Song Of The Sea 2014 Guide

The film’s final shot is not of a happy family. It is of the father, finally crying on the beach, holding his daughter, while the sea—wild and dangerous—rolls in. The sea is not tamed. The grief is not solved. It is simply . Conclusion: A Necessary Antidote Song of the Sea is not a film about Irish folklore. It is a film about how modern, rational, urban life has taught us to bottle our emotions (literally, in Macha’s jars and the grandmother’s jam). It insists that the messy, watery, unpredictable world of feeling is the only real world.

Macha is not a villain. She is a version of the grandmother. She is the personification of depression as maintenance . Her famous line: “I’ve taken the pain away. Isn’t that better?” song of the sea 2014

In an era of "trauma plots" and clinical therapy-speak, Song of the Sea offers an ancient alternative: The film’s final shot is not of a happy family