My idea about the movie "Mermaid"
Character: A boy who likes imagining things, A Fish(Mermaid)
Setting: 1940's(before World War Ⅱ broke out), in a country where imagination is illegal.
Conflict: The boy loved the mermaid that he created in his mind, but as it was illegal, the government tried to stop him doing it.
Climax: When he ran away from the prizon and eascaped to the sea.
Theme: The restriction of human rights during the war time.
My critique:
The part that his parents brought him to police shocked me. I guess this movie wants to tells us how the human rights were lightened in war time. Even the parents chose not to advocate his son but to obey the rules made by government, which is that imagination was prohibited. The last scene, the boy was swimming away with his imaginary mermaid, was not imagination. His imagination became true. Tezuka wanted to say that miracle really does happen. As this story is a fiction, he really wanted to respect the power of imagination and its huge influence.
