"Some things are not there if you don't see it or choose not to believe it."
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I didn't expect that the biggest surprise in this year's cartoon turned out to be "Epic"! I didn't like the film before watching the posters and trailers. I felt that the characters were ordinary, the style of painting was mediocre, and the story was too simple. However, ten minutes after the beginning of the movie, it completely subverted my prediction.
The story of "Epic" is adapted from the children's literature "Leaf Man and the Brave Bug" by the American writer William Josie. Witness a fierce contest between good and evil forces.
Because it is a story that takes place in the forest, the whole film is mainly green, but the different greens make the picture very rich and look very comfortable. The characters on the posters that seem to be featureless are vivid in the film, and every detail from head to toe is revealed. More than once, I silently admired the armors and helmets of the leaf men soldiers are so beautifully made. Because the little human girl Mary has become smaller like Alice in Wonderland, there are two parallel time and space in the film at the same time. All the creatures in the micro world are designed very delicately and full of imagination. What is even more rare is to show these two. Characters in the world look at each other from different perspectives, and what is interesting is that there is a time difference between these two parallel worlds. The micro world is much faster than the human world, so the human world is slow motion in the eyes of small people. This time, the excellent 3D effect allows the audience to truly feel the perspective difference between this microscopic world and the human world. The war scene of the confrontation between good and evil also looks wonderful because of the 3D effect.
Speaking of the theme, I think this is a theme that can touch both children and adults at the same time. It is very common in cartoons. The heroine Mary's father, Professor Bomba, lived in a forest hut for a long time to do research. He installed motion capture cameras throughout the forest in an attempt to find evidence to prove the existence of this well-concealed microcosm. But even his own daughter didn't believe him, thinking that he was crazy, until Mary entered that world accidentally.
The moment when two parallel space-time intersect is when a miracle occurs.
Some things are not there if you don't see it or choose not to believe it.
At the end of the story, when the father is about to give up, it is the daughter who tries to tell him: "You are right, we shouldn't believe you." If you have been believing in something unique, incredible, and particularly beautiful, but others don't understand you, don't understand you, and look down on you. At that time, how lonely and courageous was to persevere. When Dad knew that the world he had always believed in really existed, he just wanted to share the news with his wife who had left, telling him that his persistence was worthwhile. Seeing the waves of emotion in my heart turned into tears, this is the power of belief.
