Hedgehog In The Fog: Quiz 2

The Hedgehog In The Fog is considered one of the greatest works in animation history. Simply because of the style, technique, and realism of director Yuriy Norshteyn. The story is about a hedgehog named Hedgehog and his journey to see his friend the bear cub. In the film Norshteyn uses his unique style of multi-dimensional figures and backgrounds. Norshteyn films have a type of depth to the art style that gives it a certain visual quality along with his story telling that adds to the quality and mood of his films. The films show a wide range of emotion from a happy laughter tone to somber and unsatisfactory. The animals also provide a fairy-tale-eques wonder-like magic that accompanies the animals in their environment. This magic makes the relation between humans and animals believable. Norshteyn creates a sense of wonder in the film by cleverly showing Hedgehog’s curiosity after he spots a white horse in the fog, wondering if it fell asleep it would drown in the fog, and then decides to explore the fog getting lost within it. Hedgehog continues to meet various creatures in the fog, along with a voice shouting his name, and ends up falling in a hole near a hollow tree, falling into a river. Hedgehog feels as if he is going to drown but ends up floating on his back and is later rescued by a creature swimming in the river (possibly a fish). Hedgehog is then reunited with bear cub and ends up thinking about the horse. Throughout the story it seems as if Hedgehog had a near death experience as seen by the owl (death) following him at the beginning and later spooking him in the fog, the white horse (an omen of death) and the voice calling for him to come to him (the light at the end of the tunnel). This shows how Norshteyn as well creates a sense of realism along with fantasy aspect that creates a wonderful film.