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Song of the Sea

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Song of the Sea	label	Song of the Sea
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Song of the Sea	comment	Song of the Sea is the second film from Cartoon Saloon and Tomm Moore, the creators of The Secret of Kells, and is the second in their Irish Folklore Trilogy encompassing Kells and Wolfwalkers. It was released on December 19, 2014, and it was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2015 Academy Awards.In 1981, tragedy struck an Irish family when a woman, Bronagh, vanished on a dark, stormy night, leaving behind her husband, Conor, her 4-year-old son, Ben, and the family dog, Cú, along with her newborn daughter, Saoirse. Six years have passed since then; Conor is still grieving and Ben harbours resentment towards his younger sister, silently blaming her for their mother's disappearance. Their Granny, who worries that Ben and Saoirse aren't safe living on an island far from the mainland, resorts to taking her grandkids to live with her in the city, while their father and dog remain at the isolated lighthouse Conor operates.Refusing to be without Cú, Ben plots to escape the city that Halloween night and get back to the lighthouse with Saoirse in tow. However, the night before the move there was a revelation: quiet little Saoirse is, in fact, a selkie (a mythological humanoid who is capable of shapeshifting into a seal when making contact with a large body of water). So now, brother and sister must work together, not just to get back home, but also to rescue a dying world filled with beings that Ben knows about only from his mother's stories. But he needs to overcome his darkest fears and she needs to find her voice (metaphorically and literally).See the official teaser here.Fortunately, it has its own production blog here. It also has its own Facebook page. A DVD of the movie with the Irish dub can be bought on Cartoon Saloon's online store here.Has nothing to do with Gordon Quid's "Song of the Sea". Thankfully.
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Song of the Sea / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Song of the Sea / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: A French trailer spoils the plot from beginning to end, even going as far as to include the last shot of the film.
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Song of the Sea / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Song of the Sea / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In the prologue, a 4-year-old Ben sleepily wonders to his mother if he and his unborn sibling will be best friends, to which his mother assures her son he'll be the best big brother in the whole world. Six years later, Ben has spent the entirety of Saoirse's life tormenting and resenting her, being neither friends with nor a good brother to his little sister.
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Song of the Sea / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Song of the Sea / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Zigzagged. Conor, knowing about the selkies, hides Saoirse's selkie coat in a locked chest and throws it into the sea so that he won't lose her the same way he lost Bronagh. But he probably doesn't figure that his actions make Saoirse's health deteriorate later on.
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Song of the Sea / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Song of the Sea / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the beginning, when Bronagh gives Ben the shell flute, she tells him that "This is an ancient shell that my mother gave me a long time ago. Hold it to your ear and listen carefully. You'll hear the song of the sea."
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Song of the Sea / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Song of the Sea / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: During a scene that takes place on a bus, Aisling is one of the passengers◊.
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Song of the Sea / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Song of the Sea / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Saoirse regains her coat and sings her song, ushering all of Ireland's fair folk across the sea to Tír na nÓg. She gives up her selkie coat to stay on Earth with her human family, taking with it the last remaining bond to the fairy world.
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Song of the Sea / int_1f42a0d6	type	Scary Flashlight Face
Song of the Sea / int_1f42a0d6	comment	Scary Flashlight Face: Ben uses a flashlight under his face while telling Saoirse the story of Macha the Owl Witch, to better scare his little sister.
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Song of the Sea / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Song of the Sea / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Though distant, Conor does try to lavish Saoirse with attention and still loves Ben even when the latter feels like The Unfavorite. However, he starts to believe in his inadequacies as a father and lets his mother take his children away.
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Song of the Sea / int_21321e38	type	Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing
Song of the Sea / int_21321e38	comment	Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: This is the dynamic between Ben and his little sister Saoirse. While Saoirse is a sweet and loving little girl, Ben is mainly snarky and cynical. Ben does manage to warm up by the film's end though.
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Song of the Sea / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Song of the Sea / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Saoirse looks like and takes after her selkie mother, Bronagh. Ben looks like Conor, but inherits his mother's talent for drawing.
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Song of the Sea / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Song of the Sea / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The shell flute, once Saoirse discovers it. Bronagh teaching Ben the Song of the Sea in the prologue.
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Song of the Sea / int_23386799	type	Door Dumb
Song of the Sea / int_23386799	comment	Door Dumb: At one point, Ben and Saoirse have to get beyond a metal gate. Ben starts climbing the gate, while Saoirse... just opens it.
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Song of the Sea / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Song of the Sea / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Granny calls Ben a "stubborn boy" when he's loudly refusing to leave the lighthouse. Macha calls Ben the same exact thing when he's not letting her get to the room she trapped Saoirse in. What makes it all the more ironic is the lack of malice in Macha's tone, making her lack of emotions all the more uncanny.
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Song of the Sea / int_24a99217	type	Maternal Death? Blame the Child!
Song of the Sea / int_24a99217	comment	Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Ben resents and silently blames his sister, Saoirse, for the disappearance of their mother, Bronagh, on the day of her birth. Not helping his attitude is the fact that their father, Conor, is very loving towards Saoirse, sometimes at the expense of Ben, leading Ben to develop into an Aloof Older Brother at best and a flat-out Big Brother Bully at worst. However, when she's dying from (partly) being half turned to stone, he apologizes and admits that none of it was her fault.
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Song of the Sea / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
Song of the Sea / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: Saoirse after blowing the shell flute to break Macha's emotion jars. The shell flute breaks, and Saoirse falls into semi-consciousness.
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Song of the Sea / int_27d00b28	type	Same Content, Different Rating
Song of the Sea / int_27d00b28	comment	Same Content, Different Rating: The film was rated PG in Ontario when shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, but was rated G on DVD.
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Song of the Sea / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Song of the Sea / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the story takes place over the course of only two days.
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Song of the Sea / int_287083f7	type	Power Floats
Song of the Sea / int_287083f7	comment	Power Floats: When Saoirse finally sings the song that frees the Daoine Sidhe, not only is her health restored, but she starts floating upward and her hair floats as well. Her body and her hair both stop floating when Bronagh takes away her selkie coat, which severs her ties to the fairy world.
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Song of the Sea / int_2906b25f	type	Dispel Magic
Song of the Sea / int_2906b25f	comment	Dispel Magic: The selkie song saves the fairies Taken for Granite by Macha.
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Song of the Sea / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Song of the Sea / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The standing stones in the roundabout spell out the names of the three daoine sídhe in the roundabout in Ogham, an ancient alphabet: Mossi/y, Lug and Spud.
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Song of the Sea / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Song of the Sea / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: A majority of the film is set on Halloween as Ben seeks to return home to Conor's lighthouse but he and Saoirse end up on an adventure that will decide the fate of all the fairies.
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Song of the Sea / int_2c467b4b	type	Stop Drowning and Stand Up
Song of the Sea / int_2c467b4b	comment	Stop Drowning and Stand Up: At the beginning of the film, Ben gets pulled into the sea by Cú, and is too busy panicking to notice that the tide is barely over the knee of his little sister.
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Song of the Sea / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
Song of the Sea / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: Ben tethers Saoirse to him using Cú's leash, releasing her only when they're reunited with Cú.
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Song of the Sea / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Song of the Sea / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Bronagh, Ben, and Saoirse sing the titular Song of the Sea in Irish. When Granny scolds Ben for ruining Saoirse's birthday, she calls him "you little tachrán". "Tachrán" means small kid in Irish. Lug, Mossy, Spud, the Great Seanachai, and Ben sing the part of "Dúlamán"'s actual lyrics, an Irish song about the titular seaweed. When the Great Seanachai summons lights, he says Suas, suas na Soilse beag! Translation Up, up the little lights!. He also sings "Cailleach an Airgid" in Irish. At one point, Macha says "mo chroi", meaning my heart in Irish.
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Song of the Sea / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Song of the Sea / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: The coats worn by the Selkies. Without them, they cannot talk and will eventually die.
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Song of the Sea / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
Song of the Sea / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: Ben is a rare justified example that isn't Played for Laughs. Sure, he'll flounder pathetically in knee-high seawater, but he's also traumatized from losing his mother to the ocean. Inverted later on when he still manages to sink to the bottom of a Holy Well, and the bottom of the sea, and resurface after running out of breath to no ill effect. Granted, both cases involved magic and surrealism.
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Song of the Sea / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Song of the Sea / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In a moment of petty spite, Ben pushes Saoirse face-first into her birthday cake, just as Granny's camera takes a photo. Conor sends him to his room. Later that night, Saoirse silently asks him to tell her one of their mother's stories, and Ben proceeds to scare her with the story of Macha, going so far as to say that if the Owl Witch were to steal Conor's emotions, nobody would love her (the implication being that Ben doesn't love his sister). Ben then tops it off by dressing up as Macha and scaring Saoirse into her bed. He ultimately sees he went too far but is too prideful to apologize. Macha in the almost-literal sense when she forces her way in her attic which Cú was preventing her from doing to protect Ben and Saoirse from her.
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Song of the Sea / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Song of the Sea / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: The film starts with Ben being a petty jerk towards his sister, Saoirse (post-time skip). But as the film progresses, Ben ultimately realizes how much he was wrong to bully her. By the film's end, Ben becomes a much kinder and responsible big brother.
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Song of the Sea / int_3f2a490e	type	It Kind of Looks Like a Face
Song of the Sea / int_3f2a490e	comment	It Kind of Looks Like a Face: Throughout the film there are rocks that have vaguely human faces, which turn out to be fairies turned to stone by Macha. At one point, Ben and Saoirse pass a row of electric pylons that resemble owls.
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Song of the Sea / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Song of the Sea / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Saoirse is saved from dying, her song is able to send the Daoine Sídhe home, and Ben has grown to truly love her, but Bronagh is now gone from the human world forever and Saoirse can only stay behind by sacrificing her selkie side. Nonetheless, the story ends on the note that Ben and Saoirse's family is no longer broken as it was before, and Saoirse is finally able to speak without needing her selkie coat.
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Song of the Sea / int_41899e45	type	Monster-Shaped Mountain
Song of the Sea / int_41899e45	comment	Monster-Shaped Mountain: The rock near Conor's lighthouse looks like the legendary giant, Mac Lir. It is the actual Mac Lir, Taken for Granite because his mother, Macha, took his grief to save the world from drowning in his tears.
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Song of the Sea / int_48c24da4	type	Significant Double Casting
Song of the Sea / int_48c24da4	comment	Significant Double Casting: Three times. Brendan Gleeson as Conor/Mac Lir. Both men paralysed by grief after losing a loved one. Fionula Flannigan as Granny/Macha. Stern older women who believe they know what’s best for their loved ones, and acting on that belief, while ignoring the feelings of those same loved ones. Additionally, the respective mothers of the previous example. Jon Kenny as Ferry Dan/ Great Seanachaí. Eccentric older figures who attempt to aid Ben without much success.
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Song of the Sea / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Song of the Sea / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: As the Great Seanachai points out, Ben has to find Saoirse's selkie coat and return it to her until the dawn.
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Song of the Sea / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Song of the Sea / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The Irish countryside looks great, as do all the places where the fey folk live. Quite a bit of Ghibli Hills, too.
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Song of the Sea / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Song of the Sea / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After spending the majority of the movie as a Cute Mute, Saoirse finally gets her coat back moments before she's about to die, leading to this. Notable in that being reunited with her selkie coat not only saved her life, but also gave her her voice.
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Song of the Sea / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Song of the Sea / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The image of the white seal towards the ending.
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Song of the Sea / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Song of the Sea / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: It's easy to miss because of the simple art style, but Macha has half her body turned to stone from syphoning her own emotions and putting them in jars. The same thing is happening to Saoirse when she and Ben reunite.
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Song of the Sea / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
Song of the Sea / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Saoirse's hair starts to turn white to show how a long time without wearing her selkie coat is taking a toll on her body. Bronagh, in the beginning, got some white hair to show how bad her pregnancy really was for her.
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Song of the Sea / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Song of the Sea / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Conor visits the pub on Saoirse's birthday because it reminded him of his wife's disappearance six years ago.
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Song of the Sea / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Song of the Sea / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film begins with Saoirse's birthday (her actual birth in the prologue, and her sixth in the main plot). The ending also features a birthday, but this time, it's Ben's. There's also smashing one sibling's face into the cake. This time, in the end, it's a good-natured smash.
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Song of the Sea / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
Song of the Sea / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: When Ben revisits the memory of the fateful night of Saoirse's birth and his mother's disappearance.
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Song of the Sea / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Song of the Sea / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: There are no outright evil characters in the film, not even Macha.
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Song of the Sea / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Song of the Sea / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ben is terrified of the water, since his father warned him the ocean was dangerous nearly all his life.(Which he, in turn, said only because his wife disappeared into it). Too bad for Ben, since his sister is a selkie, and so open water is a de facto part of their journey.
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Song of the Sea / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Song of the Sea / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Family and dealing with loss. Bronagh's disappearance makes Conor depressed and alcoholic, and Ben blames Saoirse in his grief. Mac Lir was so grieved for an unspecified reason that Macha stole his emotions and petrified him to stop it. Ben realizing the truth helps him move on and apologize to Saoirse. The Selkie's song beckons all the fairies to pass on, and Bronagh leaves for good, although Saoirse chooses to stay.
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Song of the Sea / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Song of the Sea / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The end credits show animated storyboards.
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Song of the Sea / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Song of the Sea / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The movie starts with Ben being 4-years-old with his mom in 1981. Then it jumps to 1987, when he's now 10 and Saoirse is 6. Then there's another skip at the end to Ben's 11th birthday.
Song of the Sea / int_5fcb9ad1	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_5fcb9ad1	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_5fcb9ad1
Song of the Sea / int_6641b769	type	Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower
Song of the Sea / int_6641b769	comment	Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower: The Great Seanachai relates the story of the giant Mac Lir, who cried so much that the world was on the precipice of flooding. Macha had to take extreme measures by stealing her son's emotions and turning him to stone to relieve him of his suffering.
Song of the Sea / int_6641b769	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_6641b769	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_6641b769
Song of the Sea / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Song of the Sea / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: At the end of the film, when Saoirse sings, rather than the fae turned to stone by Macha returning to their natural state, what appear to be their souls are drawn out, leaving their still-petrified bodies behind.
Song of the Sea / int_66479d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_66479d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_66479d0
Song of the Sea / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Song of the Sea / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Bronagh disappears giving birth to Saoirse in the night. As a result, her husband, Conor, has become wistful and distant and her son, Ben, blames Saoirse for their mother's disappearance. Justified in that the childbirth was going wrong and Bronagh had to quickly assume selkie form to give birth. Toward the end, her spirit bids her family farewell as she has to go across the sea with the other fairies to their homeland.
Song of the Sea / int_66dfe36a	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_66dfe36a	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_66dfe36a
Song of the Sea / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Song of the Sea / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Saoirse at the end, when Bronagh takes her selkie coat, allowing her to remain with Conor, Ben, and Cù, while the rest of the Fair Folk return to Tír na nÓg. However, in exchange she's no longer The Speechless, being able to speak without needing to wear a selkie coat.
Song of the Sea / int_66ea7e5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_66ea7e5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_66ea7e5c
Song of the Sea / int_686424b6	type	Go to Your Room!
Song of the Sea / int_686424b6	comment	Go to Your Room!: Conor sends Ben to his room as punishment for smashing Saoirse's face into her birthday cake.
Song of the Sea / int_686424b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_686424b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_686424b6
Song of the Sea / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Song of the Sea / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: It's buried deep under years of blame and resentment, but Ben learns to tap into it.
Song of the Sea / int_69681e01	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_69681e01	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_69681e01
Song of the Sea / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
Song of the Sea / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Bronagh's disappearance turned Conor into a depressed alcoholic and Ben into a Big Brother Bully to Saoirse.
Song of the Sea / int_6a42ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_6a42ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_6a42ef
Song of the Sea / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Song of the Sea / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Ben's confrontation with Macha mirrors his earlier confrontation with Granny in the lighthouse, from Cú being alongside Ben, to Macha calling him "stubborn boy" (albeit in a pleasant voice tone).
Song of the Sea / int_6bd689ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_6bd689ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_6bd689ca
Song of the Sea / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Song of the Sea / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Several names are derived from Irish; the mother's name, Bronagh, roughly means "sorrow" and Saoirse means "freedom". And then there's Cú, Ben and Saoirse's dog, whose name literally means "dog" or "hound".
Song of the Sea / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_6bda9a30
Song of the Sea / int_6dc502d1	type	Big Brother Worship
Song of the Sea / int_6dc502d1	comment	Big Brother Worship: Despite the above, Saoirse clearly idolizes Ben. When she starts speaking for the first time, his name is her first word.
Song of the Sea / int_6dc502d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_6dc502d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_6dc502d1
Song of the Sea / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
Song of the Sea / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: Played with; the second to last scene has everyone laughing during Ben's birthday, but the final scene shows Ben and Saoirse swimming together with the seals.
Song of the Sea / int_6eb04f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_6eb04f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_6eb04f1
Song of the Sea / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Song of the Sea / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: A subtle example. Ben developed a fear of water and wears a life-jacket (even on dry land) throughout most of the film. He finally lets go of his fear during the climax, where he removes his life-jacket to find Saoirse's seal skin underwater.
Song of the Sea / int_77c0952e	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_77c0952e	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_77c0952e
Song of the Sea / int_77fb9fbe	type	Cathartic Crying
Song of the Sea / int_77fb9fbe	comment	Cathartic Crying: Macha is a witch who steals emotions from other people, which turns those people to stone. It is later revealed that her actions are not done out of malice, but rather out of a desire to end suffering. She even does this to herself and her son Mac Lir in order to stop their pain. When Ben convinces Saoirse to use the shell flute to break the jars holding Macha's emotions, Macha is overwhelmed by the returning emotions and weeps in regret over turning her son to stone.
Song of the Sea / int_77fb9fbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_77fb9fbe	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_787c6068	type	My Significance Sense Is Tingling
Song of the Sea / int_787c6068	comment	My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Granny somehow senses while she's asleep that Saoirse is outside in the water. Near the end, she also senses that her grandchildren are back at the lighthouse.
Song of the Sea / int_787c6068	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_787c6068	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_787c6068
Song of the Sea / int_789d50eb	type	Multilingual Song
Song of the Sea / int_789d50eb	comment	Multilingual Song: "The Song" has lyrics in both Irish and English. The verses of the film's version of "Dúlamán" are in English, but the chorus is in Irish (though the English verses were written specifically for the film, and the original folk song is entirely in Irish).
Song of the Sea / int_789d50eb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_7f16e7a4	type	Shapeshifting Lover
Song of the Sea / int_7f16e7a4	comment	Shapeshifting Lover: Bronagh is a selkie who's Happily Married to Conor, a human lighthouse keeper. They have a son and daughter named Ben and Saoirse together, but she returns to the sea giving birth to Saoirse in the night. The story focuses instead on Ben and Saoirse's journey to save both the lives of the fairies and Saoirse after their father throws her selkie coat into the sea which makes her ill.
Song of the Sea / int_7f16e7a4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Song of the Sea / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Saoirse going out for a midnight swim with the seals to test out her power, and not getting back into the lighthouse before Granny realizes, leads to Conor tossing away her coat and sending her and Ben to live with Granny. This starts a chain of events that leads to Saoirse's health declining.
Song of the Sea / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_7fbb2a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_7fbb2a3
Song of the Sea / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Song of the Sea / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: In the epilogue, Saoirse smashes Ben's face into his birthday cake, just as he did to her on her own birthday. While Ben is surprised at first, he soon laughs about it along with everyone else, showing how his relationship with Saoirse has become more positive.
Song of the Sea / int_8042e814	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_8042e814	featureConfidence	1.0
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_8042e814
Song of the Sea / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Song of the Sea / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: All over the place; other names for them are mentioned, too, such as "Good Neighbours", "The Other Crowd", "Daoine Sídhe", "Fairies", "The Sídhe". The trope is downplayed since most of the Daoine Sidhe Ben and Saoirse encounter are reclusive but still friendly; even Macha, the dreaded Owl Witch who turns people to stone by stealing their emotions, is more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist who's under the misguided belief that she's helping them.
Song of the Sea / int_859ec5d8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Song of the Sea / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Ben when navigating back to the lighthouse tries to take the bus after the fairies tell him that Saoirse needs her coat. Saoirse proceeds to force him to exit it, leaving them forced to walk the way back. On the other hand, this allows him and Saoirse to reunite with Cú and convince Macha to have a Heel Realization.
Song of the Sea / int_86f4f393	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Song of the Sea / int_86f4f393
Song of the Sea / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Song of the Sea / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Ever since Bronagh left, it's apparent that Conor pays more attention to Saoirse than he does Ben. This inevitably makes his relationship with Ben grow increasingly distant.
Song of the Sea / int_88933ad4	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_88933ad4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_898266d8	type	Travel Montage
Song of the Sea / int_898266d8	comment	Travel Montage: As Granny takes Ben and Saoirse to the city, Ben prepares a map to lead him back home. The crayon-drawn map is shown combined with scenes of the car on the road.
Song of the Sea / int_898266d8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_93decddf	type	Ominous Owl
Song of the Sea / int_93decddf	comment	Ominous Owl: Macha the Owl Witch has owls as her minions. The stories about her cast her as a Wicked Witch who turns people to stone. However, it turns out that she's not so ominous once she realizes the consequences of her actions.
Song of the Sea / int_93decddf	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_93decddf	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Song of the Sea / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Ben on seeing what really happened the night his mother disappeared and Saoirse wasn't to blame. Once the feelings Macha has been quite literally bottling up for centuries are released, the witch finally sees how wrong her idea of "helping" is.
Song of the Sea / int_9591377d	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_9591377d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Song of the Sea / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The shell flute is this for Ben as it was given to him by his mom shortly before she vanished. It breaks when Saoirse uses it to give Macha her emotions back. Oddly enough, nobody brings up the fact that it broke.
Song of the Sea / int_97d54bb0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Song of the Sea / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Conor and Granny in agreeing to have the children live with Granny on the mainland inadvertently leads to Saoirse nearly dying. Conor also threw away her coat on seeing that she used it. As Macha lampshades, by turning Saoirse to stone she wasted the little time that the girl had, and makes up for it by sending her son's dogs to guide Saoirse, Ben and Cú back to the lighthouse.
Song of the Sea / int_99ddfcec	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_99ddfcec	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9c9e4682	type	Blush Sticker
Song of the Sea / int_9c9e4682	comment	Blush Sticker: Ben, Saoirse and Bronagh have prominent ones.
Song of the Sea / int_9c9e4682	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_9c9e4682	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9d0b9603	type	Eye Cam
Song of the Sea / int_9d0b9603	comment	Eye Cam: Used when Ben goes to sleep early on.
Song of the Sea / int_9d0b9603	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Song of the Sea / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The white sleeves and coat apart of Bronagh's dress in the beginning resemble an animal's fur, foreshadowing her selkie nature. It's later revealed that the white coat she wears is in fact her selkie coat. When Saoirse dons her seal skin and enters the water, she starts mimicking the seal's squealing and we clearly hear a tiny voice trying to escape. This indicates that she's able to speak while wearing her selkie coat, even if she doesn't actually do so until near the end of the story. When Saoirse is following the glowing particles up the lighthouse staircase after blowing on the shell, her shadow appears to be that of a seal rather than a human. Lug, Mossy and Spud try to remember a song verse, only to have Ben, hidden behind a stone statue, remind them of it. They are clearly unaware that Ben is around and assume that the stones were speaking. This could be passed off as Rule of Funny obliviousness, until it's revealed that these stone statues are actually their fairy comrades, transformed by Macha's owls. The opening of the film has Bronagh recite from the poem "The Stolen Child" by William Butler Yeats, which is about a group of fairies luring a human child to their world under the impression that they're sparing the child from suffering. This is much like how Macha believes that stealing emotions from human children and fairies alike will take away their suffering. Bronagh teaching young Ben the words to the selkie song in the prologue. Ferry Dan refers to Granny as an "Old Witch!" twice, telegraphing the And You Were There appearance of Macha. Likewise, one brief shot features Conor on the ferry and Mac Lir island in the background, predicting Mac Lir's And You Were There moment.
Song of the Sea / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Song of the Sea / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "WHERE. IS. HER. COAT?!"
Song of the Sea / int_9e0c3153	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9ee0d3eb	type	Land of Faerie
Song of the Sea / int_9ee0d3eb	comment	Land of Faerie: Implied to be where the Fair Folk go in the end. Pretty much confirmed since the lyrics of the three Daoine Sídhe in the roundabout say that 'Manannán will lead and Tír na nÓg will follow' when the Selkie sings the Song of the Sea. This counts as a Genius Bonus since the full name of the sea giant is Manannán mac Lir (he's only called Mac Lir in-movie) and Tír na nÓg is literally the Land of Faerie "across the sea".
Song of the Sea / int_9ee0d3eb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Song of the Sea / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Conor knew (maybe even before Ben was born) that Bronagh is a selkie. Ben realized this. Granny may or may not know, which would explain how she senses her kids are in danger.
Song of the Sea / int_9f970427	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
Song of the Sea / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Conor and Granny have this attitude towards Ben. Even when Saoirse is on the precipice of death, Conor refuses to believe Ben's insistence that she needs her seal coat, though this has more to do with Conor's fear that he could lose Saoirse to the sea as he did Bronagh and he wants to get his sickly daughter to a hospital as soon as possible.
Song of the Sea / int_9fb5d589	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_9fb5d589	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Song of the Sea / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Macha, after her emotions are restored. She is forced to confront the fact that she wasn't actually helping anyone by stealing their emotions, and almost cost Saoirse her life by stealing what little time she had to get to her coat. Conor has one after losing his temper with Ben, driving his son to tears. Ben has a minor instance of this when he frightens Saoirse with the story of Macha and sees that he went too far. He's too prideful to apologize, but he assures her it's only a story. Ben has this reaction when he's in the cave and sees what really happened to Bronagh on the night Saoirse was born. He's barely holding back his tears by the time the flashback ends, realizing how wrong it was for him to blame his sister for what happened.
Song of the Sea / int_a1b141f4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Song of the Sea / int_a60e3252	comment	Lug, Mossy and Spud try to remember a song verse, only to have Ben, hidden behind a stone statue, remind them of it. They are clearly unaware that Ben is around and assume that the stones were speaking. This could be passed off as Rule of Funny obliviousness, until it's revealed that these stone statues are actually their fairy comrades, transformed by Macha's owls.
Song of the Sea / int_a60e3252	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
Song of the Sea / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: It rains when Ben and Saoirse are taken away from their beloved island by Granny.
Song of the Sea / int_a8982539	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Song of the Sea / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Ben's memory of the songs and stories his mother teaches him allows him to help Saoirse play the shell flute to break Macha's jars, and later to sing the song that restores her health and save the fairy creatures.
Song of the Sea / int_acecb17d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Song of the Sea / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Towards the end of the film, Bronagh tells Saoirse that since she's half human, she has a choice of whether to join Bronagh and the other sidhe across the sea, or stay with Ben and Conor. Saoirse ultimately chooses to stay in the human world.
Song of the Sea / int_add931af	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Song of the Sea / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: How Macha felt when seizing her son's emotions and turning him to stone as a means to take away his suffering. Notably, it may have been also that Mac Lir's grief was drowning the world and her intervention did help matters at the time.
Song of the Sea / int_b17f6a27	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_b5b4c0cf	type	The End
Song of the Sea / int_b5b4c0cf	comment	The End: The final scene of the film is simply the word "Críoch", which is Irish for "end".
Song of the Sea / int_b5b4c0cf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Song of the Sea / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last scene shows the family after a Time Skip of a few weeks or months, with Ben and Saoirse living happily together with their father and granny on the island.
Song of the Sea / int_b77808f2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Song of the Sea / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: For starters, the two main characters are named Saoirse and Ben. And their parents are named Bronagh and Conor. Again, that's Ireland for you. This actually can be viewed as a functional distinction in the story. If you look are just looking at these family names, Bronagh and Saoirse are selkies, whereas Ben and Conor are human. The hair colours also set them apart.
Song of the Sea / int_b9d334b2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
Song of the Sea / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: A unique, platonic case is subtly presented between Ben and Saoirse. The siblings' room has bunk beds, but because of his resentment of Saoirse, Ben elects to sleep in his own bed, which is covered by a drape for good measure.
Song of the Sea / int_b9f8c6f8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Song of the Sea / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Cú is almost a literal one for Ben, at least at first. While not a bad kid, he clearly resents his little sister for the disappearance of their mom and the attention she gets from their father, and so often bullies or neglects her. Cú has to bark insistently, and sometimes physically drag him by the leash, to get Ben to do the right thing.
Song of the Sea / int_b9fd7929	featureApplicability	1.0
Song of the Sea / int_b9fd7929	featureConfidence	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Song of the Sea / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Conor with Bronagh before her disappearance.
Song of the Sea / int_bec0417c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Song of the Sea / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: At one point, Conor slides his drink away, assuming he plans to try to keep his family together, until Granny thought Saoirse nearly drowned.
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Song of the Sea / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Song of the Sea / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The opening lines of the film, said by Bronagh, are directly quoted from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Stolen Child". The scene where Ben and Saoirse ride Cú's back accompanied by Mac Lir's hounds to get home is meant to reference the Cat Bus ride in My Neighbor Totoro. Director Tomm Moore has stated that Totoro was a prominent influence on the film. Similarly, being a fat, squat witch with a gigantic head who grows angrier and angrier at the child protagonist who has invaded her house, Macha shares a great deal with Yubaba. And, after being revealed as having been Good All Along and helping the protagonist by providing them with the ability to quickly arrive where they must, Zeniba. At Granny's house, when Saoirse passes by Conor's old room, The Rolling Stones' famous logo can be seen on the door as well as The Who's. Later, we can see that there are several posters in the room that reference other famous musicians of the time. The song Lug, Mossy and Spud sing is "Dúlamán", a real Irish folk song. While the verses they sing are in English and were composed specifically for the movie, the chorus is sung in the original Irish.
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Song of the Sea / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
Song of the Sea / int_c8db76f6	comment	Likewise, one brief shot features Conor on the ferry and Mac Lir island in the background, predicting Mac Lir's And You Were There moment.
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Song of the Sea / int_cd149b1e	type	Silent Treatment
Song of the Sea / int_cd149b1e	comment	Silent Treatment: Granny's attitude towards Dan the Ferryman when he's only trying to be friendly.
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Song of the Sea / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Song of the Sea / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Compared to The Secret of Kells, mainly due to the lack of Viking pillaging. The film still has some emotionally heavy moments, though.
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Song of the Sea / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Song of the Sea / int_d001c42c	comment	Granny and Macha are both meddlesome elderly women who play antagonistic roles in the story but are actually both well-intentioned Anti-Villains who want to help their loved ones. Meanwhile, Conor and Mac Lir are both large bearded men who are mourning a lost family member. They are also the sons of Granny and Macha, respectively. The difference is that whereas Macha's concern for her child eventually led her over the edge into becoming a monster and Mac Lir couldn't let go of his sadness even if it meant destroying everything, Granny and Conor are both able to get over their problems.
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Song of the Sea / int_d00fa9ec	type	Myth Prologue
Song of the Sea / int_d00fa9ec	comment	Myth Prologue: The movie begins with young Ben and his mother painting a wall mural of a selkie, the Daoine Sídhe, the Great Seanchaí, Macha's owls, and Mac Lir, all of whom will later come into play throughout the story.
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Song of the Sea / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Song of the Sea / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: What happens to the Fair Folk when they're deprived of their emotions by Macha.
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Song of the Sea / int_d3c6cf4f	type	Unwilling Suspension
Song of the Sea / int_d3c6cf4f	comment	Unwilling Suspension: Ben briefly gets tangled up in the Great Seanchai's hair and suspended from the ceiling of his cave.
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Song of the Sea / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Song of the Sea / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: At the end, Saoirse sings the titular Song of the Sea, allowing the fairies to leave the human world and go home to Tír na nÓg; her mother, a selkie, must leave with them, but Saoirse herself is allowed to shed her selkie half and remain with her human family.
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Song of the Sea / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Song of the Sea / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: Aisling from The Secret of Kells (Cartoon Saloon's first film) can be seen sitting on a bus full of children in Halloween costumes.
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Song of the Sea / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Song of the Sea / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: No matter how much she wants to reside in the human world, Bronagh (or at least her ghost) is bound to the fairy world, so when the portal opens up, she has to depart. This would have been the case with Saoirse, but luckily because of her human heritage Bronagh is able to take her seal skin so Saoirse can continue to reside with her family.
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Song of the Sea / int_e0c5d0bc	type	We Are Not Going Through That Again
Song of the Sea / int_e0c5d0bc	comment	We Are Not Going Through That Again: Played for Drama. Conor tosses away Saoirse's selkie coat because he doesn't want to lose her the way he lost Bronagh. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that not only is Saoirse unable to speak without her coat, she'll also fall ill and die.
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Song of the Sea / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Song of the Sea / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: In-Universe. Macha laments how the old myths and legends paint her as a Wicked Witch who steals emotions and has turned her son, Mac Lir, to stone all For the Evulz. In truth, the story fails to mention how she stole her son's emotions to save the world from drowning in his tears, which she couldn't bear to see, while the theft of other fairies' emotions stems from her belief that she's helping them, not out of pure malice. She's still doing wrong, but she at least has a somewhat logical argument to justify it all. Of course, she sees how wrong she's been after getting her own emotions back.
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Song of the Sea / int_e3ada02f	type	Gender Equals Breed
Song of the Sea / int_e3ada02f	comment	Gender Equals Breed: Ben and Saoirse have a human father and a selkie mother. While Ben is a human like his father, Saoirse is a selkie like her mother. Saoirse becomes completely human at the end, though, since she had to give up her selkie powers in order to stay in the human world.
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Song of the Sea / int_e47f8c8	type	Sweet Seal
Song of the Sea / int_e47f8c8	comment	Sweet Seal: Saoirse is an adorable little girl who is a selkie, and thus can shapeshift into an equally adorable little seal. She becomes friends with a group of normal, non-shapeshifting seals who are almost as cute as her.
Song of the Sea / int_e47f8c8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Song of the Sea / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Song of the Sea / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Bronagh and Conor; tragically so, as he remains in the human world while she eventually returns to the fairy world. But that's how selkie/human relationships tend to go...
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Song of the Sea / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
Song of the Sea / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: While this film focuses more on the sea, Ben and Saoirse still travel through the Irish countryside after they escape Granny's house in the city to get back home, and there are lingering shots of the scenery as they walk through it.
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Song of the Sea / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Song of the Sea / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Most of the characters are only known by their first names.
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Song of the Sea / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
Song of the Sea / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: Ben's facial expression before dunking Saoirse's face into the cake.
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Song of the Sea / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
Song of the Sea / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Upon meeting Macha, Ben, though intimidated, immediately reaches out to her and begs her for help, understanding that Macha is a victim of her own doing when he sees how half of her body is turned to stone.
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Song of the Sea / int_f09ac6a6	type	Chekhov M.I.A.
Song of the Sea / int_f09ac6a6	comment	Chekhov M.I.A.: Bronagh was never said to have died, so her reappearance was almost inevitable.
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Song of the Sea / int_f1e6402d	type	Suddenly Speaking
Song of the Sea / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: After spending nearly the whole movie mute, Saoirse gets her selkie coat back, which restores her to full health so she can sing her song and finally start talking.
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Song of the Sea / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
Song of the Sea / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: Ben promises to come back for Cú. And he does, though they meet half-way.
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Song of the Sea / int_f974d1fc	type	The Shadow Knows
Song of the Sea / int_f974d1fc	comment	The Shadow Knows: As Saoirse climbs the lighthouse stairs with the seashell, her shadow is that of her selkie form.
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Song of the Sea / int_fe42181f	type	Selkies and Wereseals
Song of the Sea / int_fe42181f	comment	Selkies and Wereseals: Selkies are distinguished from normal seals by the white seal skins that they shed to transform into humans on land. Saoirse can't speak and slowly falls ill without her seal skin, which her human father hides because he doesn't want to lose her the way he lost her selkie mother. Near the end of the film, she sends all the fairies home across the sea with the titular Song of the Sea, echoing The Legend of Chekhov told by Ben.
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Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Always with You / int_a4602af6
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	And You Were There / int_a4602af6
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Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Land of Faerie / int_a4602af6
Song of the Sea	hasFeature	Lighthouse Point / int_a4602af6
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The Secret of Kells	seeAlso	Song of the Sea

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