Post by Hector on Mar 29, 2019 22:07:21 GMT
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A Romano Scarpa's story that has nothing to do with classic Disney heroes. The main character is Codino, an anthropomorphic sea
horse that lives in an underwater city of anthropomorphic sea creatures. Everybody considers him a good for nothing daydreamer,
but maybe he's actually just a romantic soul that cannot fit with society. Like me! I identified like hell with this character.
Something interesting I noticed was that Codino's old classmates all were taller than him. I don't know whether this is something
symbolic that denotes his calssmates became adults in heart whereas Codino remained a child. Or maybe I'm thinking too much.
Now, about the main plot, Codino accidentally spots a prehistoric fish whose anthropomorphism is cavemen level. Nobody believes
him, so he decides to descend to the abyss (where he saw the aforementioned fish going) and meet him and his race. The scenes
where he encounters the perils of the abyss and escapes barely every time (the peak being the plesiosaurus ride) are simply
spectacular.
Codino convinces a prehistoric family to let him take their little child to his city. The way he breaks through the language barrier
to communicate with them is not very plausible, but, hey, who said everything has to be plausible in a charming fairytale like this
one?
The final part of the story is a sharp contrast between Codino's sensitivity and his peers' selfishness; they want to keep the
prehistoric child imprisoned and use it as a lab rat. Once more, Codino's objections are treated as nonsense. Like the times I'm
laughed at and called problematic or even threatened whenever I ask someone to release their caged birds or that time my mom
went mad because I let a mosquito bite me and went ahead to kill the mosquito and blame my father's family for me being like
that, the same way my father usually blames my mother's family for the exact same thing! I understand you Codino; you and I
are simply too romantic for normal society.
Codino releases the kid. Or at least that's what he tries to do before finding out the kid is like super strong and can break free
of the cage himself (which makes you wonder why he didn't do so in the first place). Codino's line: 'Now I feel more of a hero
than when I brought the child to the city,' is heartwarming.
The only thing that could use some improvement is the ending, when Codino merely states he will go to live in the Abyss someday
and then returns home. I think it would be better if he had gone to the abyss with his new friend right away.
The fact that all those characters were used for one story only is part of that story's beauty IMO.
Rating: 9/10