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Uhhh am I the last person on earth to know about this movie? An animated children’s film about a boy learning to illuminate manuscripts in the throes of Viking raids in a 9th c. abbey? And it’s uncomfortably scary, goddamned gorgeous, child appropriate, and genuinely thematic? https://t.co/owY0iURAaH
3yo: I liked that movie. me: Wow. Me too. 3yo: It was scary. me: It had scary parts and beautiful parts. 3yo: Yeah. I didn’t like the beautiful parts though. Only the scary parts. me: Really? 3yo: Yeah. And that makes sense.
Imagining the pitch meeting for this movie > most of the movie they are drawing a book, no one defeats the Vikings, they burn everything >> oh so it’s a Christian movie? > yeah I guess but we’re not gonna mention that the book is the Gospels and also the forest is pagan
I am informed that it was nominated for an Oscar and beaten by Up so here’s my Up review https://t.co/xGyxgacc5E
Since this is doing numbers you should (a) watch it with a small child who likes being intrigued and moderately disturbed and (b) follow me for more reporting on shockingly good AI generated recommendations for children https://t.co/4yKpKUDoKY
I watched Wolfwalkers as four gazillion of you recommended. It was nice but not as special as Kells. Wolfwalkers is about fear, prejudice, blah blah blah. Kells is about the sacredness of craftsmanship. Wolfwalkers centers around magical powers. The magic in Kells is incidental.
I’ll watch any well done movie but I have achieved semantic satiety for movies about girls with Magic Powers but oh no the forest is dying or worse is Unbalanced because of Human Ignorance I watch such movies with dry, inoculated, bemused, analytic indifference