i know i'm pretty late to write about this, but as i have already said in my last blog post, couldn't log in for a while. i tried to log on on thursday night, well technically it was friday, but i couldn't so i'm going to write about it now.
i know several Tezuka Osamu's animations, but this one didn't look like the other ones. but i liked it.
the characters in this film are the boy, a mermaid, the boy's parents, and the people from the government, military (?).
Setting: at a country where they don't allow free imagination.
Point Of View: third-person. but sometimes it was the boy's first-person point of view.
Conflict: person vs society.
Climax: i think the climax was when the boy couldn't see the mermaid anymore and only could see it as a fish.
Symbols: obviously the mermaid is a symbol. i think it's a symbol of imagination. at first, i thought the boy was a symbol of freedom,but then i remembered Mr. Armstrong saying "a person can not be a symbol", so i suppose he isn't.
Irony: the boy could no longer see the mermaid and he went to the sea to return it, but after he returns it everyone, including the boy, his parents and the whole army (government?), saw the mermaid.
Theme: to allow freedom. this film pretty much reminded me of the old germany and japan back during the WWⅡ.
so those are the 7 literally terms if the film "Mermaid".
