Which would you like to have, sir? Oh, you've never eaten mermaid. If it's your first experience with it, I would recommend slices of raw meat from the tail. They melt in your mouth. The mermaids we have are from Norwegian Sea. They are the best in the world.
Certainly, sir. That's fried scallops, a seaweed salad with tofu in it and slices of raw meat from the tail of mermaid.
Seriously, here are my thoughts on the movie, Mermaid.
I liked the introductory music. It made me feel as if I had been on a magic carpet destined for the fantasy world of the movie so as to explore there. The first half of the movie where the mermaid takes the boy around the marine world is filled with amusements. I especially liked the scene where the conch leads the couple into another part of the world. How wonderful Osamu Tezuka's imagination is. To talk a little bit about cinematography, I noticed that there are big clouds in the sky resembling real ones at the opening scene where you see the great ocean current, while the sky for the rest of the movie remains watercolor gray. I think the big clouds helps increase the greatness of the opening scene.
The movie mainly deals with the problem of liberty, with the boy believing in the mermaid and the government forcing him to stop believing in her. Along the story, he becomes unable to see the mermaid anymore, but at the end, after he releases the fish into the ocean, it transforms into the mermaid again. So the question arises: Which is it, a fish or mermaid? Is it actually a mermaid that only the boy can see or just a fish when the mermaid is merely his imagination? Well, after I watched the ending, I got the answer: It is the former. At the ending, you can see the two mermaids take a few leaps out of the surface of the ocean near the horizon if you watch closely. Who is the other one? It is the boy. Because he keeps on believing in her and himself, Not only he sees the mermaid, but also becomes a merman himself. This is Osamu Tezuka telling you that if you keep believing in things you do no matter what other people do to you, something will happen.
So which do you think it is? Tell me in your comments. I'll be looking forward to them. On that note, I'm gonna concentrate on finishing up the rest of sashimi of mermaid tail. I'll see you guys on Monday. Have a good Sunday. Bye.
