Characters : A boy and a fish which appeared to be a mermaid after he let it go into the sea. In the middle of the story, there come judges(?) and the police.
In the country, it seems to have a sort of restriction of imagination, and when the boy carried the mermaid home and release her into the aquarium, his parents(?) saw nothing but a little fish because the figure of the mermaid was only in the boy's head.
He went to court and the examiners around him asked him which fish he saw exactly in his eyes. Of course, none of them. What he had seen was the mermaid itself. But people never understood him and they shut him in a small prison.
He struggled to forget about the mermaid and could never stop remembering her. After a while, he started to think of researching on the mermaid with the use of so many reference books. But at last, he realized that no mermaid existed in the world and he himself couldn't see her as he could before.
Being at loss, he went to the sea again where he first met the mermaid. People were all chasing him from behind. But then the mermaid came alive as real, swimming away to the offing of the sea. (I wonder what became of the boy!)
Well, the lesson I think I've learned from this is that WE'RE ALL FREE TO IMAGINE ANYTHING. As in the film, when you dream of something, it will surely come true. We may stop dreaming if we are not allowed to conceive of things we've never done or seen before.
This movie reminded me a bit of John Lennon because of his famous song.
KU
