2019 · animation · fantasy · action
The Legend of Hei
Directed by MTJJ1h 42m2019
When cat spirit Luo Xiaohei's home is deforested by humans, he must find a new one. He runs into a group of other spirit creatures who take him under their wing with dreams of reconquering the land they say is rightfully theirs. However, they run into a human known as Wuxian who separates Luo Xiaohei from the other spirits and the two go on a journey, with the cat spirit learning to control his abilities as well as forming his own thoughts on whether or not he should ally with the spirits or the humans.
Our read: The Legend of Hei (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal animation · fantasy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, extreme animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- redemptive
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