As the title, the animated film "Wolf Walker", which has been shortlisted for 110 awards such as the Oscar for Best Animation and has won 37 awards, is finally going to be released nationwide, which is indeed a happy news that makes people happy.
In the past, I have experienced the animation film "Song of the Sea" created by the same animation company - Cartoon Salon on the big screen, with beautiful pictures, melodious soundtrack, and a story with a strong sense of immersion, all of which make people fascinated. The most rare thing is that both "Song of the Sea" and "Wolfwalker" are hand-drawn animated films. You know, although we once became famous in the world with a series of hand-drawn animations, based on the huge consumption of energy, financial resources and material resources, we later had no choice but to break the file, and we have not yet revived the majesty of traditional Chinese animation. And a bunch of Irish animators, able to create a "Wolf Walker" in five years of meticulous creation, is indeed the luck of animation fans around the world.
The story of "Wolf Walker" is not difficult to understand, the plot takes place in the distant past, the human beings who open up the city and the animals that inhabit the forest for generations have become enemies who do not share the heavens, especially between humans and wolves, there is a fight between you and me. During this period, there is a particularly magical "wolf walker", which can travel in the world in two forms, man and wolf, on the one hand, it can be the best leader and guardian of the wolf pack, on the other hand, it can communicate with humans. The appearance of the "Wolf Walker" seems to have found an incision between humans and wolf tribes that can interact, but it backfires, and the Wolf Walker is also full of hostility to the humans who hunt and kill indiscriminately. The task of reconciling with each other falls on the werewolf's daughter, Robin, and the little wolf walker Miba.
But the whole story of "Wolf Walker" is by no means what the author mentioned above, the descendants of the two tribes have reconciled with each other after many misunderstandings, and the focus of the whole story is even greater than the enmity between this species. After all, the works of Cartoon Salon Company have always been simple and simple, using a seemingly fairy tale story to illustrate a deeper connotation, for example, in "Wolf Walker", we see that between humans and wolves, you go in and out, one after another, but behind this is the barbaric "history of human civilization", as well as the history of European colonization that is closely related to the history of Ireland.
For example, the big boss protector in "Wolf Walker" is a very typical dictator invaders image, and his stubborn cognition and tough wrist of the wolves also fully represent the ignorance and fearlessness of human beings when killing with nature. And in the film, Robin's father, the wolf hunter, is another kind of citizen setting, he has a self-awakening, but loyal to his duties, loyal to what his eyes see, and although his daughter begged him to let go of himself and save the wolves, he was still indifferent, so in the whole film, the redemption of the two daughters of Robin and Miba to their relatives is the biggest attraction, and the awakening of the wolf hunter is a super easter egg that cannot be spoiled.
It must be added that this film is also quite ingenious in the choice of voice actors, the voice actor of Robin's father wolf hunter is Sean Bin, and his most well-known work is in "Game of Thrones" starring as the Duke of Winterfell, the Guardian Stark of the North, and the family crest of the Stark family is the Ice Wolf. This time as a wolf hunter, once again to start the "wolf" journey, is it a bad end, or will there be a turn? It's all worth waiting and seeing. After all, "Game of Thrones" was also filmed in Ireland that year, and Sean Binn was a proper revisit, and his old and resolute voice did set off too many memories to kill.
Overall, "Wolf Walker" is a must-see animation masterpiece once in a lifetime, whether it is from the audiovisual level of shock, or infected by the story, it is in the quality level, beyond most of the animation works, and even as a human cultural heritage, can be passed down from generation to generation. So, this summer, please go into the theater and "dance with wolves" with Wolfwalker? Waiting for you!