Orion and the Dark (2024)
You and I all love the light. They regard light as good. Poems and songs also use light as a symbol of goodness. They interpret darkness as the absence of light. They are afraid of the dark. But the darkness was there with his goodness. Daylight makes some colors more beautiful and darkness makes some colors brighter. It's as if they can't see the stars in the city sky where the lights are dim. Just as silence allows you to hear soft, beautiful sounds, darkness allows you to see dim lights. Everyone has fear. There are people who are afraid of not knowing what they don't know. There is also a fear that the more you learn, the more you fear. This cartoon is about a boy named Orion who is afraid of everything. Orion is a boy who is afraid of everything, from mosquito bites to clogging the toilet to flooding the whole school. At the very least, he is afraid to talk to the girl he loves. What he fears the most is what he faces every night… the darkness. He is afraid of the dark, because he doesn't understand the dark. The darkness is not as bad as he thinks. I must say that he is a very good person who is far from being bad. Darkness tells Orion not to fear him and follows the night world to show him what duties he has for the world. But Ori Yuan, who is very afraid, is still afraid. So, the darkness took Eurayuan to other night beings in the night world. These things are... good dreams, sleep, insomnia, silence, unknown noises. In other words, things that only exist at night. The Darkness was intended to help Ori-Yuan see how their group and their duties to the world at night make them positive and overcome his fear to live happily. If you read this much, you can probably guess what's going to happen. It's just a children's cartoon. As usual, a little Orion is no longer afraid of the dark, he overcomes his fear, and the characters enjoy themselves together, and the subtitles are done. If you think so, you will be wrong. If wrong, the screenwriter is Charlie Kaufman. The man who wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... the man who wrote Being John Malkovich and Adaptation... the man who wrote and directed I'm Thinking of Ending Things. People who know him will run to this cartoon as soon as Charlie Kaufman wrote it. This story wasn't the kind of cartoon I'd normally see, and it didn't go too far beyond the standard of cartoons. There are no good ones released recently, but it has to be said that it is the best American animated film in recent times. Much better than Wish. It is better not to know what will happen next. Charlie Kaufman has added a lot of text like existential philosophy to children's cartoons, so I can't really think of them as just cartoons. One thing I'm sure of is that Charlie Kaufman understands kids these days very well. You will know why when you see the car. It's like what her father and mother said to Ori Yuan... Everyone is afraid. They are afraid that nothing will happen. This story is about "everyone's fear". It is not wrong to say that Orion and the Dark is a story that tells us about the beauty of the night.
