Audience reviews
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ProxyLain
English is not my language.
As average as it is, this movie was kind of fun to watch.
It starts with Leafie wanting to live in the backyard instead of laying eggs, so she pretends to be dead and is sent off to be buried, but manages to escape. After this weasel is introduced who wants to eat Leafie and a Wild Duck helps her escape.
This Wild Duck has been fighting the Weasel for some time. And there is his final fight, where he sacrifices himself by jumping off a cliff and taking the Weasel with him, but the Weasel survives.
After this "the real movie begins," as Leafie helps a Duck's egg hatch, and she becomes the "mother" of this duckling. Before this, the wild duck that Leafie calls "Wanderer" tells Leafie to take the duckling that was about to hatch to the swamp, and she doesn't kno…
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Rate a 5
English Dubbed
Genres:action,drama
Story
-If you are a parent or a wise child you understand what is empty nest syndrome. In short it involves the kids leaving their parents for their solo life adventure. Here it is only slightly different for it starts from the child's side before it gets to the eyes of the parent(s).
- Introduction was straight forward
-conclusion was not what i thought would happen. Especially in a movie meant for kids. Although, props to the writer for not only was it understandable but could have been far more grotesque.
Art -color
-no gore
Enjoyment
An inspiration anime. An anime that encourages one to follow their dreams for where it leads them. Not only that but anyone can make a good team no matter the situational outcome.
Read at the sourceRyntaia
Based on the Korean children's book entitled The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, Leafie: A Hen Into the Wild is a shimmering example of the capabilities of Korean animation. It's a marvelous and moving movie based on a marvelous and moving book, full of heartwarming characters and devastating tragedies. What's that, you say? That BISHONEN DUCKS movie is ripe with engaging drama and heart-breaking tragedy? Well, yes. Yes it is.
Story: 10
The movie pretty much follows the book to a T, so there's nothing in the story that could even be remotely negative. It's a bittersweet, touching tale of motherhood and nature told from the perspective of a factory farm hen named Leafie who dreams only of leaving her imprisonment and raising her eggs to adulthood. Instead, after befriending a duck, she e…
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This is such a great, gorgeous film. You should go and watch it if you love beautiful animation, wonderful story, bishounen ducks and topical narratives.
This film is based on a Korean novel called "The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly" by Hwang Sun-mi and is partially like a talking animals film you might remember from your childhood and also like a more topical look at the darker aspects of animals' interactions with each other and people, including the food chain, the cycles of nature and farming practices. But this is also a very painful narrative - just as there are many beautiful, heart-warming and humorous moments in this film, so too are there also very bittersweet moments.
The animation is gorgeous. This film would take my vote for best-animated film if "Garden of Words" wasn't alr…
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Upon seeing a poster or trailer for this movie, one might think, "But chickens and ducks are for eating! Who'd want to see a story about them?"
Strangely enough, it works. Director Oh Seung-Yoon tackles the subject matter with firm and unyielding compassion, making the audience feel for a hen like never before.
The storyline treads no new ground as far as morals go. Find your own destiny. Make your own mark. The circle of life goes on. These are all things we've seen before, sure, but Leafie manages to make it seem new anyhow, with colorful music that expands and contracts with every passing scene. The pure creativity of the characters manages to reinvigorate the film, despite its pedestrian plot.
The artwork on this film is nothing short of brilliant. Backgrounds look like expertly cra…
Read at the sourceTaralen
This is a hidden gem of a movie that is so sadly underrated and unknown to many.
Leafie, A Hen into the Wild is one of the most touching animated films I have ever seen that involves animals. It is based off a popular children's book by Hwang Sun-mi.
It has the feel of a Western animated feature but the undeniable grief and hardship often exhibited in Eastern drama films.
The concept is fairly simple. Leafie is a hen who is confined to an egg farm and dreams of simply going outside to the yard. By playing dead, Leafie is taken out of the farm and dumped in a landfill where the farmer puts all his dead hens. Thankfully she lives and discovers the beauty of the wild. In the wild she meets lots of new characters but especially grows fond of a handsome mallard whom she calls Wanderer. Chaos…
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