Good evening everyone!
Today was a tough day because I had class all day long, but I really had fun in the IE class discussing about the videos :)
Anyway, I would like to write about the short film "Mermaid" we watched last week.
First of all, let me start with a summary.
There was a boy who liked to daydream. He fell in love with an imaginary mermaid which transformed from a fish he saved, and decided to bring the mermaid home. From the boy's point of view, it was certainly a mermaid that he brang home, but from the other (adults) people's point of view, it's just a fish. In fact, freedom of imagination was not allowed in his country.
The boy's parents and the adults thought he was crazy and tried to fix and control his mind by locking the boy up in a place like a hospital. However, the boy never forgot about the mermaid.
He ran out of the hospital and went home to see the mermaid. However, the mermaid happened to be a fish. He was shocked and took the fish back to the sea. When he returned the fish to the ocean the fish returned to a mermaid, and the boy swam into the ocean, which actually meant he died.
This film firstly seemed very lovely, but after I finished watching it, I couldn't stop feeling depressed.
I think Tezuka wanted to say two main things in this film.
Firstly, I believe he wanted to say that children's imagination should be done freely by any child who wants to. It should not be repressed by any adult or any policy. It seemed that Tezuka wanted to say that it is the grown-ups that are destroying children's imaginations and dreams. That should not happen in this world, and everyone should have equal right to imagine or daydream.
Secondly, I think he wanted to say that if you imagine a dream to come true, it surely will. Nothing is impossible if you hope it to become true. I believe Tezuka wanted every child to not be afraid of having a dream that might seem weird to other people.
Well, I think this is enough. Sorry I wrote so long!
See you tomorrow! Good night guys :)
