What was the message trying to convey? We need regret to enjoy life? Just because we can doesn’t mean we should? Some things are sacred and need stay that way? Change, either good or bad is better than stagnating? Was this a good movie?
What was the message trying to convey? We need regret to enjoy life? Just because we can doesnt mean we should?
The message is we should frick horses
And trees.
>Change, either good or bad is better than stagnating?
Prolly this. Also the human experience is beautiful and painful at the same time and that it's such a unique thing that humans take it for granted sometimes.
id like to see the venn diagram of people who watched the last unicorn before 7 and people who ended up somekinda gay or furries.
>Was this a good movie?
in a way.
>What was the message
i think its more than we need mortality to be human; being an ideal separates you from others. that its okay to die.
maybe most things people do is an effort to not die or cling to the past when death and change are both inherent parts of being human and accepting them leads to a more enjoyable and full life? i dont think you are meant to think about it so much as you are meant to let if wash over you.
Collecting unicorns will eventually result in plunging to your death in a frigid ocean.
Then why hasn't /MLP/ collapsed into the sea?
Don't you see all those threads they make here? They know it's over and want to go back to daddy C.O.
,,There are no happy endings, as nothing ever ends''
My favorite story. I rewatch the movie almost yearly. This is my take on the meaning of it:
It's about the pursuit of happiness and how miserable we are in trying to achieve it.
Everybody is miserable in the story, because they can't find happiness.
Schmendrick tries to find magic and can't find it. Cursed by his master to be immortal until he does. (Only in the book. He's really, really old and absolutely depressed about it).
Molly and the Bandits wishing for a better life, but being crushed by reality.
Lir being miserable, as the unicorn is not returning his love. (He turns into the new Haggar in the book).
Haggsgate (book only) The town that has everything, all miserable as well, as they know that it will one day end.
I could go on, but everyone is miserable except the villans who enrich their lives by the misery of others. (Mommy Fortuna and Haggar). Which is terrible.
Except the spider (book only), Happy as can be, as she lives in a dream. Until the spell gets broken.
Ignorance surely is Bliss.
Well done, thanks for reminding me that I need to read this
You should, the book is very good! The film is very faithful to the book just 1/4 shorter.
(With the exception of the portrayal of the Bull. The thing is massive in the book! His legs flaming tornados, his back a mountain range. It makes more sense, that something as powerful as a Unicorn would be afraid of it. Was probably to hard to animate).
Is she the manifestation of this or it’s contra as she in literally an immortal creature not bound by “knowing”?
Well…until the end in that she learns regret and can not really return to her people.
My interpretation is also in contra. She is Immortal and for us mortals impossible to understand. I don't think she has the same emotional range as us. She is also portrayed as being very removed from us, the way she speaks and acts. Well at least until she turns mortal and is forever changed. As such I don't believe she's an allegory for happiness, but rather a catalyst.
My take away from it was love is a magical feeling that you'd kill and die for, even if it was only fleeting and painful the high was worth it. Even when it's over the memory of that feeling will always burn bright and make you smile while also cry a little since it's over.
That's a really nice interpretation of the story. In the book Schmendrick finds his magic after witnessing Lir sacrificing his life for the Unicorn. Lir giving his life in unconditioned LOVE is the trigger to break Schmendrick curse of immortality. So your theory could be right!
I'll never understand, that this scene isn't in the film, or only in it in this very abbreviated form. ,,I never knew I was this empty'' is my favorite quote from the book. (Schmendricks realization as he is filled with Love/Magic).
the song slaps. https://youtu.be/uF1Q56YAo0Q?t=90
So why IS a Raven like a writing desk? That took me out of the story the first time I watched this as a kid, and I still don't know the answer.
Also, that line and the skeleton drinking wine and saying it can remember are the only things I remember about this movie.
It's meant to be unsolveable as far as I know. But still, here's two answers:
Because it can produce a few notes.
Both may be penned, but they can never truly be captive
Because they are nevar put with the wrong end forward
Or, they both produce very flat notes
The japanese are geniuses of animation and this movie among countless others prove it. Such good understing of contrast, scale and colour. I love them with all my heart.
The unicorn is myth itself and her travel is myth confronting disenchantment and ultimately the spiritual void of king Haggard.
People stopped believing in unicorns like how disenchantment made people stop believing in myths, the plot shows a re evaluation of myth where we common folk represented my Shmendrick and Molly have a role as catalysts of myth.
Myths exists because we make them exist, we are the ones that give prince charming his sword to rescue maidens and there is nothing wrong with that.
King Haggard is the void, he's not the cold had of science, the stubbornness of enlightenment reason or any moral or social decay that one can find in the world but a person whom is ever present in everyone's lives, a person for whom nothingness itself is his joy and hurting everyone else the only way he can be happy. His desire to collect unicorns is a desire for no amusement or wonder to exist in the world and confronting him is faith on *anything*.
I find it fascinating, that everyone takes something else out of this story. Truly a work of art.
Great animation, but the movie just felt so anemic. Im not asking for musical numbers or comedic characters like a Disney movie, but its just so monotone.
Maybe my expectations were too high after hearing how many people praised it over the years.
It's one of the reasons I like it so much. The bleakness really gives it character.
I like the movie.
Yeah, It's hard to put a finger on what about its atmosphere makes it stand out so much. Definitely on my list of media for my kids/nieces and nephews.
I saw it first when I was six years old. I was so afraid, that my mother had to drag me out of the roon screaming and crying.
Don't watch it with young children! It's a ,,watership down'' kinda movie.
The second you think to use your arcane powers to turn something cute into a hot chick, DON'T cause reality will shit some fricking prince into existence to cuckold you.
>What was the message trying to convey?
There are no happy endings, because nothing truly ends.
Pure kino
Why is Flight of Dragons such a let down?
Because it was based on a book that isn't a story, but rather a work of speculative biology (with gorgeous art) exploring how mythical, flying, fire-breathing dragons would have worked if they were real animals. And instead of staying true to the subject they wrote a shitty story and enshittified the art.
They cover LoTR and the Last Unicorn. It's really too bad they couldn't get the rights to other fantasy classics like Narnia or Earthsea or Once and Future King. I would kill to see them in this style.