14歳の少年がジョン・レノンへインタビューをした際に録画した音声を元にできたショートフィルム 戦争と生きる力プログラム supported by 赤十字
2016年04月30日
Whenever I hear news of a terror attack carried out abroad, or of an air strike carried out on terrorists, I can’t help but wonder why the world can’t live in peace. At times like this I like to think of the words of our forerunners about peace. For example, the words of John Lennon. The short film, “I Met the Walrus” is perfect for this. The film adds images to the words of an impromptu interview carried out by Jerry, a 14 year old boy of John Lennon in 1969, when the Vietnam War had just started and immediately prior to John traveling to America.
In the interview, John says, “world peace depends on us/ we can complain that, ‘The war was started by the government’/we allowed it.” In this we can observe that he is taking a completely different stance to one where we are satisfied that “they” are the bad guys and “we” are the good guys. What we can take away from the film is that it is showing that John is saying I (we) am calling for peace but I (we) am also, at the same time, allowing the war. It is also fair to say that watching the film changes one’s idea of what constitutes “I”. I think that this is also shown by the fact that while Jerry (left) actually wore no glasses, in the film he is wearing round glasses like John (right).
Synopsis:In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room and convinced him to do interview for his school paper. Using the original recording, Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation.
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