Summary
This video is about a boy saving a fish which turns out to be a mermaid in his imagination. He has a fun time playing with the mermaid and takes her back home where his family see it as an ordinary fish. He gets arrested for his imagination and forced to think in the real world.
Evaluation
At first, I couldn’t get the theme and what Tezuka Osamu was trying to say. I watched it again, I think he is trying to abstractly satirize the world especially Japan in the 1960s. Maybe, he was trying to tell us that Japan needs to change in the way of thinking and be more creative. In 1964, the first Tokyo Olympic has held. After the Olympics, Japan experienced cultural exchange and new ways of thinking came in to Japan. Before, I think Japan preferred everyone thinking the same way and that the nail that sticks out should get hammered down. Another thought that came up in my mind was that, since Tezuka Osamu himself is a very creative man, he felt very tight and wanted to be more open-minded. Now, Japan is gradually excepting the unique, but I think there still is a current of being old minded. I think Tezuka Osamu is trying to tell young people to be more open minded, to be more imaginative, and be unique.
Keywords
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down
Open minded
imaginative
