Wolf's Child Rain and Snow is an animated film co-written by Hosoda Mori and Sadoko Okusera. Themed "Parent-Child", it tells the story of a 19-year-old girl who meets and falls in love with a werewolf until their two children grow up to be independent for 13 years.
When talking about the motivation for the production, its director Hosoda Mori said: "There are more and more friends around me who have become parents, and it is at this time that I see that after they become parents, especially those who are mothers, they are particularly dazzling and radiant. So I thought, can I make a movie about parenting? I think this film is to make a movie of the vision I want to experience. ”
He succeeded, and the film touched countless audiences with ordinary parenting stories, winning more than ten awards and bringing him countless praises.
The film tells the story of her mother (Flower) from the perspective of Snow (sister), who was raised by her father in a single-parent family and died in high school, but her father taught her to be a strong girl.
When she was in college, she met a boy in old clothes, and after the two became acquainted and fell in love, the boy thought twice and told Hua his identity, a werewolf.
Hua was not afraid, she resolutely married him, the two performed their duties, and lived a happy life, and soon after, they had two children, snow born sister Snow and rain born on rainy day.
Accidents occurred, shortly after the birth of rain, the father turned into a wolf when he went out hunting, encountered an accident, unfortunately died, even the corpse (wolf form) was treated as an animal corpse by the relevant departments, when seeing the body of the wolf, bored to encounter any difficulties and laughed at the flower sent out her first cry in the play.
But there are still children to raise, there are still many difficulties in the future, spent in a short period of depression after another cheer up, decided to raise two children wholeheartedly to grow up, due to the reason of human-wolf mixed blood, rain and snow can be changed at will between people and wolf forms, rain body is weak, and snow is energetic, adding a lot of trouble to flowers.
In the process of raising children in the city apartment, Hua encountered a lot of difficulties, the rain that cried incessantly in the middle of the night attracted the rebuke of the neighbors, the child's wolf howl was considered to be a pet in the apartment, the inspection of the Child Protection Association... Looking at the two children who did not have a clear position on their identity, Hua Half sighed and asked: "Do you want to be a human being in the future, or do you want to be a wolf?" Looking at the confused expressions of rain and snow, The flower made a decision.
In order to avoid people's eyes and ears and facilitate Rain and Snow to choose their own lives, Flower took them to the countryside, Snow likes here, where her wildness has been released, and Rain is introverted, he looks at the big bad wolf in the book and thinks of himself, asking Flower: "Why are wolves all big bad guys, they will be defeated and killed by everyone." I don't want to be a wolf. The flower gently affirmed him.
With the passage of time, the strength and efforts of the flowers have been recognized by the villagers, and everyone has enthusiastically given the flowers help, and the flowers that originally came to the countryside in order to avoid people's eyes and ears have received the attention and help of the villagers, and also given the peanuts the confidence to live.
The family's savings were running low, so Hua found a job and sent snow and rain to school, and under The careful care of the flower, the two children gradually decided their own path.
At school, the lively snow made many friends, she began to realize that she was different from other girls, she felt very shy, and gradually retracted her wild nature, making herself look like other girls, gradually abandoning her wolf side and gradually integrating into human society.
And rain is not good at communication, was bullied, gradually he no longer went to school, he met an old fox in the mountains, he worshiped the fox as a teacher, the fox taught him the skills of survival and hunting, rain gradually left human society and became a qualified wolf.
The transformation of the two was reasonable, natural and smooth, without any sense of abruptness, and as the differences between the sisters and brothers grew, a fierce conflict broke out between the two.
The mountain rained continuously, the old fox was injured, the time was short, the rain was getting longer and longer in the mountains, hua was very worried about the safety of the rain, when the rain expressed her intention to leave home to take over the teacher's care of the forest, she said anxiously to the rain: "You can't go to the mountains anymore, you are only ten years old, you are still a child, even if ten years old is an adult for the wolf..."
At this point, the voice of the flower suddenly stopped, and she realized that the age of ten was an adult for the wolf, and the love, understanding and reluctance of the child were mixed together, and she could only say: "Please, don't go to the mountains, this is her mother's request." ”
Rain seems to have heeded Hua's advice, and life has returned to daily life, until a very heavy rainstorm hit, bringing about the most important turning point in the lives of the two brothers and sisters.
Snow, trapped in the school by heavy rain, reveals his identity to his friends and is understood, finding a partner he can trust.
Rain also made a decision, and after taking his mother who had come to the forest to find himself to safety, he turned and walked toward the mountain, but was stopped by the waking flower. Flower looked at his back and asked, "Rain, are you going to go, but..."
Then she said something I would never have thought of as a parent
I haven't done anything for you yet
She said to herself, who had poured ten years of hard work, "I haven't done anything for you yet." ”
I thought about many kinds of words that I kept before parting, but when I heard this sentence, my eyes blurred instantly, and the film's ability in portraying facial expressions was also three points, and my expression after hearing this sentence was almost the same as the expression of rain.
Stunned and puzzled
Everyone has the desire to get everything, but not everyone has the courage to give everything, and those who give at all costs and don't ask for anything in return are enough to make us call great heroes.
Hua is undoubtedly a great mother, but his feelings for her children are not a special case, this is the dedication and love that every qualified mother in the world will pour into her children, which is both ordinary and universal, and great and dazzling.
This anime tells such an ordinary and universal story that can resonate with many audiences, with a warm pulse and endless evocation.