Summary
The story starts with the boy seeing a fish as a mermaid. He plays with her and brings her home, but everyone says that it’s just a fish. He was brought to prison and tortured. He was able to get away so he ran to the to his mermaid, but he only saw a normal fish. He went to the sea with it and was able to see the mermaid again. They went into the sea playing together with the police watching.
Message
I think that this story gives out a message against the freedom of thought. The boy was tortured for claiming something that everyone else said wrong. In Japan people who had different ideas or thoughts were punished and the director of this lived in this period. Thus, I thought that the director of this short film wanted to let many people know about this problem and to let people understand that how people think is free.
Ending
I think at the ending the boy was no longer accepted in the society that he originally was in so he decided to go to somewhere else. Where his ideas were accepted.He went in to the sea heading further and further. When he decided to go the fish turned back into the mermaid. Also, as he went further away from the land they played together happily.
