Character
A boy, fish, mermaid, police, and the
citizens
Setting
The film was made in 1964, and the time was
when people were not aloud to make their imaginations.
What do the characters want?
The boy wants to let people know that he
can see a mermaid. But the police and the people around him want to stop his imagination.
What is the conflict?
The conflict is that his imagination gets
bigger and bigger so the police tortures him and makes him to stop thinking
about the mermaid.
What is real and what is fantasy?
What I think is, imaging and thinking about
what other people don’t think is real. We can have our own imagination and it
should be free to do so. However the scene when the boy swims in the sea with
the mermaid was fantasy.
Ending
Although he got tortured and was forced to
forget about the mermaid, he was unable to forget it and stop thinking about
it, he himself turned into a mermaid. I think they moved to another place where
they could be accepted.
Theme
I think there’s two things that Tezuka
Osamu what to tell us. First, there are many ways to have our own imagination
and the way we look at thing has to be more valued. The second is not to be
swayed by what other people say. It’s important to have our own way of
thinking.
