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meganbmoore) wrote2015-04-10 07:55 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2015-04-10 07:55 pm
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movie: Song of the Sea
Song of the Sea is a wonderful Irish animated film about Irish folklore and mythology with extremely stylized traditional animation and a great soundtrack. It's by the makers of The Scret of Kells, which is also a wonderful Irish animated film about Irish folklore and mythology with extremely stylized traditional animation and a great soundtrack, and also has some of the same vocal cast. But the two are actually very different.
Centered around selkie legends and the goddess Macha, Song of the Sea is about Ben, a boy who lives on an island in a lighthound with his father, Conor, who has yet to recover from losing Ben's mother, and his sister, Saoirse, who doesn't speak yet, even though she's six. Unknown to Ben and Saoirse, their mother was a selkie, and Saoirse is one too, two facts Conor and his mother try desperately to deny, eventually sending the children to live with their grandmother on the mainland. When the children run away to return to the lighthouse, they find themselves in the middle of a much bigger picture involving the sidhe, and encounter a variety of figures from Irish mythology.
It's very sincere and very honest about itself and its characters, and is made with an incredible amount of love of mythology.
This official (I think) music video is a bit spoilery, but it's also amazing:
Centered around selkie legends and the goddess Macha, Song of the Sea is about Ben, a boy who lives on an island in a lighthound with his father, Conor, who has yet to recover from losing Ben's mother, and his sister, Saoirse, who doesn't speak yet, even though she's six. Unknown to Ben and Saoirse, their mother was a selkie, and Saoirse is one too, two facts Conor and his mother try desperately to deny, eventually sending the children to live with their grandmother on the mainland. When the children run away to return to the lighthouse, they find themselves in the middle of a much bigger picture involving the sidhe, and encounter a variety of figures from Irish mythology.
It's very sincere and very honest about itself and its characters, and is made with an incredible amount of love of mythology.
This official (I think) music video is a bit spoilery, but it's also amazing:
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