"Oktapodi"
Story takes place in Greece, and main characters are two octopus. They love each other, but female octopus got caught. To save her, male octopus (the red one) chased after the truck. Right after saving her from the man, he was caught by a sea bird, and now, pink octopus is going to save him. Like Haruka, I think this story will continue on with some more similar situations.
What I thought about this movie is that even though main characters are octopus, we can all feel like them and enjoy story in their point of view. It was very interesting and the love between two of them was strong!
"Mermaid"
Story is about a boy who likes to daydream, and one day, he finds a fish, which he was imagining as mermaid. He went home with her, but when he introduced her to his parents, they only saw a fish in a tank. In his country, it was forbidden to imagine things so he was arrested and forced to change his minds about imagining about mermaid. When he saw the tank again, he could only see a fish. He was shocked by it, and at the end, boy goes into the water and never returns...
At first, I thought boy killed himself and the last scene in the film was just his imagination, but watching it for few times, I began to think the last part is telling us about how imagination is important in our lives. This boy gave up his life for imagining things and claiming what he thinks is true. Osamu Tezuka surely gave us a strong message about importance of freedom of speech through this film.
I read other people's post about the films, and I think there are more than one way to think about them and get a different messages from them :)
I loved both films!
