Summary
It is a story about a country that people are not allowed to think of imaginary things such as mermaid. The boy gets arrested and receives an education so that he would forget this imagination made. However, he escapes from the place and receives freedom.
Evaluation
I thought the education that was on the video is so much alike what Japan did during the war time. They changed peoples mind and beliefs by educating from their young age to their old age. Even though they got educated, I still think people had a mind to be free. I thought that this video is a symbol of people being free. The boy escapes from the prison to save his faith. On the other hand, I also thought that in the last scene of this video, the boy committed a suicide in order to be free. This made me think of the increasing number of suicide in Japan. Both of my thoughts it came out while I was watching this, is a dark part of Japan. Tezuka Osamu probably wanted to let us know not to turn our head away from the negative part of our country and save the liberal way of thinking.
Key words
Education suicide negative freedom
