postal Service, Jesper is idle and unenterprising every day. His father was furious and sent him to the small town of Smyrensburg in the Arctic Circle to form a post office, and personally completed the delivery of 6,000 letters before he could return home, otherwise he would be deprived of the right to inherit and drink the northwest wind from then on.
So he had a strong desire to survive, and he traveled a long way, and finally the ferry came to this windy place.
Before he could slow down, the boatman teased him to ring the bell, and the residents of the crumbling houses on both sides of the road suddenly rushed out with various weapons and fought.
They were the Erimbo and Krum families, rivals for generations, and the bell was a wake-up call to war. The children of the two families could not play together, they both lived in high-rise buildings full of traps, did not go to school, did not laugh and tremble.
The only thing they worry about every day is fighting, and writing letters is not in their genes at all.
The school became a place to sell stinky fish, and the teacher Alva focused on making money every day and trying to leave early.
Without letters, the task would not be completed, and there would be nothing when you returned. And here it is cold, sooner or later it will be frozen to death, and even innocently killed in the fight between the two families.
Disheartened and about to give up, Jesper's mischievous boatman once again makes a joke of him, luring him to his remote Klaus house.
Klaus was tall, taciturn, and alone in the woods cutting down trees. The home is full of countless exquisite toys.
Jesper was frightened and dropped a picture drawn by a child as he fled in a hurry, Klaus picked it up and looked at it, thoughtfully, and asked Jesper to drive him to town.
Dodging various traps on the wall, Jesper finally delivers the toy to the boy's house. Klaus was infected by the child's happy smile.
Jesper turned from worry to joy and encouraged the children to write to Klaus to get free toys. The children don't write letters, so they go to school, and the school comes back to life.
The lonely Klaus regains the long-lost sense of satisfaction and happiness in the process of giving gifts.
Together, they brought a whole new lease of life to the town and created the myth of Santa Claus.
The film reconstructs Christmas, recombining all the rituals about Christmas traditions and expressing them more humanly, fun and refreshing.
For example, the classic "Jingle Bells" is the alarm bell that appears in the film, which becomes the wedding bell in the later plot.
For example, chimneys and Christmas stockings, which turn into bridges for private houses, Jesper runs through traps to try to stuff gifts into socks that children hang by the fireplace.
For example, the image of Santa Claus in red clothes and white beards in red is also treated as sami children wearing their national costumes to help Klaus distribute gifts, Klaus can not refuse kindness, and since then put on the red clothes they sent, which has since become a classic.
For example, the list of bad boys, the film is a bad boy trickster, Jesper said that all the mischievous children can not get gifts, children after listening to it are trying to help their families do things and study hard, and strive to become good children to get gifts.
Elk, cookies, sleighs, Santa Claus driving the carriage, ho ho ho laughter and all the other things we know about Christmas, the film has a new and wonderful presentation.
Another highlight is the humanization of Santa Claus. Klaus lost his beloved wife and has since lived alone, more withdrawn, immersed in sorrow, the joy of the child's harvest of gifts infected him, and happiness is lost and regained in selfless dedication. The deified characters themselves are cleverly integrated into a sad story, which is very contagious, and the fairy tale treatment at the end of the film is more natural.
The picture is smooth and exquisite, using before and after contrast, the first use of two shades and three (general animation is divided into two-dimensional and three-dimensional, two-dimensional hand-drawn character expressions are more delicate and realistic, three-dimensional movements are more fluid, two-dimensional three makes the character more animated, the shape of the limbs can be changed according to exaggerated creativity, thus reflecting the characteristics of the characters), with the advancement of the plot, the gray and cold painting style is excessive to bright and warm, setting off the inner changes of the characters.
Although Christmas is now over, on such a cold winter day, this kind of family movie is still heart-warming.