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Friday Fun Link Disturbing Dystopian Vision

Jesse Walker | 8.20.2010 5:23 PM

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Mermaid (Osamu Tezuka, 1964):

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    I liked this better the first time I saw it, when it was the movie Splash.

  2. Mainer   15 years ago

    THREADJACK.

    Remember that pinup calendar with the female Czech politicians. I got one. Just sayin...

  3. Apologetic California   15 years ago

    Percussions?

  4. Anonymous   15 years ago

    Fish tits...

  5. prolefeed   15 years ago

    Ten second sound bite synopsis? Don't have 8+ minutes to spend watching this.

  6. Szasz   15 years ago

    "In my opinion, Donaldson did not have a constitutional right to treatment, but he did have a constitutional right to his delusions".

  7. SIV   15 years ago

    Mermaids at the top of the blog
    scroll down for some torture.

    (you might need to leave the first page)

  8. Robert   15 years ago

    Was I the only one who was LOL throughout the re-education passage?

    1. Anonymous   15 years ago

      I liked the tickler.

    2. Jeffersonian   15 years ago

      Stanley Kubrick did that part much better.

  9. SxCx   15 years ago

    If Obama had his way...!

  10. Some dude   15 years ago

    There... are... FOUR... lights!

  11. Joshua Corning   15 years ago

    Sooo...

    A crazy teenager sees Mermaids his parents and the state try to treat his delusion but ultimately it is ineffective and he drowns himself...

    Also is there a cultural thing here?

    Do daydreams and insanity have a closer meaning in japan then in western cultures?

    1. Yonemoto   15 years ago

      Japanese people have no soul, so no.

  12. orrible racist   15 years ago

    Was is it with Japanese artists and seafood fucking?

  13. Cyto   15 years ago

    Kinda reminded me of my public school experience.

  14. rac   15 years ago

    Debussy rocks.

  15. Inkblots   15 years ago

    Simply beautiful.

  16. Adonisus   15 years ago

    Ah, Osamu Tezuka.

    Cartoonist, graphic novelist, animator, painter, science fiction writer, actor, and sculptor extrordinaire.

    His experimental shorts are particularly good. He made quite a few in his career.

  17. Kolohe   15 years ago

    That was one of the longer United Airlines commercials I have seen.

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