The Secret of Kells

[Square Ninja]

YouTube - The Secret of Kells - Official US Trailer

This looks like the coolest animated feature I've seen in a long time. It's a brilliantly animated tale planted firmly in Celtic Lore. They're running it at a little artsy theatre in my city. I am going to watch the shit out of it.

Will post more once I see it.

 

[Ophan]

the style and animation together are superb

 

[Faris]

My god that animation is cool. Story seems pretty intriguing also, will definitely watch it when it comes to aust

 

[Square Ninja]

I went to an afternoon showing of it at the art theater here. Secret of Kells was good, not great, but good. The animation is superb as well as the art direction; a modern-styled tribute to Celtic art. I was surprised at just how deeply the movie was immersed in Celtic mythology. It wasn't entire accurate, but it had tons of nods to the legends surrounding one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts ever made. It was a small but necessary liberty to take in order to make a good story.

So yeah, go see it now.

 

[Ophan]

because i don't have a full understanding of the ending do you mind if you could...uh...share your depiction on it. I found myself a little disturbed with how everything ended :/

 

[Dentim]

I missed it when it came out here over a year ago. Maybe I should look for the dvd

 

[Square Ninja]

because i don't have a full understanding of the ending do you mind if you could...uh...share your depiction on it. I found myself a little disturbed with how everything ended :/

What was so disturbing about it, that the abbey at Kells was sacked? Brendon's return to Kells gives his uncle the absolution he needs. The Book of Kells also proves to the Abbot that Brendon believed in what he was doing and why he risked his life to continue working on it.

 

[Ophan]

But there was more to it than that. The Abbot wanted to build the wall to block the Vikings from invading, however Brendon wanted to work on the book that would illuminate the darkness (some obvious metaphor of light and darkness going on here). In such an abrupt ending, the only thing i could gather was that "you cant build walls to harbor darkness so when the worst has passed, look into the light". I suppose the one thing that makes it disturbing is how realistic it is, because those people didn't stand a chance against those Vikings, but the magical situations i.e. the little girl Ashley (sp?) kind of threw me off here. Why add unrealistic events, in a story using metaphors for a realistic point???

I guess for me the ending was bittersweet. The ending served it's purpose, but i think they should have at least shown the impact the Book of Kells would have on the rest of the people aside from the Abbot.