The Blue Flower Of Longing
A Soviet Latvian animation from the 1980s, Fairy Tale Sits on the Doorstep is about a water spirit talking to a child about the changing of the seasons. It won a Latvian National Film Award Lielais Kristaps For Jury's Special Award, and was directed by Roze Stiebra with music composed by Zigmars liepiņลก.Known as Sed Uz Slieksna Pasacina in its home country of Latvia, it can be viewed on YouTube for free. Here you go.
Tropes
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Amongst the populace of the land is a yellow bunny.
- Arc Words: The Blue Flower Of Longing.
- Atlantis: There's a mermaid and an underwater civilization is seen.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: The water spirit looks like a pretty, ethereal lady, while the villains are unholy Eldritch Abominations.
- Bizarre Seasons: Each season brings in unusual changes to the atmosphere - the sun is red and illuminates the sea into being yellow during the summer, the water overflows everything and encapsulates the top of the world during winter, and so on.
- Celestial Body: The "stars" are revealed to be a pretty crow that also turns into an ocean. The short is full of bizarre stuff like this.
- Eldritch Abomination: When the climate turns from cold and wet to hot and dry, the main character is surrounded by inhuman looking monsters.
- Flying Saucer: The seashells resemble these. Especially as near the end, the pixie and the water spirit stare at them float in the sky.
- Friend to All Living Things: Both the main character and the water spirit. Amongst their friends in the land are bunnies, birds and other animals, and the water spirit has her own horse.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghosts here are villainous and terrorize the main character.
- Green Aesop: One
Alternate Character Interpretation of the short is the horrors of climate change. - Otherworldly Technicolour Hair:
- The Big Good is a water spirit with blue and purple hair. Though she can also change it to white when she feels like it.
- The mermaid also has blue hair.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: The mermaid here is a topless woman who can breathe outside of water.
- Sentient Stars: The stars willingly move around to form the crow.
- Weird Weather: At some point, the sky turns pink and several shut eyes appear on it, shedding tears.
- White Stallion: The water spirit has a White Stallion with a grey mane.
