boy, mermaid
ー Summary
The story takes place in country where imagining is prohibited. The boy saves a fish which turns into a mermaid. He brings her back home but his parents won't believe him that he brought home a mermaid because all they could see was a fish. He gets caught, tortured and brainwashed which eventually made him forget about the mermaid. However, when he brought the fish back to the ocean, the fish turned into a mermaid again.
ー Ending
I think he killed himself when he brought the fish back to the ocean. So I guess the last part of the story was his imagination in heaven.
ー Message
I think this story is mainly about totalitarianism. Maybe the film-makers were trying to tell us the importance of creative freedom and imagination which were beginning to disappear because of the controlled educational system and the oppressive government in that time.
