Friday Fun Link Disturbing Dystopian Vision

Mermaid (Osamu Tezuka, 1964):

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

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

[Mainer]

THREADJACK.

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

[Apologetic California]

Percussions?

[Anonymous]

Fish tits...

[prolefeed]

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

[Szasz]

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

[SIV]

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

(you might need to leave the first page)

[Robert]

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

[Anonymous]

I liked the tickler.

[Jeffersonian]

Stanley Kubrick did that part much better.

[SxCx]

If Obama had his way...!

[Some dude]

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

[Joshua Corning]

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?

[Yonemoto]

Japanese people have no soul, so no.

[orrible racist]

Was is it with Japanese artists and seafood fucking?

[Cyto]

Kinda reminded me of my public school experience.

[rac]

Debussy rocks.

[Inkblots]

Simply beautiful.

[Adonisus]

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.

[Kolohe]

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