Film: Klaus: Christmas Secret
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Directors: Sergio Pablos, Carlos Martinez Lopez
Writers: Zach Reeves, Sergio Pablos, Jim Mahoney
Starring: Jason Schwartzman , J.K. Simmons
Release date: November 8, 2019 (USA)
The movie "K" Rolls: The Secret of Christmas, like many other similar film stories, begins with a core concept, then opens with a gorgeous and exciting prelude, quickly rooting the core concept. The
film jokes about the legend of Santa Claus giving gifts. In fact, everyone wants to gain something in this world, and only the most selfless dedication can inspire people the most.
The idle and pleasure-seeking Jasper has a father of a postmaster general who was shoved into the Royal Mail College to study, but Jasper, who is a poor student, doesn't appreciate it. In order to make his unproductive son grow up quickly, the director's father sent him to Smithensburg, a frozen island in the Arctic Circle, to build a post office to send and receive 6,000 letters in a year, otherwise he would be deprived of his inheritance.
The locals live in a gray and frozen town. The folk customs are primitive and sturdy. The Elimbo family and the Krum family often fight each other. The children do not go to school, and they hardly communicate with each other. The pampered Jasper lives in a dilapidated house with leaks everywhere. The original post office has become a chicken coop. In order to complete the task and leave the island quickly, Jasper begins a difficult life as a postman.
Jasper picked up a painting of a child and tricked the child into giving him a penny to send it back. Jasper, who traveled all over the island but found nothing, found that there was a resident on the other side of the island. It was said that it was a woodcutter named Claus. Jasper accidentally entered Klaus's cabin and found that he lived in a cabin full of handmade toys. By chance, Klaus came home and picked up the paintings of the children left by Jasper, so he asked Jasper Send a gift to the child.
After the child received the gift, it was a jumping handmade frog toy, which he played happily and found his own drawing outside the door. As a result, there is a legend on the island that as long as you write to Mr. Claus and send it to Jasper for a penny, you can receive a toy made by Mr. Claus himself.
Klaus is a kind and taciturn person, Jasper finally got through to Klaus. When they returned to the town with gifts, they found that because the parents of the two families found that the children were playing with toys, they criticized the children harshly and shredded the toys and hung them on the door. Jasper had to climb over the wall and climb the house down the chimney to get into the house, struggling to deliver the gifts to the children. Unexpectedly, he received more letters from the children the next day.
Some children can't write letters, so they go to ask Alva, the only teacher in the only school on the island who has switched careers and started selling fish. Teacher Alva has long been disheartened about this place and wants to save enough money to leave, but the children are more and more curious about knowledge. Alva uses the money she saves to buy school supplies and teaching aids, and the school looks like a school again.
Then the legend of Mr. Claus spread more and more outrageous among the children of the island, "as long as you sleep, the next day the gift is by the fireplace", "he is very big, but he can get into any chimney" , "If you hang your socks by the fireplace, you will receive a gift", "No one has seen him, it must be magic".
There are more and more gifts from the children. It turns out that the white horse pulling the cart can no longer be pulled. Jasper and Klaus grabbed a lot of reindeer and to pull the cart. They both showed their long-lost smiles on the speeding car . In order to teach naughty kids a lesson, Jasper made up that Mr. Krause had a "bad kids list" and that kids on the list couldn't get gifts.
In order to get gifts, children learn to be good children, compete to do good things, shovel snow, do housework, help neighbors, go to school and do homework on time, etc. Under the leadership of the children, the gap between the two families is gradually eliminated. more and more harmonious. However, the two family patriarchs were dissatisfied, and they were ambushed at the same place at night, resulting in the destruction of Jasper and Klaus's sleigh car. Just when the sleigh car that was knocked into the air was rowed through the air, a child saw it. , turned into a magical reindeer pulling a flying sleigh to deliver gifts.
Jasper receives letters during the day and delivers gifts at night. Seeing that the toys that Mr. Claus made by himself are almost finished, he wants Claus to continue making toys, but Claus doesn't want to. He can't let go of his wife who died of illness. Lydia, those toys that were given away were made for unborn children. Things seem to have returned to the original point: Jasper doesn't want to stay on the island forever, he can't fit into such a living environment, and can only be an unknown person.
There is a little foreign girl who often comes to Jasper because of the language barrier, but Jasper doesn't take her seriously. This time Jasper found that she was actually a good listener. He asked Teacher Alva to help translate. The three chatted enthusiastically. Jasper decided to make a boat that the little girl liked by himself. Under Jasper's infection, Klass also started.
In the dark night, the night sky was falling and the stars were shining, Jasper and Klaus drove the sleigh across the vast ice surface, braved the wind and snow to deliver the gift to the little girl's house, and stayed until the next morning, hiding behind the hillside Watch the little girl rowing happily on the ice. This process is also the process of the two of them traversing the inner darkness. Accompanied by the high-pitched and bright girl's singing, it is enough to cut through the night sky and the dark night of life.
When Klaus saw that the toys he made brought so much joy to the children of the town, he got back on his feet and planned to use Christmas to make a large batch of gifts. Teacher Alva has found the meaning of being a teacher again, and the school has the sound of reading aloud again. She brought Jasper to the square. It is precisely because of his unintentional actions that most of the residents of the entire island are getting more and more harmonious. , was treated well by the little girl from the foreign race and led the tribe to help repair the school building, the woodcutter's house and the post office, and also made a bright red dress for Klaus. Everyone was happy.
Only the leaders of two families felt that their family interests were threatened and decided to unite to boycott Claus. They jointly sent 14,000 letters. Jasper's father, who knew the news, thought that his son had completed the task and took him home specially. This acted to alienate the relationship between Jasper and his good friends. However, before Jasper left, He explained his true intentions to his father, who was happy for his son's transformation and asked him to stay.
Jasper found the meaning of life on the island. He rushed back to prevent the two families from destroying the toys. The two sides launched a fierce chase in the mountains, desperately protecting the toys. Unfortunately, I failed to protect the toys. Fortunately, Teacher Alva learned from the children in advance that the parents conspired to destroy the toys. Therefore, the destroyed toys were all fake, and the real toys were delivered to the children as scheduled. on hand.
Jasper and Teacher Alva live together happily. Every year Jasper and Klaus receive more and more letters and send more and more gifts. Year after year, after twelve years, Klaus disappeared into the forest and no one saw him again, but Jasper saw him every Christmas. The animation style of
is slightly abstract and sharp, the tone is somewhat dark, and the second half becomes warm and conspicuous. The processing at the end of the film is mainly based on Jasper's voice-over, but it is actually a little moved. What is it that is moved? Jasper found the meaning of life on an unfamiliar island, Klaus stepped out of the haze of losing his wife, shared selfless love with everyone, found the direction of life, and found the positive flow of love. These two pieces It's hard, but someone did it.
