Leafie: A Hen Into The Wild

     So about a year ago, whilst on Deviantart creeping around due to boredom, I came across a journal posted about an animated movie called "Leafie: A Hen Into The Wild". They said "this movie is more sad than The Lion King" and I laughed in disbelief. Well, I snooped around on the internet to find the movie so I could watch it, being only in Korean I obviously couldn't just run to the video store. What's this? A happy movie title picture? It can't be that bad. So I watched a subtitled version of it. And well...

This was me, almost through the whole movie 

     Words cannot explain the beauty of this movie. "Beauty" as in the way this story is told. A story of life, death, freedom, and motherly love told through animation and simple animal characters. If I had kids, I would let them watch this.

     So the premise is that Leafie, a hen in a disgusting over-crowded hen house not unlike the ones that are around today that society doesn't show us, escapes with a plan to act dead. But when she gets out, a weasel attacks her and she is saved by a duck called Wanderer. She finds refuge in a briar patch and that next night she hears screaming. The weasel had killed Wanderer's mate. Long story short and a minor spoiler, the duck couple are both killed and Leafie takes their egg and raises the duckling as her own. But of course there comes difficulty with raising a baby duck when you are a chicken. It goes through their lives together and the struggles they encounter throughout.

     The ending thoroughly surprised me. I was actually mad for awhile because Leafie made a promise to her then-grown-up son and broke it like, 10 seconds later. But at the same time, I cried because why she did it was almost as important as her promise. I don't like major spoilers, so if you ever get a chance to watch this movie, you have to take it. It's such a beautiful story for all ages.