Good morning everyone, it's raining cats and dogs, isn't it?
( I've never used this idiom before,lol)
Anyways, today I'd like to talk (or type) about my interpretations on the film, Mermaid, which we saw last week in IE.
First of all, I thought the film was strange. There was no dialogue, only background music, or music that goes with the movement, but strangely I was able to understand the main characters feelings, or what the film was trying to say.
A boy, who loves to daydream, lived in a place where fantasy was forbidden. One day at the beach, he saw a fish, which then turned into a mermaid. He brought the mermaid home, to show his parents. Unfortunately his parents only saw a fish in an enormous tank. He was arrested for this "imagination" and was punished, but he couldn't forget about the mermaid at all. So he was forced to read books, which made him forget about the mermaid. The boy was so shocked he couldn't remember the mermaid, so he ran away, to his house, where the "mermaid" is. Sadly, when he got to his house and saw the tank, all he saw was a small fish, and nothing else. There was no mermaid. The boy reluctantly decides to free the fish, so he heads to the beach. He forgot the police were right behind him (because he ran away), but it didn't matter. He freed the fish and went into the water with it. The next thing you know, there were two mermaids swimming in the ocean.
I think that Osamu Tezuka was trying to tell us, imagination has no limits, but fantasy is different from reality. Hmm... it's hard! It's hard to try to understand a movie with no words.
Well, I guess that's my interpretation. I've got to go now, so good-bye!
Thanks for reading, and I'll see some of you guys tomorrow♪
