Today I would like to recommend an animated film "Wolf Walker", a European film.
Recommending animated movies has always been a difficult thing for me, many people think that cartoons are for children, childish plots, boring endings, only children will like.
nonono！ At the beginning of today's recommended "Wolfwalker", I also thought it would be a film for small children. After watching it, I think I was wrong, the preconceived notion is really unreliable, if you make judgments so easily, I don't know how many good films will be missed.
The main creator of the manga is the Irish painter Tom Moore, the graphics and music of the anime are very beautiful, the first time I saw the wolf can be so cute. Of course, the story, like Song of the Sea and The Secret of the Book of Kells, is set in Ireland.
Wolfwalker combines Irish mythology and legends, but it's more groundbreaking, and you'll see something deeper in this animated film. About the history of Ireland, about man and nature, about human nature.
Presumably, everyone is very concerned about the style of the animated film, the painter uses a lot of lines, and uses sharp triangular geometric figures in the town to draw the residents' residences, and the color is directly gray.
Outside of the forest towns, the author clearly uses soft curves to outline the number of forests, and the colors are more distinct. The color scheme is mainly green, red, which contrasts with the colors of the town.
In terms of outlining characters, it is more wild. The image of the werewolf is very gentle and dreamy, probably like the hand-drawn style of the "Little Prince" illustration series, the dreamy and beautiful style, the beautiful, and many pictures can be used as wallpaper.
Secondly, on the soundtrack, "Running with the Wolves" checked out the song of a Norwegian female singer, Aurora. Unexpectedly, she was only 19 years old when she released this song, the style of the song is very agile, and it also sings the wildness and freedom of the theme wolfwalker.
Turning to the plot, the story takes place in Ireland, where British colonists come to Ireland to expand the city, cut down forests, and hunt wolves.
Robin, an 11-year-old girl, is a little hunter, and his father Bill is an excellent hunter and a great wolf catcher.
In order to protect his daughter Robin, Bill locks robin at home every time he goes out hunting. As An Englishman, Robin and his father are hostile to the locals, but Robin doesn't care, and the more the girl is regulated, the more she wants to see the outside world.
In this film we can see that Robin has a strong spirit of resistance, and his father treats Robin as much as the British colonists treat the inhabitants of Ireland. The British colonists cordoned the irish people in the town and pretended it was protection, but where there was oppression, there was resistance.
Robin resists and runs into the forest, where he meets his best friend Merlin, who is a falcon, and Robin doesn't hit the wolf but hits Merlin.
Robin is really not suitable for being a hunter, the wolf did not catch but fell into the trap made by his father, and a cute little wolf appeared to save Robin. And the little wolf becomes a cute girl named Maeve, who is a descendant of the Wolfwalker.
Wolves here are not fierce and will often help treat wounded people. This changes Robin's old view of wolves, which also sets the stage for her next step against her father.
How will Robin and Maeve respond to hunters' hunts against wolves?
And Maeve's mother may have been captured by humans, how can Robin help Maeve find her mother.
At the same time, more amazing changes also happened to Robin's body, in her sleep she would always dream of becoming a wolf, running in the jungle, her movements gradually became sharper, and her sense of smell was also, was Robin also a member of the Wolfwalker?
It's useless to talk more, the wonderful plot is in the movie!
After watching the movie "Wolfwalker", I was very touched, and for the relationship between Bill and his daughter Robin, the father has always felt that it is good for his daughter to pay attention to his daughter. This sentence also gives many people as children a headache, and power and repression have become a means of protection.
This is not only a father-son relationship, but also the word protection is used in the film to protect the oppression of the colonized. The protector used his power to kill shepherds and imprisoned the indigenous people who rebelled, which also reflected the sadness of the colonized people. Of course, considering that the audience watching the movie has children, this can only be vaguely explained.
I still want to talk about man and nature, which we said in "The Year of Earth Change". While humans are developing, please leave a little room for animals to live. Similarly, the relationship between man and nature is also emphasized in "Wolfwalker", and animals also have the right to run freely and breathe, and people should also consider nature while striding forward.
Although Wolfwalker is a fantasy and adventure anime, I think it is worth it, because you will see a lot of meaningful things in it, which is a reflection on freedom, a reflection on human nature, a reflection on nature.