AnimeMania October 2, 2020 Share October 2, 2020 A disgruntled fisherman makes the catch of a lifetime. Link to comment
tennisgurl October 20, 2020 Share October 20, 2020 This live action remake of The Little Mermaid is pretty weird... So like in the two episodes set in Louisiana, this one is connected to another episode, specifically to the New York episode, the aftermath of the oil spill the tycoon was involved in, and its affects on the fishermen. And the local mermaid population. I was a bit confused by this one, so the fisherman caught the mermaid, kept her in the house until the water got better, then she showed up looking human? Then they hooked up, went to the ocean, and she ate him? I liked this one, felt very dark fairytale, but some of the dreamlike quality made the sequence of events a bit hard to follow. Link to comment
Black Knight October 21, 2020 Share October 21, 2020 8 hours ago, tennisgurl said: I was a bit confused by this one, so the fisherman caught the mermaid, kept her in the house until the water got better, then she showed up looking human? Then they hooked up, went to the ocean, and she ate him? That was mostly my take on it, except that he hadn't taken her back to the water yet (the story takes place in a very short time frame, so the water wasn't yet better - when the guys show up at his house, they're talking about how there's nothing to catch). She just had the power to teleport herself from the water tank and take on human form. He should have done a little less bragging about all the fish he had taken out of the ocean, recognizing that she's a creature of the sea. When he brought up money again at the end, I knew that was it for him. I think she was curious about what manner of man he was, was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and get to know him since he had saved her, and ultimately decided he wasn't different enough from other fishermen. Perhaps it's just supposed to be a variation on the scorpion and the frog - the frog taking the scorpion across the river, the scorpion stinging the frog, and when the frog asks why, replying because it's a scorpion. It was obviously in the mermaid's nature to be vicious. But all the same, she didn't have to spend any time getting to know him, so I think it's more complex than that. From the POV of a creature of the sea, he's a monster, taking all this fish he cannot possibly eat himself, for money. He also exhibited some domineering ("bow to me!") and possessive ("MY CATCH!") traits towards her, as if he didn't quite see her as someone with agency. Consequently, to her he's fair eating. 1 Link to comment
bilgistic October 21, 2020 Share October 21, 2020 I thought her appearing to the fisherman as human was all his imagination, either as her beguiling him—just as she eventually lures him into the tank—or just his wishful thinking. Link to comment
Starchild October 27, 2020 Share October 27, 2020 On 10/20/2020 at 10:31 PM, bilgistic said: I thought her appearing to the fisherman as human was all his imagination, either as her beguiling him—just as she eventually lures him into the tank—or just his wishful thinking. This was my take on it as well. Either of those options could work. But I don't think she literally became human. Link to comment
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