I completely forgot my blog homework by now!! So I’ll talk about two short films from now on.
Mermaid
This was a story about a boy playing near the sea and a fish. He played with it, but suddenly the fish changed a mermaid and he decided to take her to his home, but his parents could see her as a not mermaid but a fish. His country did not allow that people thought everything freely, so he was arrested because he told them a fantasy and he finally forgot her. However at the climax, when he put her back to the sea, he could see a fish as a mermaid again and they disappeared into the sea.
Aquarius
It was more difficult for me to understand about the story than Mermaid(><)
A woman lived in a certain world that people could choose which they lived as a human or a dolphin and she wanted to live as the latter. She had big equipment like water tank to train for living in the sea. At the moment, a dying man suddenly appeared in front of her, and she came up with putting him into water and then he overcame more and more and became a dolphin (but I don’t know why)! At the end, they lived in the sea together as a dolphin.
These two short films tell us the importance of freedom of thinking and of keeping our own dream. As we are getting older, we tend to lose our dream and heart of believing a kind of fantasy, but those things can bring us the power to stick to our own opinion without plaything of society around us. And I also thought those two story are resemble because “sea” described the symbol of freedom in the stories and at the end they were finally liberated from society robbed of their freedom and hope.
There are so many things to be good for us in both films I think.
