Healing flame In any work of the fantasy genre, from simple books and simple games to entire movie trilogies, dragons inhabit. Giant majestic lizards cut through the air faster than their flames incinerate everything around. A traditional embodiment of ancient wisdom and magical power, dragons are closely connected to their dwellings – usually underground or high-altitude caves, often stuffed with untold treasures that attract adventurers. It is rare to meet powerful creatures in urban conditions, and under very original circumstances - it is enough to recall Hagrid in the first Harry Potter film. Left to herself, the girl Sintel did not win a dragon in a gambling game, but accidentally found a winged cub on the roof. The tiny lizard could not fly with a broken wing, but became the vagrant’s best friend, brightening up her dull hungry life. On one not the happiest day, a walk along the city top tour ended dramatically - a huge dragon snatched the cub literally from his hands. This event turned Sintel from a homeless woman into a wandering warrior who wanted to find the kidnapper’s lair at all costs.
The plot of the cartoon, as it is easy to notice, is far from the characteristic Tolkien depths, but it fits flawlessly to the instructive and touching tale of friendship, loyalty and courage. The creation of the Blender Foundation was created to demonstrate the new capabilities of the company in computer graphics, but this did not prevent the tape from being filled with heat far from artificiality. Fantastic detailing of the picture allowed to draw the picture to the smallest detail, as a result of which every fold of Sintel's clothes, every scale of a small dragon, every bend of the pattern on the blade of the spear is striking in clarity. Such scrupulousness made the story of an unusual friendship unanimated truthful, and this was especially evident in scenes of a girl fighting with a mountain keeper, or a conversation with an elderly shaman. It is easy to believe that in an unknown country, on the outskirts of which there is an impregnable mountain range, and in fact live dragons that soar in the sky, scaring cranes. And it's also easy to feel Syntel's loneliness, her short-lived happiness beside a little dragon. Friendship often takes on bizarre forms, which once again proves the need for everyone to be someone needed in this world.
Sentimentality is alien to dragons; they are too proud. Scorch the daring guest - this is please, but look at him with his own eyes ... This is the very embodiment of life's paradoxes. Sintel has come a long way, more than once she could die in the cold mountains, but went to his goal, guided by love. This colorful melancholy story, securely shackled in a fantasy shell, without any commercial calculation or analytical schemes penetrates the heart, finding a hot response. The incomparable music of Jean Morgenstern, somewhat reminiscent of the final composition from The Merchant of Venice, ties joy and sadness into a bizarre knot. The need to give a piece of heart to a friend is taken for granted, and it is a pity that in reality people are often cruel to animals. Invisible is the spark that flashed in Sintel’s eyes at the sight of a wounded dragon, but it flares up to a healing flame. His warmth warms the soul and leaves no doubt – peace and harmony are always possible, it is enough only at the right moment to extend a hand.