Summary
In a county where you weren’t allowed to daydream, a boy saw a fish as a mermaid. He was sent to facility where they were forced to see the reality. When he ran away from the facility, he couldn’t see the fish he caught as a mermaid, and took the fish back to the ocean. When the boy let the fish go, the fish became a mermaid, and the boy and the mermaid swam far away until you could no longer see them.
Evaluation
I think this story has a political message to it. I don’t know much about Japanese history, but after World War II, Japan was trying to fit in with the other cultures, and didn’t listen to what the Japanese citizens actually wanted. In this movie I think the boy represents the Japanese citizens. The boy who was made to think the way the politicians thought, was trapped only to the reality, not the dream. The one way people could dream, made everyone the same person, without a particular personality. After the boy ran away with the mermaid, made me think that the mermaid(the way the boy thought) was actually the correct way to think, not the fish(the politicians thought). I think this kind of thinking appears in the book “ferenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. We can say what we want and do what we want now, but we can’t take that For granted.
