Personally, I took it as a way for everybody to connect personally to the film and the son character and fill in the blank of the simple story with more personal context. It can. He does have a brief flash of guilt about what he did, and thus resolves to replace his anger with love for his family. Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit. I don't think the wife and child were imaginary, but I do think they exist only within the confines of the island. The film starts with the man un-moored drifting throughout a wild ocean (world). 0/1.4K likes in common. Its gift complete, it returns to the ocean. It has its headquarters in Koganei, Tokyo. The unnamed man is trapped on the island, and that island signifies a relationship. This is where a touch of mysticism comes into play, and nature forgives the man for his act. **Share your love of all things Ghibli! —Arte. They live primarily in the water, but because they are cold-blooded, they do emerge to sunbathe to modulate their temperature. I don't have any special reading. With no dialogue, it traces the trajectory life takes for most people: starting out alone, finding someone to partner with, raising children, watching those children leave, and then saying goodbye yourself to the world. So the film is arguing that relationships bring contentment in life and loneliness is an unpleasant thing? By learning that you should be kind to nature, he earns his gift again - the turtle transforms into a woman (though weak, because she was dead in some sense). I took the story as it was. A red-eared slider. It's truly unique storytelling and beautiful storytelling though. When the child leaves the island, he is met by a party of three green turtles and swims away, almost as if he too is returning to nature. I think I screwed myself prior to the film, when I hyped myself up thinking this might be another Tale of Princess Kaguya which has the beautiful symbolic artwork this did, but also one of the most human, tragic, and beautiful stories I've ever seen, whereas this just ended being the former without the latter. And I found it beautiful. When his son comes of age, he sees the restlessness building and willingly lets him embark on a journey of his own to find a companion/companions that will bring him happiness. The turtle's death scene is sad. Follow AndreA @Ander. Delve deeply in Turtle symbolism and meaning to find out how this Animal Spirit Guide can support, assist, and inspire you. Kaguya is in another league, I agree. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts The man builds a raft from bamboo, and attempts to sail away. The man dies peacefully one night, while looking at the moon. The guy wants to escape the island which is untouched by human hand; Nature wants him to learn how to live in harmony with nature again, and prevents him from doing this, by sending the turtle. The fairy tale elements of the narrative, the moral themes and the presence of animals make it quite clear that this is a fable of some sort. The film itself was a European collaboration with famed Japanese animation Studio Ghibli following their (at the time) final film “when Marnie was there”. The story tells about a man, shipwrecked on an island. If in the normal fable we see human society in animal form. The man brutalized the turtle in his anger and desperation to get off the island and (presumably) back into human contact. My more interpretive side sees it as an allegory for growing up. Or at the very least, companionship. I love when ideas can be communicated without language. I saw it as a parable about nature's sacrifice and forgiveness, about a man who has lost everything, but is given a gift. This is the story of Sea Turtles mating. The man's attempts to go out to sea are foiled by an unseen beast (eventually revealed to be the red turtle) that destroys his rafts. A nameless man set adrift by a storm wakes up on a deserted island. "'The Red Turtle' is a fable so simple, so pure, it feels as if it has existed for hundreds of years, like a brilliant shard of sea glass rendered smooth and elegant through generations of retelling." Occasionally Sea Turtle’s meaning is a warning that you are relying too strongly on one or two prospects. I didn't say that, it was one of my favourite places to just browse topics and stuff, but the trolls ruined it. The Red Turtle was a beautiful and somewhat bittersweet story about a man trapped on an island. I wouldn't call it a reward, so much as a gift, or essentially, a sacrifice. The animation in the film is utterly breathtaking, and I think the best I've seen all year. “The Red Turtle,” is an animated feature about an unnamed man stranded on a deserted island. ** Snapping Turtle Symbolism. There are no humans, that is all in our mind. At the end of the film, after he has had the opportunity to grow old with his loved one, he passes peacefully and his wife once again becomes the red turtle. 3,489 Tastepoints. But I'd like to share my thoughts on the son leaving the island. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. However, its just as likely that the storytellers were reducing a story to such a basic structure lacking any dialogue to tell the story it relies on a lot of simple imagery and cultural touchstones. I liked that a little more than, what if they were all turtles? Here we are seeing Animal life in Human form. I wish it had focused a bit more on portraying some of the man's reflection by the end of his life, (more repentance), and a few of the transitions are more befitting of a short film than a feature length. Was it back to the mainland, where his parents had drawn in the sand? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio founded in June 1985 by the directors **Hayao Miyazaki** and **Isao Takahata** and the producer **Toshio Suzuki**. I wouldn't call it a reward, so much as a gift, or essentially, a sacrifice. Surrounded by the immense and furious ocean, a shipwrecked mariner battles for his life with the relentless towering waves. I only need to interpret films I don't understand. This is where the movie kind of loses it for me an relies on a lot of judeo-christian symbolism, frankly regressive views of relationships, and outright weird story beats. Red-eared sliders are very common turtles both in nature and in captivity. A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a red turtle, which changes his life. I think we can agree that what we saw was a straightforward child growing up and leaving home, in a way. His life is saved twice as a result of this. Sea turtles do not threaten humans, although this red turtle does disrupt the protagonist’s plans to escape the deserted island. With Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy, Axel Devillers. But I felt like it was very purposely open-ended as to what he went off to. The story tells about a man, shipwrecked on an island. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The Red Turtle ( La Tortue Rouge ), an animated film directed by Dutch-British animator Michaël Dudok de Wit, co-produced by Wild Bunch and Studio Ghibli in association with Why Not Productions, tells the story of a man who tries to escape from a deserted island and battles a giant turtle. Effectively, "The Red Turtle" uses no dialogue, it is one of the film's strengths. The Red Turtle, 2017 © Sony Pictures Classics The Red Turtle is an animated film about a man seemingly shipwrecked on a deserted island who meets a large red turtle that has profound effect of what happens next, though there is much more we can learn from this breathtaking parable on … In a majestic world of intricate hand-drawn textures, a shipwrecked man is found marooned on a desert island. 0/133 likes in common. It recognizes his need for love and companionship. Technology is the very thing that makes us human. 165 Tastepoints. It recognizes his need for love and companionship. The woman, holding the man’s hand one more time, transforms back into the red turtle, and crawls back to the ocean. Turtle Table of Contents. People who like The Red Turtle (2016 Movie) Cleiton S.S @thefellowship305. They get a child. The color red could be interpreted to indicate danger, blood, passion, and other strong emotions. A sea turtle with a red shell is exceptional, improbable, and startling. I mean: how could it be an allegory for growing up and living one's life when it quite literally depicts someone growing up and living his life? Why can't a story be just a story? Press J to jump to the feed. Plus there was never a time when humans were 'one with nature', whatever that means. Or was he off to find his own girl, one that he will love as much as his dad loves his mom? The guy killing the turtle could be interpreted as man (again, literally) conquering nature. I encountered a dead turtle. He is thrust onto an island he cannot escape (Adulthood) and every-time he tries to escape the responsibilities of "adulthood" the island/nature forces him back. We never see or hear from him again because once outside of the man's perception, he is gone. 0/453 likes in common. Nature provides him with a companion and a child, a life he can build. Follow Chandra Irugalbandara @irugalbandarachandra. They used seal skin, they actually show how they make clothes from seals in the movie o.o 23 mins into the movie. What is it an allegory of, in your view? "The Red Turtle" is an animated film that left my entire family feeling quietly devastated without even being able to put our fingers on why. The Japanese legends being Takahata Isao (who serves as this film's producer) and Miyazaki Hayao, and the studio being Studio Ghibli. I like that reading, but the ideas that underpin it are a little old-fashioned I feel, and it's a reading I would give more credit to if The Red Turtle was not a modern story. The Red Turtle (French: La Tortue Rouge; Japanese: レッドタートル ある島の物語, romanized: Reddo Tātoru: Aru Shima no Monogatari) is a 2016 animated fantasy drama film co-written and directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit and produced by Toshio Suzuki from Japan. The man finds that the island is rich in resources, finding fresh fruit and water as well as a variety of small animals and a dense bamboo forest, and prepares to leave the island. I think it's about Nature trying to bring humankind closer to her again. I feel that is its a metaphor for an abusive relationship. Edit Report This. French/Japanese fable "The Red Turtle" is one of those rare animated movies that transports you to a different setting without demanding that you focus on narrative or character development. Maybe the turtle was always meant to transform into a woman while ashore; maybe it was Nature's way of telling him "stay here, you can have everything you need here, here is my gift" but before he could see his gift, he killed it out of rage. We use cookies on our websites for a number of purposes, including analytics and performance, functionality and advertising. He doesn't want to be there, and actively tries to escape. The Red Turtle was a beautiful and somewhat bittersweet story about a man trapped on an island. He accepts his life and basically goes about the journey living a normal life because of her. After the man couples up with the turtle-woman, the film slides into a cliché. The man growing up can't be symbolic of a man growing up. It was straightforward (in my opinion). As one of the posters below states it seems like a gift/sacrifice that nature makes to make him happy or contented, which has problematic connotations that a women is basically "given" to him. Kek. I still trying to gather the meaning behind the tidal wave, and the mermaid turtle allegory. We asume that the Turtle is actually a woman, or that it undergoes a transformation. The company's logo features the character *Totoro* (a large forest spirit) from Hayao Miyazaki's film *"My Neighbor Totoro"*. But maybe it really was a turtle all along, and that we are just viewing it in human form. [](http://redditgifts.com/exchanges/studio-ghibli), Press J to jump to the feed. The child grows up. The film itself was a European collaboration with famed Japanese animation Studio Ghibli following their (at the time) final film “when Marnie was there”. The man is also a turtle, as is their son. Stopped reading after you suggested that IMDB is the only place to talk about film on the internet. The Red Turtle is a sort of film that up to interpretation. Film Review: ‘The Red Turtle’ In Studio Ghibli's first-even international co-production, Japan's top anime company partners with the Oscar-winning director of … The film is gorgeous to be sure, but in the end it kind of left me cold, and felt more like an experiment in the animated form rather trying to make some grand statement which is totally cool and I think more enjoyable when viewing it as trying to tell an animated story with no dialogue, but I found much of the mysticism, imagery, and overall narrative a bit to simple, trite, and even regressive to be affected by it much on anything other than an aesthetic scale. No need to look for any hidden meaning or message (in my opinion). Why do you call it that? But I think I understood this one pretty well. I also found using shadows very effective. The film itself was a European collaboration with famed Japanese animation Studio Ghibli following their (at the time) final film “when Marnie was there”. I came out of the film thinking that it was kind of a reverse Fable. But I think the symbolic reading just doesn't work for The Red Turtle and it should be approached as a straight-faced folk tale such as Kaguya is. The man angrily hits the red turtle with a stick and pushes the turtle onto its back. 901 Tastepoints. Growing old together, the man and the woman spend the rest of their lives on the island. I also felt like this movie is under discussed. Michael Dudok de Wit’s hypnotizing, entirely dialogue-free The Red Turtle is a fable so simple, so pure, it feels as if it has existed for hundreds of years, like a brilliant shard of sea glass rendered smooth and elegant through generations of retelling. We use cookies on our websites for a number of purposes, including analytics and performance, functionality and advertising. In this case, Snapping Turtle’s meaning is guiding you to approach things around you with a little more caution. The story tells about a man, shipwrecked on an island. The presence of symbolism doesn't mean it's no longer a story. Just got back from this. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The way the woman emerges from the turtle might be a bit creepy for some younger viewers. I could be very wrong here, but I saw it as a movie about companionship and the inherent need for a spouse. I agree with the rest of what you're saying. The red turtle crawls ashore after ruining his boat and sacrifices itself so the man may find happiness on the island. Yet, when the woman arrives, she brings him happiness and he stops trying to leave. The child's miraculous survival after falling into the pool is another hint that there is something metaphysical at play with the family. This seems a rather obvious message... My honest reductive answer to the film, and my often need to thumb my nose art that takes itself a little too seriously, and also the silly and coarse interpretation is: "He fucked a turtle". r/turtle: This subreddit is a friendly place to post all things turtle-related. Its only when he meets a woman that he no longer cares about escaping. But turtles are toothless. Why bother posting if you don't care about my theory for the themes of The Red Turtle? He gets another chance only when he shows remorse; when he tries to revive the turtle. Thus you need to expand and increase your productivity by adding a few more leads. I mean, the authors of the Old Testament wrote about Adam as a sort of gardener of nature and Eve being given to Adam to keep him company, but in the modern world we now know that both men and women ARE nature - not something separate from it (and women are not just here to please men's needs as in the misogynistic Genesis story). In his review A.O. We are part of nature and our ability to make tools is an aspect of that - not something that separates us from it. Obviously we have to look at the film in the generic and narrative context it situates itself in. I think you're on the right track with the allegorical reading. In the end, as the man has learned how to live as one with nature - like we did many millenia ago, before we started to destroy it - he dies peacefuly; and as Nature's job is done, and also because turtles live much longer than humans, to spare her from pain of living without the man she loves, the woman is transformed back into a turtle, and the gift of nature is returned back to the sea. Turtle teaches you how to work effectively and with proficiency. Going off of his own emotions, when he is alone, he is angry and discontent. The red turtle crawls ashore after ruining his boat and sacrifices itself so the man may find happiness on the island. 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