I watched a
short movie which was produced by Shaun Tan during IE class. I’ve never checked
it before, so I really enjoyed and also I felt something beyond my expression.
I want everyone to know that movie because it gives us something important
thing we tend to forget in our daily life.
Please let me
introduce the rough story. It began when a boy, who were the main character of
that video, had found “the thing” on the beach. “The thing” looked like quite strange
and standing all alone because no one didn’t care about it and even notice it.
He felt it pity and decided to take “the thing” to his home. However, his
parents didn’t accept it and told him to return to the former place. After
that, he tried to put “the thing” to a company which was on the TV. When he
asked the company to keep it, he was talked to by tiny creature. According to
him (or her?), it recommended him to deposit “the thing” to the other place,
and gave him a key. He and “the thing” arrived the designated place and the
time to say good-bye had come. The place was full of strange creature, but they
seemed to have fun. Even now, he sometimes think about “the thing”.
I guessed Shaun
Tan wanted us to look out carefully if there were any “lost things” around us. The
“thing” that was lost might be “the mind to look around yourself”, I think.
Almost all of people are too busy doing various stuff to care about other
things, recently. What is worse, we cannot remember even the fact that we are
lost. I think this is very sad. The older we getting, the more things we’re
forgetting. This is the natural thing, but I think we can make an effort to
keep our important memories in our mind. I want to do it because it may be
really precious memory in my whole life.
