Steve Reviews: Leafie A Hen Into The Wild 

Is the book as dark?

AS THE BOOK IS HORROR

Where does the believe stem from that chickens cannot fly...They are no hawks but they still can.

@@vHindenburg “flying” by her soul is gliding with the sky

@@vHindenburg it's because there's a stereotype that they're "too fat and stupid". People thing the same for turkey and peacock.

If they're rescued early enough in their lifespan and are kept on a more natural lay schedule using only natural light to regulate their cycle they can live fairly long lives, but they definitely are never going to be as fit and healthy as a heritage hen. If I had to guess, Leafie is probably based roughly on a brown leghorn. The hens have a yellowish head/neck, dark brown body, and somewhat lighter underfluff. The most common breed of egg hen (at least in my part of the world) is a white leghorn and brown leghorn productivity is negligibly different from the solid variety so it would make sense.

Whoa, Jesus.

Like being loaded on ass loads of antibiotics all the time means her immune system is probably garbage

if leafie was a cornish/broiler hen that would definitely be the case, as they were specifically bred to grow as fast as possible so if they aren't killed anyway they just grow so large to the point of either dying from organ failure bc of being so unnaturally large in such a short amount of time or they become crippled at simply their sheer weight and size they are forced to grow into. i honestly think these types of chickens shouldn't even exist, they were literally just bred to suffer

I have a friend who cares for rescued battery hens. Sadly, they never last longer than six months or so; but she always does her best to give them a comfortable life. I understand the need for fast production, but there's got to be a way to get plenty of eggs without being cruel to the hens.

This is even more sad than mufasa death in my opinion, back then when i was a kid mufasa death didnt really broke my heart, yeah its little bit touching but not as sad as toy story 3 ending and even "9" ending

Thematic content

@@walterfritzzzI don’t really remember 9 that well but I do remember the nightmares

Ironically I've read the book and I just found out that is has a movie

People want happy endings in America, the US wants everyone to have toxic positivity.

Korean is way better

Death isn’t sad it’s a happy ending! you are free from your sufferings..

Yet I've seen the English version and I remember the ending being in it??? Until now it's the only bit I remember out of the whole thing outside of the race. Guess I'll go and watch the original.

The problem is censorship. I want corporations to stop trying to retcon reality. If you don't think it's acceptable for children, don't show it to children. Don't amputate it.

Sucks because the original ending IS happy imo, it's not dark for the sake of having a dark ending, it's dark in a beautiful way

To be honest I kinda hate the happy ending but I don't hate tragic ones just don't over do it but but I I wish I could see a movie/TV show that shows the highs and lows of a life or say something like an insane narrator that hides it well and is untrustworthy but it is hard to tell what is made up and all that jazz

Westerns can't handle the truth.

honestly thought, like you can feel the pain. in the dub it's just kinda awkward how the mouth and facial expressions convay and whole different tone compared to te dub voice.

@@prehistoricorchid3455 As a russian, i can tell she still sounded really emotional in our dub, but a bit rougher in the voice. Also, i'm glad it was translated straight from the korean original since sometimes our people just translate the english dub. And it didn't even got censored or cut. Blessing X)

@@gottastoppo that's good tbh. I wish the American one didn't have such a shity and misleading cut

@@prehistoricorchid3455 yeah, not jealous with your dub of it, guys. But at least we can almost freely watch it through subs, with no misleading.

@@gottastoppo true true

Lmao yes. We kill and eat things.

@@magnarcreed3801 Doubt the chicken is so aware of the nuance... or held a knife to an infant in return for a human not scrambling some eggs lol

He said that in the video...

@@littlemoth4956 He said that it was his speculation. I only confirmed his speculation.

@@littlemoth4956 😑

@@littlemoth4956 wow you're a genius

@@analigiabatres9114 How sarcastic~. Here. Have some medal.

Hi can you please do the movie wolf house it is very disturbing and creepy

It's Korea after all

Actually there’s a Korean actor who has his hair styled like this who plays a lot of cool and sort of “I’m so done with everyone’s sh** I need to retire” type of characters. He’s in a lot of shows and I guess that look became associated with dark and cool characters.

Lmao i thought I'm the only one who thought so XD

@R P I literally don’t remember his name but I’m glad you know who I’m referring to. All I remember is he’s in a lot of Korean dramas.

Nice

I mean that technicly was the plot, considering the end...

Oh, that's horrible. XD

It's not that sad, though? Ok it's sad. But the strong implication that Leafy wasn't going to survive the winter anyway made it kinda sweet that she chose to let her body go to feeding the predator's babies, instead of letting her meat go to waste. Although all that does is result in more predators, meaning more ducks will get killed. ....Dammit, Leafy.

I watched it just now it was bittersweet wholesome thought those 3 ducks are so ugly

Which is why we were recommending it....!

Yup This Movie has recommended for him for a while

Indeed.

I always thought it was her son’s point of view so I just thought this scene was cool, but when he said that I almost started to cry, even after death she still wants to protect her son 😭

"Strike me down, and you only make me stronger."

@@glenfoxh -Obi Wan

Me too! 🥲

I don’t like to admit it but i did to!😢

i see that reference how dare you :(

You can at least give credit to Don Bluth's older films that he had a lot of dark themes to them even though they are films that he produced for the whole family to watch, and yes, kids too. And while his films typically had happy endings, there was a lot of sh*t and sad events that happened too. So in conclusion, I give Don props for at least being an American animation film producer that doesn't shy away from dark and depressing themes in children's films similarly to countries outside of the US. If you haven't already, check out Secret of NIMH, The Land Before Time, An American Tail and All Dogs Go to Heaven. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. :)

I.. sort of like that to be honest, I'm not really a fan of sad endings, sort of why I stay away from these kinds of things

It was also in Disney's Oliver & Company film

I think that was actually his last attempt to put a stop to the weasel. If he didn't confront her that night, the weasel would have gone for Leafie and possibly their egg. During most of the fight he was moving backwards and trying to avoid hits, rather than land them. And when the weasel grabbed his leg, he flew as high as he could with her with the hope that the fall would kill her.

@@suchomimustenerensis5302 That was heavily implied to be the case in the original novel.

It's always bothered me just making the predotor a vilan.

Yeah like predators aren't just copies of evil people lol

@@lunawolfheart336 yeah same

@MewSkiix Oh, be careful saying that in a RU-vid comment section. I'll be the first to tell you that is a horrible idea lmao

@@StrabbyStrabby Hey... I'm a vegan get ready here it comes...

lol yeah.

What about Bambi?

I mean scaring kids life isn't a good idea they are KIDS They should slowly learn about it as they age on

@@a1marine105 Doesn't mean everything has to be brain dead. I agree stuff like Watership Down can be a bit overkill, but this film is just genuinely moving and makes you really *feel*. There's no guts and gore or anything.

@@darkfang797 I think they’re talking more recent-foreign films compared to recent-foreign films today

If this movie was human characters instead of animals, he would totally be the emo anime prettyboy.

I always thought Leafie had a crush on him

@@bluejay43 he’s already the emo anime prettyboy

Get help you weirdo

@@UntamedEtherealOfficial my reaction when I saw him:

Yeah, the twist is not much of a spoiler.

@R P Shit. And I thought Slav videogames were depressing.

Yeah. Sh*t. Literally. 😂

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I think that that scene is where Leafie feels empathy for the weasel in every sense. She knows that if she were in the weasel's shoes, she'd kill for her baby too if that is what she had to do to keep it alive as that is all that matters. She was literally threatening to kill the weasel's kid to save hers, after all.

Same

Omg same

personally after being forewarned of whats ahead... I think I'd rather just pass on this movie. . . I... kinda HATE tear jerkers. . . well I mean... its not the kind of hate that would be because the movie is bad or anything.... its just I kinda HATE to be made to feel that way... its just complicated. . . .

@@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy I get'cha, it's not for everybody

Shes only evil to those that don't know the full story

She's still partly evil as she only eats live prey

exactly, like he said, the weasel wasn;t evil, just wanted to nurture her kids. She had to eat meat in order to provide for her babies

@@suvonhernandez843 Not exactly, they have no choice but to eat living beings as they are carnivores, their digestive tract cannot handle plant matter and there would be a digestive blockage if they even tried. There's a difference between torturing living things when it isn't necessary and torturing living things so your own species can thrive and keep existing. In nature it is all about balance, without carnivores there would hardly any plants and smaller animals wouldn't have shelter or places to sleep for the night, however if there are too many carnivores then the plants will over grow, causing many fires. So, the weasels aren't villains, they are just doing what nature and evolution intended for them in the food chain.

@@quillmorningstar8713 okay but what about the pile of perfectly good chicken corpses

I’m gonna reply because no one else did.

If my mother saw this movie and she made me watch it with her when I was a kid, we would both be crying as well.

10 yrs old me would probably laugh because I used to b a jerk I still am

I'm guessing they called her a weasel because eating dead carcasses that she didn't kill is... Quite deadly for them...

Most likely a lone yellow-throated marten, actually: in the absence of tigers those are Korea's top predator.

That's what I thought. A weasel is barely bigger than a rat, that little thing wouldn't be able to kill its own shadow. Maybe there is a subspecies bigger in size, or it's just an entirely different species.

Weasels are known for eating farm yard animals as well. If a weasel gets in a chicken coup it will eat the eggs, chick's, and adult chickens. Weasels are well known for killing things much larger than themselves and also killing more than they can eat. If a weasel has just eaten it will kill again if it has the opportunity. Pound for pound the weasel and its cousins are among the top predetors in the animal kingdom. You are right about the size though, but that was probably a stylized change to make it more imposing.

​@@Poty3108 Weasels can kill things way bigger than themselves they go after full grown rabbits and birds and take them down like it's nothing

*Hello darkness my old friend*

This film isnt dark. Man the west I swear, you guys push death away in your culture as something scary and dark when its simply a natural part of life. Just as in real life, in this film, the ending is beautiful and poetic. I love it so much, it is the perfect completion of the dance of life.

420 likes, lmao

@@ChrisJones-rd4wb your not wrong, this is why I prefer to watch movies not from the west of I can help it

Yup

for me its my familys male roasters try to bang our female ducks

Wth okay

I mean, they’re all still in the bird family, am I right?

Know that will prove to be usefull some day. I think...

o_o

Hi I’m a cockatiel

Sup, I'm a catfish.

@@imhomephobicdontshowmehous2478 sup

@@imhomephobicdontshowmehous2478 yo sup

@Seagull yah sure

And it’s a South Korean one to boot.

“Cough” “Cough” teen titans go....

@@holycowitsgabe515 no not really

And that's a fact

Depends on the cartoon I think Steven Universe is beautiful for example.

In the original novel it was very much the former, and I have no idea why the export version changed it.

Possibly

Maybe it was that and he realized that she may have died and come to maybe follow him a little before saying goodbye. Either that or it was Leafie going to heaven and experiencing what would happen if she could fly and follow her son. Either way this film seems more mature than most cartoons that tend to be made in the west. it tried to depict an actual situation that can happen in life, have anthropomorphic animals g through it and grow from it.

It really was, I think that stuck out to me the most. How damn lazy the english dub sounded by comparison. (Like, c'mon, have a little pride in your work.)

Yeah, like it sounded like legitimate terror, there was actually some shakiness in her voice. I wouldn't be surprised if you could visualize an almost disturbingly realistically terrified mother even without having seen that scene, assuming you either knew Korean or could just hear the line and see the translation on screen and nothing else.

I know right! That voice acting is amazing. She deserves more attention.

(cries in my little lamb)

Yeah i can confirm that

Yup. We suck.

Yep, totally agree

I'm about to be 18, yet someone told me that I'm an asshole. So yes, it's accurate

Yup we suck

It just hits so hard

Even in a review it made me tear up,god damn it’s just so powerful

The weasel's tears to me are tears of frustration (and bitter sweet gratitude) with her role in life as a predator mother and having to take up leafie's sacrifice just to feed her own offspring. (Moms, no matter the species, def don't want their kids to starve) Both have there own roles of existence to play out, and to reach that understanding was amazing in this film. Deep lessons all around. Such an amazing underrated film.

It was an unnecessary and depressive ending. The western version is much better imho. I love Happy Endings in good movies.

​@@shairaptor1865sorry bub but this was the original point of the story - two sides of a fence are the same in some ways In this case it's about being a mother and the sacrifices that come with it I understand happy endings are an easier pill to swallow but this is a story about hardship and those stories don't always have happy endings The word "unnecessary" was rather unnecessary in describing this film

Yeah... That's like gold top tier voice acting, I wish they had that in the english dub.

@@thethirdphase7726 Agreed

Her name is Kim Sang-hyeon, for anyone curious.

@Yanis Khaled I agree that the simplicity of children’s stories are better (just villain v hero), exspeically for young children. I been hating how everyone always pities or loves the villain becuase of some tragic backstory or being hot and funny. I swear, you can make that kind of a villain commit war crimes and still be likeable to some. But I believe that this film would work wonderfully for more mature children. They must learn eventually, and would get the moral of understanding others views.

That reminds me of some stories in Buddhism, I believe it might have an incluence on the story, specially that end... There's one story where a past reincarnation of the Buddha was a monk, and he decided to let himself get eaten by some lions/tigers/big cats cubs, so they won't starve. And there's another story about a monk that let his blood get sucked out by thousands of mosquitoes, also in other to feed them, as a sacrifice. The following life, he reincarnates as a king and ate through his life the reincarnations of those mosquitoes, that became ducks in other to feed him and compensate him. I can sense similar vibes, I love this kind of story

@Yanis Khaled Because life is so much more complicated than "good vs bad", it really saddens me that people are so desperate to infantalise kids these days. They're so much smarter than you give them credit for the and BEST thing you can do is teach your children what the real world is like. Unlike the whole "the world is so fair and good, you have nothing to worry about", you need to teach kids that isn't true at all. When you don't teach kids about life or death they become terrified of it and don't become critical and independent thinkers. The world isn't a happy perfect place where no one dies, never has been and never will be.

@Legend of the Blue Macerator Fuck mosquitos, I hate them too, I won't be qualified for Buddha Land so soon haha

i also have SIX DUCKS and they do the same lol

@@steampunklimbo omg I can’t imagine the amount of shit they must produce lol. Ducks are the stinkiest animal I’ve owned and I have pet rats lol.

@@kst8688 there is a stairs that leads down to the backyard, that's almost like a barn actually, they fill up the stairs with it, but that's the least since there is a grass I'm most places, so it's fine

So do we and it is do true😂

Ok......

Turkeys and peacocks also shouldn’t be kept with chickens (crushes them)

Plus when animals die their bodies decomposers and makes the soil rich, so that more plants and trees can grow.

Accepting worldviews that ultimately causes more suffering and are somewhat moral? Very much objectionable. Abolishing suffering through biological reprogramming (eg. gene manipulation to prevent suffering from being too extreme, achieving superintelligence, immortality and permanent state of contentment and downloadable memories) and completely changing the state of the ecosystem that is currently causing so much suffering to both predators and prey to extinction is an absolute must that humanity should try to achieve. The current system is a fucking mess and cruelly indifferent to most species, while humans are benefitting out of it. Suffering-Focused Ethics (Negative Utilitarianism) is very much the best normative morality out there and the society should start realizing it. (Negative Utilitarianism - Utilitarianism, but with higher moral priority to suffering than happiness).

@@boysteacher3818 I agree that the ecosystem is cruel. But how are we supposed to change it?

@@boysteacher3818 none of that makes sense to me tbh. Predators eating prey isn't bad. It's normal and necessary and humans have no right to interfere with the ways of nature any more than we already do.

Disney may have Bambi as an example for nature but nowadays they would rather sugar-coat their films & think that Nature is too complicated to go far out

Rusty _Gamer ohhhhh shiiiiiit! I realized it just now.

I like chicken wings

Yeah really

Big Smoke wants to eat chicken, no discussion.

I sure do love wild duck wings though.

Yeah, I thought he was going to talk about that scene as well.

What? Where can I see this particular scene?

i thought her beak was supposed to be raw or bloody from crushing the ribbon against stone.

@@net5978 It’s been a while, but I think it’s right before the duck race scene?

@@bradpotts1747 I mean I guess it could be both storywise? But the tip of a chicken’s beak doesn’t have blood vessels. XD *Science!!* 🌍

I've been trying to find this comment for the past 1o minutes lmao ikr

@@Basedhistoryenjoyer Lmao indeed, you are welcome

That chicken was hot for Wanderer. I think I remember she was a little disappointed when she found out he had a mate but not sure.

@@autobotrock4789 oop-

yeah she definitely had a lowkey crush on him in the film ngl

Fun fact, his voice actor, Toby Proctor, voiced Tuxedo Mask in the DiC dub of Sailor Moon

So my dad died as a kid so I’ve understood death from a young age but my cousins on the other hand were 8 ish at the time, and my sister was lying on the ground preying to sleep. My cousin started to poke her face and ask me what was wrong with my sister and I just said “oh she’s dead” and my sister stuck her tongue out I started to do the father son and the Holy Spirit praying thing Bc I was a little shit😭😭 and I was trying not to laugh along with my sister. but then my cousin asked what death was 💀and my aunt, oh my god she yelled and screamed at me, said how inappropriate and rude that was. And my aunt took me aside to a separate room to yell at me and I had no idea what I had done wrong. The next day she apologized and I think it’s cause my uncle had to remind her that my dads dead so I’m very desensitized to this shit💀 how did their 8 year olds daughter not know what death is, death isn’t just something that happens and it’s not just a part of life, it’s a cost of living and we all have to pay the price some day.

We need more Leafies and Cocos to confront death like this. ❤️❤️

That’s not how it use to be at all clone wars courage the cowardly dog teen Titans all pretty much had to deal with dying and death

@@samanthaswann5071 Exactly, I understand that kids are young, pure, and innocent so on tv we portray life to be happy sunshine and rainbows. But what we really need is a balance between joy and sadness, just so children could understand that life won't always be as great, but that there's better things to come over time.

yes lets put DEATH EVERYWHERE *eyeroll* Just let kids be kids, they will learn about the dark side of life early enough dude

I'm sorry but this makes 0 sense lmao

@@carolsnyman630 Death is often viewed as the ultimate. You die, everyone is sad because you’re not coming back, that’s it. In Leafie’s case, her death was a moment of realization and self-actualization (She no longer views the weasel as the antagonist). To recap the author: death isn’t an ending, but character growth.

@@currentlyonclaridryl ok I understand but the character cant grow anymore if she dies

@@currentlyonclaridryl there for making it a sad ending

@@carolsnyman630 but the character can't grow anymore, so there's no reason to keep them alive

Great, I'm back here a year later and I got myself in the feels again. Son of a duck...

A great example of adult animation (that isn’t just adult jokes and comedy *cough* south part, Rick and Marty, every other adult animation *cough* ) is arcane! A touching story

yes is non-disney is animation Studios in countries difference between of animation age kids teen and adult audience

Yes yes it does

You're one to talk.

@@sdsmuseumoftheweirdstripex6489 who me ?

@@trustmeimaplaguedoctor4967 are you really a plauge doctor?

@@shanechannel7066 absolutely

I also think the original is much more "eastern" ethically/philosophically. Where in the West you'd expect something more like "Death bad, life good", I'd expect a movie from someone with an "eastern" background to acknowledge that the plucky young protagonist getting away might spell starvation for a whole family of predators, and that their death could represent the coronation of a fulfilled life and becoming part of something greater.

I feel like its good fof movies to show that predators aren't evil and are just doing what they need to to survive, if movies are always saying how bad and evil predators are kids will grow up to have a misunderstanding of nature and that's not ok. #MoreRepForGoodCarnivors

@@dreamknight1776 Yeah, I'm sure you'd be rooting for the predators if you or a loved one were in its jaws.

Broooo, I forgot I about that movie

@@thatrecord5313 IKR

it's Korean

@@nobrang5146 "like"

This bring back tears....

yeah, they are like two sides of that same coin

I wouldn't necessarily say that she's the real star, rather that she's the most important character next to Leafie and Greenie. The story mainly centers on these two birds, but the Weasel, despite being the antagonist, goes through her character own arc, which is tied directly and beautifully with Leafie's.

This is why she is amazing

There was a huge pile of chickens she could have also ate... I feel they should have edited that out as it depreciates how little food there actually is out there.

@@fireemblemaddict128 Learn about weasels first before saying something about the dead chickens she could've ate, weasels are NOT scavengers they don't feed on already dead carcasses unless they're the ones who killed them.

huh where??!!

Disturbing?

Is not disturbing is a bit realistic.Predators had to eat.

Where's the disturbing part?

The scream was from the mom weasel

I noticed you :3

is there a English translation for the the book somewhere

@@antonioalbul00 Yes there is, just google it! You can probs find it easily

Duck Season (2017)

true

the therapist secretly recommending these movies to him so that he can come and continiously pay him the therapist: *stonks*

@@garbagecan6224 same, I dunno if I cried or not but I know I was shocked

Ohh damn, that really angre me

Same.

@Nairu Kawa I use ad blocker. I just personally like the easer accessibility with the RU-vid app.

@Nairu Kawa i be on my phone

Ironically, I got a McChicken ad

I mean, she deadass gave Wanderer the Nala eyes

The internet has got you covered

Reminded me of Wolf Children. I thought they were gonna have hybrid bird babies😂

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Omg, same!!!!

Ikr?

Saber did do Padak.

@@TheGuardDuck just because it’s deep doesn’t mean it’s cursed 😶

@@zephra1675 I didn't say Padak was cursed.

Aye I’m subbed to them too

Add spookyrice to that for reviewing disturbing gruesome films.