'It is in the film’s deepening interrogation of violence—in the way it dares to follow through on its project, which gradually becomes awash with blood and gore—that 'Unicorn Wars' convinces,' writes CasparSalmon.
is visible, too, in the beautiful and lively design of the forest: the hand of Eyvind Earle, the artist responsible for the tangled sylvan labyrinths of, is evident in these scenes, where the sprawling woods—forbidding yet wondrous, glistening with dew, home to hosts of hopping and scurrying creatures—are a character of their own.
Not long into this excursion, as the bears seek out their enemy and set up camp, guided by a crazed commander and a man of god, things begin to take a turn for the brutal—and here the film embarks on what will eventually become a truly Biblical body count, with a first round of bear deaths that at once set the tone for things to come, and also lull the audience into a false sense of security.
With the Abel-and-Cain figures of Tubby and Bluey, the film mines a great deal of familial pain: the love both have for their departed mother, and the seething hatred Bluey has for the feckless father figure, leading him to espouse a poisonous male mindset, put meat on the bones of this parable, as the two characters tussle and are finally set on opposing courses.
It is in the film’s deepening interrogation of violence—in the way it dares to follow through on its project, which gradually becomes awash with blood and gore—thatconvinces. Here, the film uses animation adroitly: its color scheme and its scale shift appropriately; battlefields are strewn with bodies, bathed in rivers of blood.
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